New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-06-23
AMONG THE COLLEGES.


New-Hayen June % (SpecaD.-Commencemen
week will be marked by important innovation III
Yale customs. the holding OF commencement exer-
cises In Battell Chapel instead Of the old Centre
Church. has been done for a century and nail
The reason for this change Is that the remodeHng
OF the chapel last year made II more commodious
than the church.
On commencement morning the procession WI"
form on the campus, marching through the impos-
Ing entrance OF Vanderbilt Hall down the walk
to Batte Chapel. The procession VIII open ranks
on the walk allowing the corporation Of the uniVer-
s,tv the faculty and candidates for honorary de-
grees and invited guests TO pass through and enter
the chapel first. The graduating class Will follow
and occupy the seats assigned to them
Another change will be the adjustment of the
long orations and the introduction OF more music
making the exercises shorter. The XVIII Psalm
will be sung as II was in 17ls. at the opening OF
the first college building. and again at the inaug
uration OF President Dwight Still another feature VIII
be the singing by chorus composed OF eighty STU
dents of an ode by Edmund Clarence Stedman. set
TO music by Professor Parker OF Yale President
Dwight will give short review OF the work OF the
year and the announcement Of prizes and honors
and short address to the candidates VIII De ioi-
lowed by the formal comforting OF degrees An o'd
custom will be revived in having the candidates
"presented' TO the president. VINO VIII tnen olca'
IN confer the degrees.
The graduation exercises OF the Yale Law School
will be held in Battel Chapel on Monday AFTER
noon The address will be delivered by Justice henry
b. Brown Of the United States Supreme Court. MS
subject will be THE Twentieth Century. Inc
Townsend prize speakers and their subjects are
1.-The Relations OF a President TO His Party, FRANK
T. Donnely David Dudley Field" Frederick Car
fer Rector: '"The Failure OF Municipal Govern
ment" Herbert Knox Smith. On Tuesday morning
st Il o'clock those who passed the bar examination
Will be admitted TO the by Judge Prentice IN the
Superior Court
Another departure OF commencement week was
the cassiay observed by the Sheffield Scien'nlc
School The Shelf men have been on-lookers al
these festivities rather than participants. In me
past and little BY little the sentiment mas sdineu
q fOothod that the > SIS OF the uhlvers,t!
should figure a little more conspicuously curing
commencement The class held Its meeting on me
lawn near south Sheffield. on Hillhouse-ay this
morning and admission was by card me pro
eramme opened by the singing or college, songs
BY the class. The freshman history was read py
Joseph Wickham Roe, OF Brooklyn. AFTER whlcn
singing Sidney Cecil Borg read the junior history
Renet Harvey Thayer jr. was the senior CLASS MS
toran. The committee who had the ailalr IN
charge was composed OF leading closter men; LLOYD
Marsh Norman Leeds and Frank b, Stephenson
AT O'Clock the class held a reception IN Win
chester Hall. The committee for the class was VIII
lett Hail. Robert A. Hamlin. Charles 5 stephenson
and Philip T. Stlman: for the Governing boaru.
Professor Charles 5. Hastings. Professor William
G. Mixter and Professor Charles h. Richards
The programme for next week is as follows Mon
day, commencement exercises. SCIENTIFIC ana Law
schools Tuesday alumni and class meeting, Glee
Club concert and ball game with Harvard; Wednes-
day commencement (Academcal DEPARTMENT..
alumni dinner and presidents reception; Friday
boat race.