Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-06-26
YALE CommENCEnrENr.

Az AusplclOHD Openimg-The Glass
Grafton and P0em-The Parting Ode
THE Glass Histories and Ivy ODE
The Law school commandments
Names Of the Coming LaVyers-The
Scientific school Exercises and Grad.
uates-The Promenade.
Yale's commencement week opened aus
piciously yesterday, The principal hotels
were alive with visitors come to attend the
exercises, and there was music in the air on
the college campus, while the weather was of
the most charming that June affords, with
bright skies and the promise of a continuance
of fair weather. The big trees on the campus
bore the usual burden of posters and hand
bills giving announcements of college events
of interest; grave and dignifed old Yalen-
slams moved about under the "dear old
elms," proud of their alma mater and full of
recollections Of the past, while youth and
beauty lent its charm to the bright soul.
Yesterday was undergraduates day-pressn-
tation day. The class Grafton and the class
poem were given in the morning and in the
afternoon the class histories were read be-
young and pretty faces innumerable.
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the Lyceum and headed by Colts band
marched to Battell chapel. President Dwight
offered prayer. The class poem was by Fred
Palmer Solley of Orange, N. J., and was
very meritorious production. After prgt-
ty reference to the four happy years II Yale
life, and the parting now at hand, yhe said:
The lonely traveller, when SPENT
With heat and weariness, Within
Some vast cathedral shu11e the din
OF sultry streets; with houehts intent
On 6ygone days, called up apace
P Py m4ss ~, ~ finders Of the dead.
r1 ro1eeIs 11ss55egus, and feels instead
Inc peaSesthat sanctifes the place.
So College memories win prove
1.-THE shrine Of what we hold most dear,
To friends, ''the brothers OF our love-
He then spoke feelingly of the ties formed,
the hopes shared, the mutual interchanges of
heart aspirations, the unity of feeling engen-
dered Of long associations.
30 friendship formed in college days
WIN lend its sweetness thro' our lives;
part Of self. it aye survives
The timeThen friends take parting ways.
It cannot die-We're more our friends
Than we're ourselves; our very traits
Are those which each man initiates
In him whose character extends.
He spoke then of the future, Offering coun-
sci and high aims as follows:
Well find that in the outer world,
Where sham too often rules the day,
Our trust will often meet diSmay
And high hopes to the ground be hurled
But through all doubts and fears we'll bear
A faith that nothing can subdue
In men whom we've proved strong and true,
Who'll honor the proud name we share.
Let TRUTH then, be our end and aim
Through life as now-God'S truth. that shines
In noble thoughts and deeds, and twines
The laurel wreath that crowns true fame.
The nations strength, the worlds advance
Depend upon the multitude
OF men who thus are true and good,
Who stand for the deliverance
OF truth from error right from wrong,
Shoulder to shoulder. May we thrill
With just such purpose as we fill
And may our college ever send
Men firm and true and bound in one
To swell these ranks till war is done,
When truth shall conquer In the end.
And now / cannot say FAREWELL
To meaningleSs-butI
Would speak as one would fortify
Himself for strife and fear dispel
That word which in the days of old
FS alsd p Pato Ga a TGu No qse s0da
Which means to me not merely cold
Farewell" but confident PREVAIL
Be strong, be valiant, as we know
Ye all can be-your courage show
For God, for country and for Yale"