The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-06-13
rnE NEW ooMMENoEMNNr.
Full Details of the Procession and the Cor
ferring of Degrees at Yale.

Full Details of the Procession and the Con
| ferring of Degrees at Yale.
The proposed changes in the exercises
of commencement week at Yale affect
primarily those of Wednesday, com
mencement day, This day is to become
a university affair, as compared with
the college and other celebrations of the
Monday and Tuesday of commencement
| week, the latter remaining unchanged
except for the addition of class day on
| the part Of the senior class of the Shelf
| field Scientific school
| The following changes in connection
with the commencement exercises prop
err may be noted: Candidates for de-
| grees and graduates assemble at 1915
on the college campus, the candidates
| forming two by two on the walk ex-
tending from Alumni hall to the porch
of the Chittenden library, and in the
| following order: First the A. BIS, then
| the PHI. b.. IS, the LII. B. s, the NJ. A, s.,
M. LIS, D. C. LIS, M, DIS, and the Phi
DIS.
The graduates will similarly form two
abreast. in the order of graduation. on
the central walk, extending from Van
derbilt to Durfee. The corporation
candidates for honorary degrees, mem
bers of the faculties and invited guests,
will form ON the walk south Of the
treasury building, facing the library
and will fall in behind the candidates
for degrees. The line of the procession
will be to Elm street between Alumni
hall and Durfee, down Elm street to
College street by diagonal path across
the green to the Dixwell monument to
Center church. by another diagonal
path to the corner of Chapel and Col
lege streets. to the courtyard of Van
derbilt hall, through the archway to-
ward Osborn hall, and by the walk in
front of the brick row" to the Battell
chapel. Along this walk the candidates
will form a double line, as usual, and
let the president, corporation, faculty,
invited guests and graduates pass
through into the chapel.
The seats in the chanel will be as
signed as follows: The corporation,
candidates for honorary degrees, the
faculty and invited guests will occupy
the platform, the graduates will be
seated in the south aisle Cthe recent ad-
dition to the chapel, in the south
central aisle and in the west gallery,
the musicians and chorus in the north
transept. The northwest and south
galleries will be reserved for ladies,
for which separate tickets will be is
sued. The body of the chapel will be
filled with the candidates for degrees,
the Phi. b. IS occupying the north aisle,
the A. BIS the center aisle and half the
next aisle. The candidates for the LII
B. and the other degrees will occupy
the southern transept,
The degrees will be conferred in the
order in which the candidates are
drawn up in the procession. The bach
elors," that is the seniors in the college,
the scientific school and the law school
will receive them through representa-
tives selected on the basis of scholar.
ship. The other candidates will receive
the diplomas direct from the president
Each group of candidates will rise and
be presented to the corporation by
the deans of the respective faculties,
and the candidates for honorary degrees
by an orator selected for the occasion.
Thereupon the president will confer the
degrees upon the candidates, handing the
diplomas to them individually as they
cross the platform, or to their represen-
tatives as explained above. The latter
return to their seats and distribute the
documents to their owners Immediately
after the benediction is pronounced.
1t is hoped that the combination of
the picturesque and enjoyable features
of the old commencement, the process
sion and the general gathering of the
alumni with the proposed innovations
or rather renovations, the music, the
formal presentation Of candidates and
of degrees, will meet with
the hearty approval Of the graduates.