New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-06-25
YALES CLOSING EXERCISES
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MENCEMENT.
ror-p WOMEN Posr-GRADUATEs WITNESS ThH
ExERCIsEs-MR. DEPEW AND '0D'
F. BROWN SPEAK AT THE
ALUMNI DINNER.
inv rrrrcRApu TO THE TRIBUNE.I

ALUMNI DINNER
inv TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBuNE.I
Sevuaven June N-The commencement OIL 1871
at Yale University finished to-day Inc r1'
has been taken up with the forfiai ooi''' -,
exercises in Battell Chapel this morning Ill" .,'e
alumni dinner in Alumni Hall this al'er"'",
overcses were set for 10 o'c.ock. but long pelo'e
~. .,-,e ,bere was great activity on the campus
-rh nrocoesion began to move shortly after the APP
,,ad bour Professor j. G. Schwab. the chei
,oor.bal came first, followed by Hish o"e''''
Spracue and the % Regiment Band
Tber came the candidates FOR the degree OF bach-
elor Of Arts $50 in number. headed by Marsnais ~
X Menith and w. l.. Phelps they were lo'o"eu
by the 1856 candidates for the degree OF Bache'or OF
ph,losonhv under the leadership of Marshais Gap
,oin 7 : Petit, L. S. A. and q. IT, bun'e''
,besa in turn we're followed by the seventy -''A '""
didatcs for the degrees Of LII. b., NJ A. VI Il. anu
u @ H. under Marshals Professor Buckia'u anu
Professor Bears. Then came twenty-seVeh ca"u'-
,atos for NJ d.. under Marshal Professor Fer1s'
followed by thrty-one candidates ioi IL Me- ~
Marshal Professor Gruener
Among the post graduates were four women 'he
fret members OF their sex 10 take part III i"'e
commencement procession Next oehnu me- ,a
ada, IN the procession were the faculty and their
invited guests, and behind them "ero t"e ~'
~ the university In large numbers
The PROCESSION marched through tho nearly conn
,a,od phelps Gateway through the Green 10 'he
oor ~ tho Center Church. thence TO ChaPe'-s~
throuch the Vanderbilt Arch and across 'he campus
- p,,ou c,anel When the head Of the procession
reached this point the students separator io' INV ~
ultv and alumni pass into the cha?ei hrs' i"o ~
,h, the English order OF exercises was 10 be closer!
- di.d GREATER interest than usual TO the
announcement II was tried last year TO a sinai
.xten, and was so satisfactory that IT WAS dec'neu
- adont a. as a whole this year. The order OF eA-
ercises was follows:
Address by tho president. announcement Oh prizes
"' Presentation OF candidates and comforting OF de-
grtes. ,,,.a, and comforting of hon.
Presentation Of candiinte5 ana co"ioi'"'e "
The exercises wero interspersed with music. Inc
Wos.eS ~ Arts-Henry r. WOcott, OF coloTano;
John IaFarge. and judge william H. hunt u
Doctor Of D,ynity-Ths Key HSnry o van DYKE Oh
ana he Esy Dwsgt a~on i% Of Rochester
~ l.; Judge Dwight LOOMS OF Conn1ctcu., IN;
fessor William Il WelGh Of Sohn o.; III, iro SeWYork
supreme Court; John W. Foster ex-secre'9.S 20
State. and Justice Rufus W. Peckhai'' Oh '"' ''''1
Presdent Dwight announced tho following award
OF fcllowshps and foF v tT Fellow
ship r'S'''c5 pckerman. 20 Eldridge Fellowship W
fees W 90 w6,I t. P 9 Ken adU a and H.
FAIR 90 siman Fellowship }: ~ se fn ndpl; ~
Douglass feowshiIs j. N: 'ain 6 Hitting 81 +
BE- b Collins. 20; i Broach 81 and 9 Kellsr
rs sloane FsOwshR X ke T. W. saS'eM Macy s Fellow
sh dp e' Green o. Iarnsd Fellowship d, A s1.
sc Si M rshps e d. Kellogg 05 and e. O. Kear 49,
Tndergraduse Scholarships Waterman sSnol@L
A. Cotton, '9s: Daniel lord scholarship, r. l. Nur-
ply, ~. go. Co., a,oe,,soce in civil engineering:
pSsSd % sheJon kirby. Port Chester. y. Y, with
honorable mention OF Eli Morgan Talcott OF Isn-
students distinguished IN the department Of mil.
United States Army Register for 1881 Ernest W.
den club medal Herbert STANLEY nTSw Detroit ,I6ng
iIich J. Gordon Een4 Cook PT 1ze English @r
reS q CHAPMAN. 90, bridgeport De Forest ma'hs-
9scal P asuq sssS%S HM 70 f E. ha%Se
if fonors in the Medical school n D Gum IHnds
H @TSi Haven: Sanford ii Wadhams. Torrnst9n
H sa,Ic'f Reese se prize Aen Defsnaor Fsiport
y y honorabe mention to o rncr of ,hs John
4 Porter prize. winthrop f. Dwight. I. g. w.
New-Haven.
The following special honors were announcer lot
the graduating academic class:
Twoyear honors In philosophy FuLe, pay G.
ton William Milton Hess; IN history-Ed%ard Day
Collins Wendell Phillips CGt9n J9hss pon,sr ere wa,er
Franklin Prince. Asa Currier Tilt0n; IN Po.t.c,a'
pser Bus a Coleman Louis Hopkins Porter ADDISON
Strong Pratt: in natural science-Richard Johnston
Morgan Edward Dorland Smith Albert Eugene Won
Tobel: in ancient languages Alexander Garner 'ent-
lev Holton Augustine Farr William Lester Henry.
Frank Mason Jeffrey. $4,000
One-ycar honors-In philosophy William conger
Morgan Water Franklin Prince: In hstory-sylves-
Ter 4 Sadlcr Lee Rutland SCARBOROUGH. Harry Alexis
Spaldng; in political science and law-William CID.
con Baker, jr. Bertram Joseph Calm Edwarl
Everett Denison. Robert Lusk, Charles Wesley
Miller Lee Rutland Scarborough; in ancient Ian
puages-Edwart Conner Chickerng. Robert stewart
NcC'lenahan Theodore Woods Noon: in modern Ian
guages-Jay Cover E.dTidge; In Engish-John NJ.
Elliot Breck enrdge. John Ladd Burnham. Louis
Cleveland Jones. Henry Edwin McDerrnott: In music
William Woods Chandler.
The annual alumni dinner took place in Alumni
Hal and I'm the Casino this afternoon. The dinner
was largely attended by the alumni and by those
VINO were graduated today. Speeches made
by President Dwight. ana Chauncey VI. Dep"w. &c.
David ] Brewer 20. and Rufus W. Peckham. both
Associate Judges OF the supreme Court Of the United
States; Judge {. +. Brown OF the New York Supreme
Court and many others
President Dwight gave reception In the art schoo.
this evening.