upon 576 candidates, of whom 249 received the degree of A. B. Large gifts were made to the university in connection with the bicentennial celebration.

Legislative Session.-The General Assembly met Jan. 9, and adjourned June 17. In the Senate were 22 Republicans and 2 Democrats; in the House, 201 Republicans, 53 Democrats, and 1 Independent. Henry Roberts was president pro tem. of the Senate, and John H. Light was Speaker of the House.

Nearly 2,000 measures came before the Legislature; fewer than half were passed, and those were largely incorporations and other private bills. The public acts numbered 184. In 1899 there were 230.

Among the important acts were the resolutions submitting to vote the question of holding a convention for revising the Constitution and also for submitting two amendments, which were passed to their second stage. One was for the election of State officers by plurality vote. The other was to permit the senatorial districts to be increased to 36. These were carried at the October election.

The amendment proposing a change of town representation failed in the House by a vote of 145 nays to 61 yeas, and is left to the constitutional convention with certain restrictions as to the action of that body.

Some new State offices were created: A tax commissioner, with salary of $3,000, the incumbent to be ex officio member of the Board of Equalization; a forester, to be appointed by the Board of Control of the experiment station, and authorized to buy lands for State parks suitable for growing pine and chestnut, at not more than $4 an acre; a fire marshal, to be appointed by the Governor to serve four years from July 1, 1901, future appointments to the office to be subject to approval of the Senate; a board of votingmachine commissioners; a board of examiners for barbers; an entomologist, to be appointed by the experiment station from the staff. The number of Superior Court judges was increased from 13 to 14. Appointment of truant officers was provided for. The Labor Commissioner was authorized to appoint superintendents for 5 free public employment bureaus; the annual expenses of each bureau are limited to $2,000; all private employment offices are to be under the supervision of the commissioner.

An important measure was the corporation act, consisting of 63 sections.

A new law for taxation of corporations is designed to make that more equitable. Another measure was a caucus law designed to prevent the packing of caucuses. Voters must be registered before taking part in primaries, declaring their party preferences.

A new law for the collection of poll and military commutation taxes provides that when any person shall refuse or neglect to pay any poll or military tax assessed against him, he may be sent to jail until the tax, interest, and costs are paid.

A law in regard to itinerant venders calls for a deposit of $500 with the Treasurer, a State license fee of $100, and a local fee of $25.

The laws of inheritance were so changed that parents inherit before brothers and sisters.

Automobiles must not go faster than 12 miles an hour within city limits, or 15 miles without. Rubber-tired vehicles must show lights at night, unless accidentally prevented. Provision is made for construction and maintenance of bicycle-paths. The State is entitled to one more member of Congress according to the census and the Federal

apportionment. The fifth representative will be a Congressman-at-Large.

Indeterminate sentences of State prison convicts were provided for.

A new general fish and game law was passed, bringing together the many statutes on the subject, making some changes in the closed season and some new provisions. Other enactments were:

Prohibiting the committing of any boy under ten to the School for Boys at Meriden, except for an offense punishable by imprisonment at the State prison.

Making the maximum penalty for kidnaping, etc., thirty years' imprisonment.

Providing a maximum penalty of $200 for keeping a billiard-table or slot-machine for purposes of lottery or gaming.

Providing that teaching in schools on the effects of alcohol and narcotics shall be given only to grades above the third. Neglect of such teaching shall be cause for withholding school money by the Comptroller.

Providing that fathers and mothers shall be joint guardians of their minor children; but a court may appoint either parent sole guardian, or other than a parent as guardian.

Making the license laws applicable to the sale of candies containing a liquor or sirup which has more than 1 per cent. of alcohol.

Forbidding contractors, foremen, etc., to receive payment of any kind for furnishing employment to any person.

Prohibiting the use in factories of stained, painted, or corrugated glass injurious to the eyes of workmen.

Requiring manufacturers employing persons under sixteen to procure and keep on file certificates of the age of all such.

Increasing the amount that may be used for the improvement of highways in one year from $175,000 to $225,000, and appropriating $450,000 for the next two years.

Among the appropriations, the amount of which was very large and beyond the limit of the revenue, were the following: $25,000 for a model school at the State Normal School; $52,000 for education of the deaf and dumb; $18,000 for completing the normal school at Willimantic; $22,500 to the Litchfield County hospital, $10,000 to the Waterbury hospital, $6,000 to the DayKimball Hospital; $165,000 for completing the general dining-room at the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane; $8,000 to Stamford hospital; $10,000 to St. Francis hospital; $25,000 to the Hartford hospital to build an experimental hospital for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis; $96,000 for hospitals at Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Danbury, Meriden, New London, and Norwich; $22,000 for the State Library; $16,000 for electric lighting of the Capitol building and grounds; $450,000 for good roads; $5,500 for School for Imbeciles for filtration bed; $22,500 for transportation of the General Assembly and its officers; $60,000 for enlargement of the State prison; $811,400 for judicial expenses for two years; $30,000 to pay the commission on revision of the statutes; $309,775 for military expenses; $11,000 for Fitch's Home for Soldiers; $180,000 for the support of sick, wounded, and disabled soldiers, sailors, and marines for two years, and $15,000 for deficiency for appropriation for the care of sick and wounded soldiers; $20,500 to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the care of children in temporary homes; $50,000 for an armory at Norwich; $1,181,700 for education; $1,607,000 for civil purposes, including the insane

hospital, School for Boys, county jails, care of Capitol, etc.; $78,500 for State officers, librarians, Board of Education and Commissioner of School Fund.

Constitutional Convention. The question submitted to vote of the people in October was decided in favor of a convention for revising the Constitution, by a vote of 47,317 to 26,745. At the same time the two proposed amendments were voted upon and carried, the one for elections by plurality, by a vote of 49,887 to 14,196, and the other for permitting increase in the number of senatorial districts by 42,804 to 17,811. Delegates to the convention were elected in November-one for each town-168 in all. The number of Republicans elected was 123; Democrats, 45. Of these, 38 were elected by non-partizan vote. convention met in January, 1902.

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Yale's Bicentennial. The university celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of its founding Oct. 20-23. Delegates were present representing the colleges and universities of America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The celebration opened Sunday, Oct. 20, with sermons and addresses by the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, the Rev. Dr. Newman Smyth, the Rev. Joseph Anderson, the Rev. W. W. Battershall, and the Rev. Dr. George P. Fisher. On Monday addresses were made by Thomas Thatcher and W. H. Welch, and President Hadley gave the address of welcome to guests, which was followed by responses of congratulation. In the evening of Monday took place the torchlight procession of graduates and students, which is described as most picturesque and unique. "First came the illumination of the green, when 5,000 lights were turned on and the crowd gasped 'Oh! But this was only the beginning. Presently the 7,000 lights on the campus, the orange-colored lanterns that hemmed the dormitories, the hundreds of electric bulbs that faced Vanderbilt Hall, the scores of electric lights on the Phelps gateway, the main entrance to the campus during the bicentennial festivities, and the 1,000 other lights on the old quadrangle started into life. Bands played, students cheered, and gray-headed men forgot they were not boys. The parade started promptly through the Phelps Gate, when a great flare of red fire behind Welch Hall announced that the procession was in motion. Headed by the grand marshal, the line of fire proceeded through College and Chapel Streets to Church Street, where it turned to the left and passed the reviewing stand.

"The first section in the second division were the Indians, who were represented by the class of 1902, academics. Their costumes consisted of long, baggy trousers of brown, with red trimmings, bright-red jackets, and a headgear of feathers.

"A company of colonial warriors composed the second section, impersonated by the class of 1902. Their costumes consisted of short trousers of light brown, with long brown stockings, a short coat of the same material, trimmed with white collar and cuffs and a belt of white with a huge steel buckle.

fourth section were of the Beau Brummel design, consisting of bright-yellow waistcoat, purple swallowtail coat, with large brass buttons, gray trousers, and a huge beaver hat of tan color with yellow band. The boys wore with this costume white ruffled shirts of the style of those days.

"In the fifth section were the academic sophomores, who were gowned as sailors, with entire costumes of white, trimmed with straps of blue and blue sashes. All the freshmen of the university were Rough Riders in the parade, and as a body of several hundred they made a great showing.

The students of the medical school, in green caps and gowns; the divinity men, in costumes of red; the members of the law school department, in purple; the Japanese students, in pink; and the art and forest school students as Dominican monks, formed the seventh division in this tremendous aggregation of Yale undergraduates.

The youngest alumni of Yale, members of the class of 1901, headed the procession of Yale graduates, who composed, with the visiting delegates, the third division. As Filipinos, in gowns of brown trimmed with red and large brown hats, they created no end of fun along the line of march.

The visiting delegations of students from Harvard, Princeton, Trinity, and Wesleyan, in academic gowns of their college colors, were followed by the fourth division of the great parade. consisting of the alumni of the university. All wore caps and gowns of the lightest pale blue; and among the 3,500 alumni in line there were members of every class from 1853 to 1901. The prominent features of the parade were the floats and transparencies."

Tuesday morning was dedicated the memorial gateway, an entrance to the campus between Welch and Osborne halls, erected by the class of 1896 in memory of Ward Cheney and Gerard M. Ives, two members of that class who lost their lives in the Spanish-American War. In the forenoon were addresses by Cyrus Northrop, LL. D., and Daniel C. Gilman, LL. D.; in the afternoon, football games and a choral performance; in the evening, a dramatic entertainment by students. Wednesday morning occurred the commemoration service, an address by Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme Court, and a poem by Edmund Clarence Stedman, LL. D. In the afternoon a concert was given, followed by the dedication of Woodbridge Hall, with an address by Donald G. Mitchell, LL. D., and a farewell reception by the president.

President Hadley. The president of Yale University, Arthur Twining Hadley, is the son of James Hadley (1821-1872), who from 1851 was Professor of Greek in that institution and was an eminent philologist. The son was born in New Haven, April 23, 1856, was graduated at Yale in 1876, and then studied in Berlin. In 1879 he was appointed a tutor in Yale, and in 1886 Professor of Political Science there. He became president of the university May 25, 1899. He has made a special study of railroads, and has written much on economic subjects. His publications include: Railroad Transportation (1885); Connecticut Labor Reports (1855-'56); An Account of the Relations between Private Property and Public Wel fare (1896); and Report on the System of Weekly Payments.

Norwalk.-On Sept. 11 the town of Norwalk celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniver sary of its existence as a town, with music. addresses by Rev. A. F. Beard and United States Senator Ŏ. H. Platt, and a poem by the Rev. Dr.