The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-06-27
CENTENNIAL GRAFTON AT LAFAYETTE
Classical Harmony Within the
Academic Shades Of VasSar.
CLASS DAY AT PRINCETON.
Distribution of Prizes at St Francis
Xavier College.
EXERCISES AT LA SALE INSTITUTE.
YALE COLLEGE.


PREPARATIONS FOR THE CLOSING EXERCISES
THE COMMENCEMENT APPoINTMxNTs--THE
OFFICIAL PRoGRAMME,a
NEw HAVEN, Juno %, 1875
The baccalaureate sermon has been delivered Now
somes, q the OF battle pause That is APP
parent pause. The senior Is coseted, with the thcr
nometer indicating exasperatng pitch OF sutriness
touching up his GRAFTON studying the proper twist to
produce excruciating effect on his nocktc.
The parents OF the students arriving daily and
The hotels arc filling up, and, Notwithstanding hard
Zines. the rush bids far to be during years
financially prosperous II there is lull there Is
enough the students and friends TO talk about This
afternoon thcrc ball game between Harvard
ana Yale on the grounds OF the Now Haven
professionals Then Wednesday night the Yale
Gee club will give concert, and as a good share Of
the members seniors it viii be something in the
nature OF a farewell to New Haven then comes the
senior promenade which will be elegant affair then
there the commencement appointments to discuss
and old friendships to be suspended: and the
prospects of Yale Springfield to be considered and
diversions to be thought OF
SO That the pause Is only apparent The commence
nent appointments more intimately concern the seniors
ana their friends. They announced last Satur-
day and are follows
APPOINTMENTS.
yaiedictoran--Arthur Twinng Hadley, OF New
Haven
sautatorian-Edwin Dean Worcester, OF Albany
NY.
observation-disclosures William Rollins, Hyde Park.
Mass William Waldo Hyde, Hartford, Conn John b.
kendrick, Walnngford, Conn.
High Orations-John Blanchard Gleason, Delhi N.
y; George Ensign BUSHNELL Beloit, Wis. David Wal
ter Brown. ogdensburg, N. Y. Myron Harry Phelps,
Emwood, ILL., John Flave Gaylord, New Haven Conn.
Orations-Elisha Slocum Bottom Norwich, Conn. !;
George Eaton Coney, New Haven, Conn. Charles
Henry Wilcox Stamford, Conn. William BUCKLES
Lambertcn, Harrisburg, Pal LevOrtt Hyslip Sage,
Dissorlatlons-Fred Norman Wright, Cortland, N.
T.; Oliver Ellsworth Lyman, New Haven, Conn.,;
Louis b. Schram, Milwaukee, Wis; George Loomis
sterling. TrumDull, Conn. William rhaddeus Strong
West Roxbury, Mass
FIRST Disputes-Bradbury Bedeil Athens. N Y;
Lewis Jonathan Warren hin Conn Michael Furst
Brooklyn, N. y; Elmer Parker Howe, Worcester,
Msss n WaH MIA lanes y., wcsPor s,n
more, Nd Dwight Williams Hunter, Ferryvile Conn
LOUIS William Aaxon, San Francisco, Cal
Second Disputes-Archibald Alexander Austin Paris
Ill Frank Erastus Wheeler. Utica, N. Y; Edward
Lewis Lockwood, Goshen, N. r.; Philip Gray Russell,
Ohio; Otto fremont Barnard McGrego, Iowa; Herbert
Stanley Young, Griswold, Conn.
First Coiloquies-Joseph Sexton Hume, Rochester,
\. y; Francis Augustus Leach, Lyous. N. Y; Lowell
Lawrence Clapp. West Killingy, Conn Robert Brown
sioomsSurr Pa JOHN Potter New York; o.y Joseph
Howard Marvin, Brooklyn, n u Joseph Charles lie
Bourgeois 81 James w,, La Winthrop hoy' wrs,ry
second Cooquies-Horace Riverside Buck, sedalia,
Mo-. Chester Mitchell Dawes, Pittshsd, Mass John
Philips claveracs, n. y Arthur Howard My, Brook.
lyn n T.; Frederic " erdcn Pangborn, Jersey City;
Nathan Peabody Tyler. Barrytown n Y; William
Arnold brooklyn, \. Y. Charles De Forest Hawiey,
Waldo yalle, Springfield, Mass; Dan Burr Cush-
man, Plymouth, N. ". John Francis Nelson. Brook
The following is
rnK OFFICIAL PROGRAMME.
Tuesdaypre sentation exercises with the class
ton ana poem, in the Batte chapel, at eleven A. N.
Anniversary OF the Sheffield Scientific School. In the
North Sheffield Hall. at eight r N
Observation-Disclosures meeting OF the alumni In the
Graduates Hail at hal.-p past A. NJ. The polls to
open from two to tour r N. Tor the election OF men,
Anniversary exercises OF tho law department at the
Centre church al two T. A., with orations by four
Townsend prize, 10 be followed by an Grafton by
Richard IL. Dana Jr LII D., of Cambridge, Mass
Az eight r A. reception IN the rooms OF the law de-
partmcnt Tor the alumni Of tho school, with their fami
lies aud invited guests
Thursday-Exercses in the Center church at nine
Presidents reception for graduates and other invited
quests with ladies' In the Yale school OF the Fine Arts,
hon eight TO eleven o'clock NJ
Examinations for admission TO the Acadcmcal De-
partment and TO the sheffield Scientific School will
begin on Friday at nine A. NJ.
The class reunions always a feature at Yale and
Harvard One OF tho most interesting OF these
un ons occurs this week. there reassombing band OF
nineteen OF the members OF the ciass of 81, tho
Youngest man Of whom Is aged seventy-three
c Ins class also OF sass rrosssS s ans
\ cup will be presented TO the reunited class OF ia
according TO custom The exercises at the reunion OF
tho class last mentioned will consist OF poem pre-
sentation speech and class cup ode. The dates OF
the reunions not yet settled but the alumni have
already begun to register with the college librarian.
This evening there was a concert in tho Batte
chapel given by Professor stoecke which proved TO
be interesting The programme made up from
The works OF Handel Mendelssohn, Hadyn, Bach,
Henssih Battiste. Beethoven, Rossini and Wagner