The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-01
YALE ALUMNI DINNER.
Nearly 5000 Graduates Acknowledgements
by Well Known Alumni.

Nearly 5000 Graduates Attend-Speeches
by Well Known Alumni.
The annual Yale alumni dinner was
held yesterday afternoon. The attend
ance was greater than ever before.
nearly three thousand graduates being
present. Upwards Of one thousand
were accommodated in Alumni hall and
the others were seated at long tables
under great circular canopy in front
of Durfee.
The dinner was scheduled for two
o'clock, but owing to the difficulty Of
seating such large crowd it was de-
layed a half hour.
The classes were arranged according
to their seniority, the older ones get
ting tables within the hall and the
younger ones under the canopy. The
classes went to the dinner in a body.
Ali reported at the main gate, and as
soon as one was seated another was
allowed in. Professor Schwab called
off the class numbers, and as he did SO
the members would sweep through the
large gate with terrific cheer. AS the
numbers were taken In order '97 came
last. 1t was not least, however, for the
new graduates yelled long and Justify
and in pouring through the gate caught
the gatekeepers and carried them to the
tables, where they were deposited lit
tie shaken up, but not harmed.
BY 2:30 o'clock the seating was over,
with the exception Of few tardy old
er graduates. The guests of honor We're
seated on the platform of Alumni hall.
They were mostly those gentlemen who
received honorary degrees at the exer-
cises in Battell chapel in the morning.
President Timothy Dwight was not
present owing to the death Of his broth
er, and Judge Henry T.. Howland Of
New York presided. Captain Alfred
Thayer Mahan of the United States
army sat on his right and w. Gordon
McCabe, principal of the university
school of Richmond, Va, on his left
Others about the table of honor were
George Whitefield Chatf1eld the COM
poser; Samuel Harden Church Of Pitts
burg, Arthur M. Huntington of New
York, the eminent Spanish scholar;
Theodore Newe! Ely Of Watertown, N
Y, Edwin Austin Abbey, the artist;
Rev. E. S. Lines, d. D., of this city
the Rev. Professor George Foote Moore
of the Andover Theological seminary,
the Rev DR.. Charles Comfort Tiffany,
archdeacon of the Protestant Episcopal
church in the diocese of New York
There was nothing very elaborate
about the menu, although the courses
were good and apparently much enjoy
ed. BY 3 o'clock this part of the pro-
gramme was over and about every one
was ready for the speeches Some
thing extraordinary was expected, and
the graduates, who had finished their
dinner under the awning, endeavored
to crowd into the hall. They choked
up all the aisles and the entrance, and
during the first three speeches the at
mosphere was almost sitting. Several
old gentlemen had to leave, and others
who wanted to could not fight their
way through the heavy Jam. Several
of the speakers took advantage of this
condition of things to emphasize the
burning necessity of new graduates
hall.
The humidity was very uncomforta-
ble to the fifty ladies present, who We're
assigned the use of the small gallery
facing the speakers chair Conspicu-
Gus among the ladies were Mrs. Wood
ruff. wife of Lieutenant Governor