The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-28
CONNIE nee MENT WEEK
BaCCaIaureate Sermon to the
Undergraduates by PreSi-
dent Dwight in Bat
tell Chapel.
WORDS TO THE CLASS OF '97
ALUMNI IND FRIENDS POURING
INTO THE CITY.

Plans for the 197th Commencoment-Ac
demic Department Presentations To-day
Glass Day Exercises in the Quadrangle
Law School Anniversary in College
Street Hall-Need of IA Larger Auditorium
Apparent-Award of Prizes at Shetfield-
Historic Procession Through the Green
Features of the Weeks Observances-
Arrivals at the Various Hotels.
Ideal weather, blue skies and cool
breezes marked the formal opening of
Yale's commencement week yesterday
when the baccalaureate sermon to the
undergraduates was delivered by Presi-
dent Dwight in Battell chapel.
Already there is about the city and
the classic shades of Ellis elns increas-
ing signs of the hustle and activity
which marks the closing of the year at
the great university.
Friday and Saturday friends of the
graduating students commenced arriv-
ing in the city on every train and hotels
and private boarding houses are fast
filling up with guests
Most of the early arrivals are of the
fair sex and mothers and sisters and
other fellows sisters are already here
in goodly numbers.
Old graduates are not very numerous
as yet, but will be on hand in large
numbers to attend and enliven the
Yale Harvard ball game on Tuesday
BY that day multitude of Yale's
friends will be on hand for the grand
finale of Wednesday. Yesterday Bat
tell chapel was not large enough to
seat all who came to join in the service
and late corners experienced great ditfl-
Guilty in securing seats.
The center aisles of the chapel were
reserved entirely for members of the
graduating classes who attended in
body clad in the regulation black gown.
The seats in the galleries and tram
cepts were filled with visitors, ladies
predominating in number. The music
was composed of the usual congrega-
tional singing. The college choir un-
der the direction of Harry b. Jepson,
director of music at Battell chapel, ren-
dered several beautiful selections.
President Dwight's address to the
young men parting words of farewell,
congratulating them upon the work
they had accomplished and urging
upon them the demands of the life upon
which they are about to enter. The
address was earnest, sympathetic and
practical.
The graduating class arose and stood
as his last parting words were spoken.
The service closed with the singing
of the doxology, as is customary at all
the Sunday services at the college.
On this occasion the praise God
From Whom All Blessings Flow was
sung with power and earnestness by the
500 students and their friends. 10 the
students it was the last chapel service
of their four years course,
President Dwight's text for the bac-
calaureate was as follows:
Cor. H., 1911, FINALLY, brethren fare
well"
Cor. l., 1913, "Quit you like men"
Cor l., 1920, "All the brethren salute
you"
Cor. l., 1924, "My love be with you
ALL"
Cor l.. 1921, "The salutation of me,
Paul, with mine own hand"
Phil. 81. Finally, my brethren, re-
joice.'
He said, in part: "1n accordance
with an interesting and pleasant Gus
tom. which was established a century
ago, and which has been handed down
to us from the fathers, our last Sunday
service in each academic year is espe-
ciaIly devoted to the utterance of few
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aeement, or of Christian fellowship and
friendship. These words are spoken to
the company of young men who, having
completed their course of undergradu-
ate study, are about to leave the home
of their college life and go forth into
new scenes and spheres of action
After recounting the features Of the
baccalaureate, as it had become a per-
manent Yale and college custom, he
continued:
ST congratulate you on what will be
accomplished in your lifetime. The fu-
ture waits to reveal itself. l stand be-
fore you at this hour and what do I
see? A company of young men who
k:;ow nothing of the experience of the
great questions of the beginning of the
last half century. Those twenty-five
years made the world a new world.
But these triumphant victories are
not the final victories. The century to
come will have it's own successes.
grander than any Of the past. To say
farewell in your case is to say rejoice.
You are to live in the twentieth century
and to live for the forward movement
of the times. There can be no question
cf the force of those statements, if you
are to live at all. for the years of the
nineteenth century are ended. The
latter statement must hold equally true
with regard to you, if your life in the
future is to be worthy of your calling
as educated men, and to answer in a
fit measure to the privilege bestowed
upon you in the university years What,
we have only to ask. will be the manly
part in the forward movement? 1t will
be, first of all things, in the case of each
one of you, to be a man in your own
personal life. The forward movement
is a movement for and towards the best
manner of living for each and every