Morning journal and courier., 1885-06-04
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for the Closing Exer- |
 cfses-The Features of Class Day l
 The DeForest Prize Speakers-Com-
 mencement Speakers.
 Students at Yale are now waiting for the | closing festivities of the year. These will | begin next Monday and the first course will consist entirely of semi-annual examinations, which will continue for week and a half, closing on Thursday, June 18th. The Town send prize orations will be spoken for the DeForest prize medal on Friday afternoon, June 18th. The speakers will be as follows:
 Henry DeForest Baldwin New York city-'The Origin and Duration of the Solid South n ..o.
 John Coyse BrIdgman Ceveand ohloIGnarii 1 h&iSIiHT WiibuT Lucius Cross, Gurleyyille-"sainte
 Guy Ward Mallon, Cincinnati, Charitable
 Works and Institutions as Judged oy follticai
 I%cius Franklin Robinson Hartford-"T Future
 Eugene Lamb Richards, New Haven-"The Flu
 ture of the English House of Lords"
 Sunday, June 21. is Baccalaureate Sunday
 and President Porter will deliver the Bac-
 calaureate sermon in the morning in the
 chapel The next day, Monday, is class day
 and the class oration will be delivered by
 the class orator, Frank R. Shipman of Hart ford, and the class poem will be read by the
 poet, Charles E. Cushing of Bath, Me, in
 the morning at the chapel. In the afternoon
 the class histories will be read in the triangle are: Oliver Percy Bright, Wilmington, Del;
 William Scoville Case, Granby; Lafayette
 Blanchard Gleason, Delhi, N. Y.; George
 Fitch Stacy, Stacyville, Iowa, and Charles Samuel Wiley, Charleston, Ill. The class ivy will be planted with the usual ceremonies after the reading of the histories. Then day, Tuesday, will be well filed with the meetings of the various classes of graduates. Then we will have annuals, trl- ennials, sexennials, decennials, etc., ad hbi- tum, on the campus all at once, and then not in as formidable form as the semi-an- nuals, which will by that time have passed away.
 Wednesday, June 24, is Commencement, and in the morning of that day the gradu- ates will form in line on the campus and, l led by the dean, with the graduating class at the end, will march to the Center church, wh re the exercises will be held. The youth ful orators who will lend their eloquence to 1 the occasion and who will cause the class of l 85 never to be forgotten under the elms of the campus and vicinity, with their subjects, are as follows Colin Sherman Buell., Madison, Conn.-"Modern Philosophy and Religious Tendencies. ' | William Merle Carhart, Peekskill. N Y.-"Re- publicansm in France
 Edward Augustus George, Providence, R. L. The War of Classes
 William Jarvis. Louisville, Ky.-''The Democratic Spirit of the Century,
 James Richard Joy, Groton, Mass. -''Premeth- eus''
 Lyman Pfympton Peet West Haven-' Evolution and Design
 Robert James Pitkin, Pueblo Col.--'The Devel- ! opment of the American Political Creed" George Augustus Sanderson Littleton, Mass 1.-The Able-boded Poor.'
 | Paul Irving WeIles. Fayetteville, N. Y.-''The | Theory and Practice of Party Allegiance Herbert Henry White, New Haven-Latin Ora | tion.
 Charles Samuel Wiley, Chariestown, M:-"Col- Iege Graduates As Useful Members of Society. Levi Olmsted Wiggins Newburg, N. Y:-.Gov- ernment Intervention in Education, with the Vale dictory Address.