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Yale College sent a telegram to Joseph Twichell informing him that the corporation of Yale College had elected him as a trustee.
According to the Courant, his election “will be very acceptable to the graduates, as Mr. Twichell was the originator of the Woolsey fund movement.”
Twichell will resign from the Yale Corporation on January 20, 1914.
From the telegram: “You have been elected to take a seat among the fellows of this institution. Will you put on a black coat and come down?”
According to a December 12, 1871 article in the New York Times, the Woolsey Fund was to be a $500,000 fund that would be placed at the disposal of Yale College. It was named for Theodore Woolsey, was the tenth president of Yale. As the Times noted, the fund was needed because “Yale College has never been rich.”
Unattributed. “Hartford and vicinity,” Hartford Daily Courant, June 25, 1874, page 2.
Unattributed. “The Woolsey Fund of Yale College,” New York Times, December 12, 1871, page 4.
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