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Besides tliese qualities. Mr. Day has one other, not so conspieuous to tlie outside publie but e(iually important in the work of Yale or any other great university. He is essentially a coojierative man. In the divergencies of opinion between differ- ent faculties and diti ' erent men, Mr. Day has an extraordinary power of preventing open conflict and ultimately producing cordial harmony. In the work of the central offices at Woodbridge Hall, where the duties of President, Secretary, and Treasurer overlap, he is always on hand to take his full share of authority, and never insistent on assuming more than his share. To me personalh ' , the quality that stands out most prominently in Cieorge Parmly Day is not his sagacity as an investor, nor his able conduct of the University Press, nor his felicity in the preparation of reports and speeches, great as all these are; but the fact that he is such a delightful man to meet day by day, as fellow laborer in a common work. Artiur T. Hadley.

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Santur and Pot Pourri GEORGE PARMLY DAY WHEN LEE jMcCLUNG k-ft us to take the treasurership of the United States, it seemed as if it would be impossible to fill liis place. A vigorous worker, an effective organizer, and a man of sound business judgment, Mr. IcClung had rendered eminent service to Yale for five years and had set a iiigh standard for the man who should follow him. It was therefore a matter of exceptional good fortune to find a successor with the training and the ability to carry on the lines of work that Mr. McClung had so successfully started, and to add others equally important. Mr. Day had been fitted by his previous vocation for his position as Treasurer of Yale University. He had been a member of a financial house that had had to deal with large business affairs. He knew investments ; he understood accounts. He had also been singularly well fitted for his duties by avocations outside of his regular business. The Treasurer of Yale is something more than a treasurer. He has charge of a vast educational equipment, of whose uses he must know some- thing. He has to deal with a body of alumni, to whom he must present Yale ' s ideals and plans with a full understanding of their scope. In both these respects, Mr. Day was well equipped for the oflice both by nature and by training. For some years before he took the treasurership he had been occujiied in building up the Yale University Press. In work of this kind he became familiar with the hardest administrative problem that meets a Yale Treasurer — the problem of stimulating high intellectual ideals with inadequate pecuniary means. He had at the same time, through his tastes and his studies, been developing a literary style which stands him in good stead as a speaker on the numerous occasions on wliich the Yale Treas- urer is called upon to represent the University and tell of its aims and policies. For the triple duties of treasurer, comptroller, and official representative of the Uni- versity, it would have been Iiard indeed to find another man so well ])repared.

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Uiatinrr anft JJnt IJintrri luturriiitii (EaUniiiar lill4-15 21 S.-pt n.l..r .Moiul.iv . 1 October Thursday 19 Oc-toluT Monday . 11) Xiivcmber Monday . 23 November Wednesday 27 November Friday 18 December Friday . Vale t ' cirpiiratioii Meeting. First Term begins, 2.00 p.m. Yale Corporation Meeting. Yale Cor])oration Meeting. Thanksgiving Recess begins, 1.20 p.m. Thanksgiving Recess ends, 8.00 a.m. Christmas Recess begins, 1.20 p.m. 1915 5 January 18 January 29 January 11 February 15 February 15 March 31 March 8 April 19 . pril IT May 5 June 7 June 7 June H June Ifi June 20 June 21 June 21 June 21 June 22 June 23 June 23 June Tuesday . Monday . Friday Thursday Monday . Monday . Wednesday Thursday Monday . Monday . Saturday Monday . Monday . Monday . Wednesday Sunday . Monday . Monday . Monday . Tuesday . Wednesday Wednesday liitttrr Haration Christmas Recess ends, 8.00 a.m. Yale Corporation Meeting. Mid-year Examinations in the College begin, 8.45 a.m. Second Term begins, 8.00 a.m. Yale Corporation Meeting. Yale Corporation Meeting. Easter Recess begins, 1.20 p.m. Easter Recess ends, 8.00 a.m. Yale Corporation Meeting. Yale Corporation Meeting. College Recitations close, 1.20 p.m. Examinations in the College begin, 8.45 a.m. Anniversary of the School of Religion. Anniversary of the School of the Fine Arts. Second Term ends. Baccalaureate Sermon. College Class-Day Exercises. Anniversary of the Law School. Yale Corporation Meeting. Anniversary Meeting of the Alumni. Commencement. Examinations for Admission to Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School begin, 8.30 a.m. 24 September Friday 30 September 17 December Thursday Friday ummpr Uaratton Examinations for Admission to Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School begin, 8.30 a.m. First Term begins, 2.00 p.m. Christmas Recess begins, 1.20 p.m.