Evening star., 1896-10-20
NASSAU CELEBRATES
sesqui-C Centennial Of the Founding
Of Princeton.
NOTABLE GATHERING OF COLLEGIANS
Unique TorchIight Procession To-
morrow Night.
FORMAL COMMEMORATION

PRINCETON, N. j., October 20.-Indica-
tions point to the complete success Of the
Princeton College sesqui-centennial celebra-
| ton, and certain 1t is that the exercises.
both on account of the event which they
commemorate and their own great merit,
will attract special notice and long be re-
membered.
The religious service in Alexander Hall
today will open the three days celebration.
The sermon will be delivered by President
Patten, and Prof. Fisher, dean Of the Yale
University school; Prof. Warfield of Prince
| ton Theological Seminary, the Rev. s. J.
Mcpherson Of Chicago and the Rev. w. B.
Bodine of Philadelphia will also partici-
pate i'll the service. A choir Of alumni,
| composed Of forty or fifty former men,
bers Of Princeton glee clubs, will sing an
anthem and lead the singing Of the con-
gregation.
Notable Gathering of Collegians.
In the afternoon Alexander Hall will
hold an assemblage Of learned men such
as is seldom gathered on occasion.
Ninety-five delegates from as many diff
ferent institutions of learning throughout
Europe, Canada and this country will be
present, and receive formal welcome to
Princeton. OF these ninety-five delegates,
the country of any prominence from Bow
doin to the universities of Texas and Cali
fornia will be unrepresented. The Cana
dian colleges send delegates, while the six
noted professors Who have lectured at
Princeton during the past week, together
with several others, will represent the uni
versities of England and the continent.
Robert College of Constantinople sends
its delegate Prof. Charles Anderson, while
the University of Athens, unable to send
representative, yet unwilling to allow this
celebration to go unrecognized, has ap-
| pointed Dimitrius Botassi, the Greek con-
sui general at New York, as its delegate.
CongrntuIntOry Letters.
One of the features of this reception of
| delegates will be the acknowledgment of
| the congratulatory addresses. About fifty
| of these have been received SO far from
| Universities throughout this country and
| Europe. Printed and engrossed On vellum
| with Illuminated borders and initial letters,
| many of these documents are marvels of
| printing and penmanship. All are in SINH
| lar strain, and extend greetings and con-
gratulations to the new Princeton. Follow
| ing the acknowledgment Of these, the ad-
| dress of welcome will be delivered by the
| Rev. Howard Dutfield of the First Pres
| byterian Church of New York city, and
| responses will be made by President Eliot
| OF Harvard in behalf of the universities
ard learned societies of America and by
| Prof. Joseph john Thomson of Cambridge
| University. In behalf Of similar European
| bodies. The presentation of delegates in
| the Chancellor Green library will close the
| afternoons exercises. In the evening
| curcert will be given in Alexander Hall
| by the Damrosch Orchestra.
The morning Of the second day will be
| devoted to The delivery of the Grafton by
| Prof. Woodrow Wilson. aid the ode by the
Itev. Henry ]. Van Dyke. The coot ball
game in the afternoon will furnish the ath-
ietic entertainment of the occasion. but the
feature of the entire celebration unless all
| signs fail will be the torchlight procession
| ard illumination Of the campus in tine
| evening. Before the procession many of
! the classes will hold reunions end barquets
The Torchlisht Procession.
At pm. the procession will form back
| of Nassau Hall, near the old cannon The
parade will start at S:30 and the route
| will be through the principal streets of the
town. and will end in front of Nassau Hall.
Among those who will march are the
] Mercer Blues, body of sixty-four Prince
| ton students organized especially for this
| occasion. They will wear the old bun and
| blue continental uniform, with cooked hats
| and VIII make very attractive appear
| ance. Yale has consented to send dele
| cation of twenty-four men. Several floats
| will carry along the line OF march repre-
| sentations of the cannon, the tiger and
other portions of Princeton history and
| tradition, while transparencies. large and
| small. Will cause the procession to fairly
| bristle with wit and wisdom. Two arches
30 feet high will span Nassau street on the
line OF march. one at University Place and
the other In front Of the deans house.
On the Campus.
After passing the review, each division
will take its assigned position on the cam
| pus. The strains of "Old Nassau" will ring
forth from the throats of $500 of her sons
| and 1.oOO electric lights covering the front
| of Nassau Hall will break forth
Later in the evening the students and
alumni will gather about the steps of Mas
sau Hall. James w. Alexander of New
York will preside, and it is expected that
speeches will be made by President Cleve-
land, some of the foreign delegates and
well-known alumni of Princeton
Formal Commemoratfon.
Thursday, the anniversary of the sign
Ing Of the first charter of Princeton the
guests Of the college, faculty and alumni
Will march to Alexander Hall, in which the
formal commemoration exercises will be
held. President Patten will formally an
nounce the changed name from THE Col
lege OF New Jersey to princeton Uni
versfty.' The prayer will be offered by the
Rev. DIR. Theodore L. Cuyler of Brooklyn.
The university title and endowments will
be announced and honorary degrees confer
red. Following this there will be an ad-
dress by President Cleveland. The benedic-
ton will be pronounced by the Rev. Henry
Y. Satterlee, bishop of Washington, D. C.
In the evening banquet will be given to
the delegates in the Assembly Hall.