Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-07-01
YALE COMMENCEMENT.

cement Day-The Procession =
The Graduating Exercises At Center
Church-The Honorary And Other
Degrees Conference.-The Alumni Din
ner-A Large And Enthusiastic AS
sembly OF Graduates - President
Porter Rah! Ran! Rah - The
Corporations Regret And Words At
Parting - President.Elect Dwight
Delights The Assembly with One Of
His Best Speeches Gov. Harrison
Talks-Yale AS A Christian College,
ssThe Jungles Of African - Cyrus
Northrop speaks witty Speeches
And Poem-President Porter's ReceP-
ton Last Night-The Inauguration
OF President Dwight To-Day.
Commencement day at Yale yesterday was
one of the most notable in the history of the
college, and was highly interesting and
enjoyable day to the 200 or 800 of Yale's
alumni present in the city. The weather
was delightful and the heat less oppressive
than usual on Commencement days. The
annual procession was formed at nine o'clock
in front of the old college chapel by Profess
sor Dexter, who was clad in gown and Oxford
hat, and acted as grand marshal. High
Sheriff Gates led the procession and In 1t
were President Porter, Governor Harrison,
large representation of the Yale faculty and
of the college corporation, and the large body
of students about to receive their degrees;
also about one hundred of the older gradu-
ates, including the Oldest living graduates
present, Rev J. D. Wickham of Manchester,
Vermont, and Rev. George L Woods of the
class of '33. The dignitaries and old gradu-
ates formed in the old college chapel and
Joined the younger portion of the procession
which stood in waiting in front of the edifce.
President Porter, who was clad in his gown
of state, walked arm in arm with the Gov
ernor of the State. When the procession
reached the Center church the church bell
rang, and the undergraduates formed in two
lines and with heads uncovered ssluted the
procession of dignitaries as they passed into
the church, and then in turn passed in to the
seats reserved for them. The corporation
and faculty occupied the platform. All the
remaining seats in the church were occupied
by waiting, expectant assembly, in which
ladies plying fans vigorously predomlnated
The admission was by ticket except to the
south gallery. Hundreds were turned away
by the doorkeepers, there being no more room.
Ladies had been waiting at the church doors
for an hour and half in ordeg to secure
good seats. The music for the occasion was
celebrated orchestra of New York. They
opened the exercises with Rossini's beautiful
.'Semiramis' overture. Prayer was offered
by President Porter. The exercises We're as
follows:
Latin salutatory Grafton, by Washington Irving
Hunt of Columbus, Mich.
Grafton: Renaissance Italy in the EliZabethan
Drama by George Edwin Eliot, jr., of Clinton.
Music: Flying Dutchman-Wagner:
Grafton: "Goethe's Sorrows of Werther, by
William Ebenezer Nichols, of East Haddam
Grafton: Horace Mann as an Educator, by Will
son Lee Cannon, jr., of Dover, Del.
Music Lake-Debes.
Philosophical Grafton: 1.-THE Alexandrian Uni
versity in Mathematics by Judson Schultz Dutch
er, of Ellenville N. Y.
Grafton: Socialism, by Benjamin Joseph Da-
Wis, Of New Haven
Music: Queen of Sheba-Goldmark
Oration 1.-The Early Greek Humorists" by
Charles Albert Moore, of Columbus. o.
Grafton: "Wordsworth's View of Nature and OF
Man. by Arthur Goebel. of Covington, KY.
Dissertation: THE Eastern Question by Arthur
Lefingwell Shpman, of Hartford.
Philosophical Grafton: "Lucretius as a Moral
leacher,'' by William Adams Brown, of New York
city.
Music: Tannhauser-Wagner.
Grafton: Life Philosophy of Schopenhauer and
Hartman, by John c. Schwab, of New York city.
Philosophical Grafton: Modern Progress and the
Stationary State Doctrine with the valedictory
n. Y.
Music: Oberon Overture-Weber.
Distribution of degrees.