The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-22
COMMENCEMENT D0INGS.
f SUMMARY OF THE EVENTS AT BENDING TALE GRADUATION.

Class Day Exercises This Afternoon
 Woolsey Statue Dedication-Law School
 Commencement - Shelf. Prizes--Aca-
 demic Appointments-Prog for the
 Week.
 The Yale campus assumed last Satur- day a strange appearance with the fences, seats and platforms which en- closed or covered two-t thirds of it. Around that part of the campus is a tight board fence eight feet high which extends back two-thirds of the length of Durfee hall. This fence is to enclose the tables which will be used at the alumni banquet, which will be held on Wednesday afternoon. The banquet is held in Alumni hall, but so many at tend that the hall cannot accommodate all and so tables are spread under a large tent in front of the building in addition to those inside of the build ing.
 Between Lyceum and Old Chapel a sort of amphitheater of seats has been arranged for the class day exercises and reading of class histories this af- ternoon. The class historians are: c. S. Day, jr., New York city; Ward Cheney, South Manchester; P. c. Peck, Hudson, N. Y.; G. X. McLanahan Washington, D. C., and H. J. Fisher. | New York city. There is also a large platform which will accommodate the Second regiment band, which will be in attendance. There is a seating capac- ity in the ampitheater for about 2,300 persons. Just back of the space which has been arranged for the class day exercises and in front of the Woolsey statue is a large platform which will be used at the dedication of the statue, which will be held at 12 o'clock m. to- day. With the baccalaureate sermon by President Dwight yesterday the commencement fairly began and the main part of the commencement exer- cises will be held to-day, tomorrow and Wednesday, closing on the latter day.
 The English style of conducting the commencement exercises will be fol- lowed entirely this year. as 1t was in part last year The valedictory and salutatory addresses will be omitted and the senior class will participate in no degree in the exercises to the extent which they formerly have The pre- sentation exercises will be held In Bat | tell chapel at Il o'clock this forenoon and at that time the class poem by A B. Thompson of Hartford will be read and the class oration will be delivered by George S. Buck of Buffalo, N Y. l The exercises at the chapel to-day will be presided over by President Dwight | who will announce the award of fel- lowships to the class of 96 for the com- ing year. Immediately following the presentation exercises the dedicatory services of the Woolsey Memorial statue will be held, at which Rev Joseph H. Twichell of Hartford will de- liver the dedicatory address, and at l:3O the annual meeting of the Law school alumni will take place in the rooms Of the new building on Elm street, be- tween College and Temple. There will be collation. and addresses by proml- nent alumni. Among the visitors ex- pected is Justice Peckham of the Unit ed States supreme court, who will also probably speak The class day exer- ciseS will begin at 3 o'clock and fol- lowing the reading of the histories will come the planting of the class ivy by a committee consisting of T. F. Arch bald of Scranton, Penn, Chauncey w. Wells of Middletown, Conn.,, and w. 5. | WoodhiH of Orange, N. J. At the con- clusion of the class day exercises this afternoon the class, according to cus- tom established in recent years, will march to the residences of various pro- fessors and call for farewell speeches.
 The exercises of the class day will be in charge of a committee consisting of II. P. Cross of Providence, Ralph B. Treadway of Sioux City, Ia, captain of the varsity crew; S. Brinkcrhoff Thorne of New York city, William M. Beard of PoughkeeDsie and Walter H. Clark Of | Hartford.
 At o'clock this evening the senior promenade will be held in Alumni hall, the prom committee being J. K. Berry of Nashville, Tenn, H. P. Cross of Providence, floor manager; Ward Che ney O. South Manchester, Walter H. Clark of Hartford, w. R. Cross of New York city, Fred c. Lee of Trinidad H. i J. Fisher of New York city, Hunting don Taylor of Poughkeepsie and Fred E. Weyerhouser of St. Paul, Minn.
 The alumni meeting will be held at 9:30 tomorrow morning, and at 10 o'clock the polls open in the university l library for the election of member of the corporation to succeed Thomas G. | Bennett of this city, who will be re- elected as he is the only candidate.
 The medical school commencement will be held in Battell chapel at noon tomorrow, and Colonel George D. War ing os New York will deliver an ad- dress on "The Proper Disposal of Sew age"
 At o'clock tomorrow the Yale ! Princeton baseball game, which is the last in the series and will decide the victor of the series, will be played at i Yale field In the evening the annual i C;lee club concert will be held in the Hyperion and will be followed by the senior german in Alumni hall. There i will also be various class reunions in l the various halls about the city on that evening, among the class which will re- unite being those of '93, go, S6, 'S1. 76, l '71. '66, '61. '56, '51, '46, Al, '36 and '31, i At the 93 trienniaI the class cup, which | is presented to that member of the class who first becomes the father of a boy i after graduation. will be presented to ! Theodore T. Bristol of Ansonia, who, with his young son, will be present at l the class supper and receive the cup.