New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-26
PRESENTATION DAY AT YALE.
hIspl4N 4 n iipA' bEhA a. N-A'%'
ANNOUNCING THE PRIZEs-sENIoR CLASS APPOINT
MFNTs.

hENIS.
NEw-HAvEN, June 25.-FOr some unac
eountabe reason or other It is always hotter during
commencement week than at any other time. Even
that muchabused person. the oldest living graduate,
cannot remember when he attended cool or even a
comfortable commencement The hot wave dropped In
here last Tesday aud has been lowering around ever
since II makes body Tired II too hot TO live
yesterday and to-day isn't much better II Is the real
old regulation commencement weather.
At IL o'clock this morning the graduating class
formed in line on the campus and with the assistance Of
brass band 70 Battel Chapel TO listen TO the
exercises of what IL known presentation day. The
chapel was crowded with students and their lady friends
On the platform President Porter and members oil
the corporation. After some music, tho c'1ss poet,
Joseph NcReeu lewis delivered the class poem. At the
conclusion 81 the poem president introduced the
orator Of the occasion Frederick c. Leonard, Of Spring
Mills n. y. Who delivered interesting Grafton on
The Needs Of the Young Graduate" The Grafton
something entirely diner emit from anything OF the Kind
delivered hore before. and by Ito novelty and practical
sense won for II the outnuasc praise winch II
the exercises were closed by the following announce
ncni Of prizes:
siimin Fe owship Ia assigned again to Arthur L.
Douglas Fellowship Edward r. Mclaughlin class OF
Learned Scholarship for the class OF 1892 to T. +.
ABBOTT. -, =,
Berkeley Scholarship for class OF 1888. to Edward G.
CIark scholarship for class OF 1888 10 Carl A Lewis
Modem Languages Scholarship for class OF 1883 to
Hsiucanbents Of the two Foote scholarships which
are 10 be established THIS week by the oprpJraion H.
Moore aud L. q. Bourne, both OF the class OF 1883
scott Prize Tor excellence IN German, 70 Charles O.
sherman oi the senior eass ,
.Cobaen CLUB Medal 10 t. g. Bourne Of the senior
Fra, senior MathemaIca Prize to T. H. Moore. Sec
ond prizss 10 r.. j. Essclstyu and c. 5. Kelsey.
The senior class appointments arc rs follows: Vale
= "a geliorc
High Ora.ions-E. Moorc, T. W. Kellogg. Geisthardt,
Kendall Boswor,h and Csrmat LoOmie aud sherman,
cornwall and Tar, T.. Bourne, Grubb, G. Lewis D.
Lewis aud routhworih Price; Carroll P11tuer ,.,,
atom, Es-elsiyn. Kelsey and Nctueton. a. Bowman
npd H. smith, vernon, Durham and sattertnTa!te.
Tissel aad Dana II. Fisk and Knowltown, Clark,Jeu-
n!ngs, Heidelberg. a.
sseftaiioas9Pierpont, Lyford ana Read, Carr,
and Latham. IL. Calhoun aud Morton, Harrison aud
~ Fr,,t Decentralization. Preston, Hoadly. Mohet,
Haisey and Houpt Kemish and stockweL Irumbuu,
Dol and Leonard Ham -, ~, -,
Second Dispues-Burton, nsyens Bucl, Fields Jewei
aud sprou. G. ;. Foote, +. b. kellogg aud Ray mond
Nelson aud Newton. L. smith. -,--
tirst CollOquy -Forchemer' fairott Burpee Dihgley
and G. j. FooIe. Crane Chamberlain, A. Fisk and way
land Black r. sawyer and Hustled. - 81,
second CoiOquJ-D. Phelps, ran Denlng' merrill
Lyude, j. Moore aud Tucker Cromwell, COtwth' HOyt
and LouguOrdge. -,-,oo -, ,...
number ever at Yale. Tao whole class NUMBERS
Iig men, every Of whom will receive MS degree
In The competition for the John A. Porter prize OF
$50 Tor the best English open 20 tho undergrad
yates OF all departments, the nrst place was to,uhy
awarded 10 oun Wurts OF the Law School, VINO resides
M MayVODd W. Va. His subject was The AntlSlayery
Movement as Related TO the Constitution OF the Uned
states" The essay by Pbllp g. Bartlett OF the Depart
ment Of Philosophy and the Arts, on the subject A
Trirerlon of Extravaganza In Sinking Capital and the
essay by George NJ Duncan, or the DIVINITY SchCOl on
The subject, Democracy In England received honor
anle mention There nine compeIitOrs. The Judges
were Henry Holt, Edward Mead and George Richards,
The campus this afternoon presented lively scene.
one end OF II workingmen busy putting the
bp tent Alumn meeting Ehd dinner to-lnoTrOw;
at the other end the whole college were assembled 10
listen the class histories; Inc ahPhtheatricai ar
NJ the elm trees seemed inadequate
Tor the great crowd Of people who were ANXIOUS 10 near
the funny incidents and stories OF each mans career
he entered college IL had been ruinored at tne
betore being read the class and its friends but the
renori was uniounded President Porter simply made
II W sggrsOns % the historians some tine ago The
histories were bright and entertaining Inc historians
were d. A. Buell. YOnkers, Charles C. Clarke OF sing
iny William Price, OF POttsOwn, Penn, and sheldon O.
keTrnish OF Tcand The histories were Interpreted
win sGugs Later in the afternoon the graduating class
inriued I'M line and marched to Batte Chapel where the
class ivy planted with the usual ceremonies The
ode sung on tho occasion was "rlteh py hoDoTt "
Rogers, OF Buffalo.
Alter the ceremonies of planting the ivy
oluded the class marched TO the house or President
Porter IN HilLOuse ave, 10 give him serenade. Inc
Presdout appeared his door knd made short speech
90 the class The festivities OF presentation day were
brought TO close In the evening by the senior prone
made in Alumni Hall The gathering was an unusually
large and brilliant The hall handsomely deo-
oraied Dancing continued until a late hour, at
which the students went To their rooms 20 prepare
for the alumni meeting 10 morrow morning. President
Porter will give brief sketch OF college affairs during
The last year. and speeches will Do naao by prominent
graduates At tho Alumni Will sit down to dinner
in Alumni Hall The anniversary exercises OF the Law
School will be held tomorrow afternoon In CeUtre
Cnurh In the evening there Will bo reception Tor the
graduates their friends. The Glee Club Concert VIII
DO given tomorrow evening at Carll's Opera House