New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-25
CLASS DAY AT YALE.

CLASS DAY AT YALE.
EXERCISES OF THE SENIOR CLAss-THE COLLEGE
PRIzEs-LIsTENISG TO THE CLASS HIsroHASs-
SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL GRADUATING EXERCISES
BALL OF THE SENIOR CLASS.
fFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE rRIBUNE.l
NEw-HAvEN, Conn.,, June 24.-COmmence-
week is always hot 10 Is often hotter ana some
times IL IL hottest this year the comparative degree Is
sufficiently accurate description. But there Is toer
ably cool breeze. and the old elms are like canopy
over the campus; that one need actually sunrr'
II il too early week for the town to be crowded.
bur con idera Bile number OF old grads" have already
arrived. Several uminaries were expected to appear
on Commencement Day. II the Democrats 10 washing
ton had backed down little sooner President Hayes ana
Secretary EyaTts would have been here and II Is POSI-
bic that the latter may it s II is customary
each year TO invite specially number Of distinguished
gentlemen whether graduates Of the college or not 10
grace the exercises OF commencement. Two or three
years ago General Sherman made an excellent speech al
the alumni dinner and IN 1872 b. Gratz Brown opened
a somewhat memorable campaign from the same ros-
rum. This year there will be no lack Of postpradlai
orators but It does not yet appear how famous they
will be.
Today TO the Senior Class and they making
good use OF formal exercises Of Class Day oc-
curred I'm the Batten Chapel this morning. The poet
was Louis Du POut SYe OF Baltimore. HIS verses were
smooth and graceful and met the appreciation OF
aud of large general audience Of ladies and gentlemen
who filed the parts OF the chapel The ass orator.
George Washington Kirchwey, or Albany, SAID great
deal thai was sensible and worth thinking about ON the
subject Of Democracy and the Individual" Tne part
ing ode by Frederick Abbott Stokes was sung to the ar
annie Lise," which with some notifications has
long been familiar % the college the Sophomore
society song Amci Usque ad Aras." After the class
exercises proper were concluded President Porter Who
with Of Faculty, sat on the PLATFORM announced
the following college prizes;
Soldiers Memorial Fellowship. Lloyd W Bowers, 70
Douglass Fellowship, Charles Miller. 10; Larned
Scholarship for the class OF 1873 william f. Waters
Larned scholarship for the class Of 1879, Albert W.
shaw Clark scholarship for the class OF 1879 Louis Du
Pout sye W w De Forest Scholarship FOR The class Of
1879 Edward NJ. Noyes; Bristed Scholarship A 9 Van
de Grasf OF the sophomore class, Woosey Scholarship
for the class OF 1882 Benjamin Brcw-teri Hurlhert
scholarship for the class or 1882, j. J. Wells Third
Freshman scholarship, William L. Lt1ehalcs; First
Senior Mathematical Prize, Henry Cooper Crouch FIRST
Winthrop Prze Il. NJ Reynolds Scott Prize FOR excel
Ience in German Cochrane and W. Smith 0Ointlyl, 79i
Scott Prize for excellence in French, Austen, so.
English Composition Prizes the sophomore Glass
First prizes Bartlett 70 Burrel ana Coleman jointly
10 Evarts and 70 ghtOn Second prizes 10 Bowen ana
GriswOd jointly % Dwight 70 lllles and % warren.
Third prizes 10 Bigelow, TO Aiken and Richardson
Jointly o. Eliel and eman jointly, ana 20 Lincoln
Defamation Prizes IN the sophomore Cass-First
prize Idle and LOOMS. Second prize 10 Boswick and
IL ; Duraud. Third prlZe 90 Richardson.
Premiums for the solution OF Mathematical Problems,
snnbnm0rr ClassFlrst prze TO Lucas Second prize 10
HOZnrimer and Thomas. Freshman Class-Itrst prize,
Johnson. Second prize, Bruce Imrd price, ABBOTT and
Berkeley Premiums for Latin Composition in the Fresh
man Class-hlrst prizes 10 ABBOTT Beaeh, brewster
FOOte, L. Graves and Lttlehaies. Second prizes 70
Bruce, johnson. Scranton Seymour, Titche and ]. l.
Wells
Alter dinner the Jolly and unconventional per
formances Of the Seniors conducted the college
triangle OF raised seats had been arranged
chose 10 attend, aud In the in
closed space the graduating class sat on benches or
auraw ed grass while their historians, Z. Bige
low, q. h. Foster, l. A Pat and j. T. h0chiorI re-
called them with vast number OF jokes AT their e1-
pense amid OF laughter from the PIT and riDes OF
merinehl RON inc uItss ne an ~t.'tTn soi o
DAY, occasionally interrupted the now OF VII ls open-
air meeting Is the most picturesque OF al tie com
mencement exercises Yale though Il lacks the brill
fancy and life aud movement when make Class Day AZ
Harvard unique II Is amazing how many pretty girls
each successive Senior class eau summon 90 New-Hayen
They have been tripping across tDe campus oy the score
aud cOusins least OF other peoples brothers and
cousins and every tram brings fresh accesslons.
hundred or more Of them ocked to the triangle beneath
the ems afternoon and looked aud listened with the
pleased concern while The histories we're read ana
Afterward came the class parade through the college
grounds. and the planting OF the class IVY followed by
This evening the graduating exercises OF the Senior
cltss In the scientific school h. Ia North shelf
field Hall In former years the Seenuilcs commence
ment was Monday ana claimed the attention
OF many ladies' who now fec compelled TO relugulsn
ms substantial mental pabulum in favor Of the
Academic Seniors ball. which always comes on Tue
day evening. However. there II some compensation I'D
fine fact nat few ladies do duty both performances,
and thus appear in shining costume At the reading OF
the scientific theses The following programme or the
exercises Sorth sheffield Hall Is trife solemn, but
II is very solid;
L George Augustus Saunders civil Engineering. New
port l. Modern Turbines Represented by The swain
= Charles seward wilcox Dynamic Engineering. Paines.
yile ono The indicator and the indicator Diagram
s. Walter NOnihOh lAgriculture). Alpine, j. Peasant
= lanes Boyd cal b. A. CBiology) bloomsbury Penn.
.sIhe n cart and AOrtic Arches IN Nertebraes."
o. K2kich Milsukur tZ0OOgy)t Toxic, Japan Anatomy
OF The Common Gray Mussel koiioEa DtieatuG Lanark
D. waiter smith Williams seecti. Evanston, ILL., The
WIIliam lanes Comsock Chemistry Toledo Ohio.
Method for Separating CezIum from Lsnthanun
Albert Lowery webster Civil Engineering. staten
island. y y. "f!evew OF the MuscOuetCOug Tunnel"
g. Herbert Eugene smith (BlO0gyl Hartford Anatomy
OF the American Medicinal Leech.'
In The scientific school the graduating class numbers
forty-one Prizes awarded for excellence in ndi-
yidua studies. The most marked honors were taken by
Ethan Allen Andrews who TOOK the prize Tor general ex-
Gel lcnce an ali studies OF the Freshman year.
This evening the senior ball. looked 10 Win peasur-
able longing the students aud their fair friends, n
given by senior class In Alumni Hall. Formerly all
respects better place for them. There ID sort Of
appropriateness. however, in having such entertain
ments within the college grounds. This evening, a.
usual there crush when somewhat nterferes win
night More average amount Of female lowell
ness present and tins hour enough enthusiasm has
uncOrAed to last well into the early hours OF to-
The Rev James VI Hoppin, d D.. has resigned the
Of In the Yale Theological school, ana
has oted tue OfessOrsnp or tue History OF Art M
the school Of Fine Arts. Professor william Barbour
will give instruction IN HOmetcs and Pastoral Inc
OOgy Theological school during the coming year