The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-27

ton and POem-The Glass Histories l and the Ivy P1anting-Presidcnt-I Elect HadIey Addresses the Boys of '99--Ya Law School Exercises-O Grafton by Att torney General Griggs-The Award Of Medical School Exercises To-day Ball | Game To-day-The GIee Club Concert To-night.-CIass srppers, Etc. Yesterdays exercises of commences ment week began under very favorable auspices The sky was clear and every thing was perfect for Q delightful day, both for the graduates and commence ment guests. The alumni arrived in large numbers all during the day, and by noon the regular commencement aspect was in evidence in and about the campus. The hotels are packed with pretty girls and their mothers, and yes terday mornings exercises ill Battell chapel brought them out in large num- bers
 The exercises of the day opened with the reading of the class poem and the class oration. The class poem was read by Howard Chandler Robbins of Spring field, Mass, and the class oration was delivered by George Dana Graves of Manchester, N. H. Both productions were excellent and reflect great credit on their authors. The chapel was well filled there being many old graduates. The exercises opened with prayer by President Dwight, which was followed by the reading of the class poem, which concluded as follows:
 Then, strong young life, Gird thee with strength as with sword,
 and face That which awaits-thy doom is on thee; Fret not thy heart because of coming For life is change, and growth Is change. A change from good to best What though
 thy path
 Forsake the way of joy, dip sharply down, And plunge thee in sordid world of men, Oh, haply in some darker hour give hint @ Of baftled hope, of unavailng strife? The brighter hope thou needest forego, The dream of youth thon needest not re- So thou prove true to both, wrestling at Triumph from doubt, and from the dark
 a song
 Fear not defeat, for in thy hands Is The issue of thy strife. nor aas auglt
 power
 To make thee less than victor, if thou
 wilt
 Fear only ths lest thou be found at last Short of the utmost bounds of strife. con-
 tent % While the goal lies beyond thee-yea, fear
 this!
 For this is shame beyond all shame, and
 this Idfe's sole defeat-see that it be not thine. But if at times sudden doubt arise. Lest earth be it's own bound, and lfe a
 dream..
 And God the truth dream. then call thy
 faith For thou hast need-and crush the doubt
 in time
 Lest, growing strong, it palsy hope and
 will.
 o fearless faith, that with unwearfed
 wing starlike hast burned thy heaven-attaining
 way, Forgetfu of what earlier hope to pause.
 fOrego ~ His pristine aim, so fail at last to win Abiding place that God accounteth great Since half the strenuous rapture of thy Was heritage of unremembered need That sought no aid, nor grace Of guiding
 hand,
 Be this our hope never i'll utmost StrulC Through vain desire of thine averted face To cast between thy sunlight and It's Some earth-tlung, sudden shade. but strain
 ing on With foct defiant of all hindrance To strive in fitting silence, that the dawn May find us-unestranged of alien end- Standing on snow-crowned hills, auStere
 and still,
 Whence strife and triumph shall cOnspife,
 so blend
 To unima aginable chords of peace!
 MT. Graves oration was a fine re- view as a literary composition, and was well delivered. In opening he spoke in poetical terms of the discovery by Bill boa, after weeks of toll and hardship, of the Pacific ocean. It was grand scene for contemplation. The graduat- ing class to-day looked out upon life's wellworn sea ahead. Our nation has made immense progress in a century and Yale has done likewise. Selections from the oration follow:
 Above the roaring life of the century rings out the cheer which bids Us re- that Yale, the mother of col- leges, is the greater mother of men,
 Yesterday we toiled to-day we look, but soon we must sail the great deep''
 DO we, men of the twentieth cen- tury, truly despise the red ochre, the the glitter of crown? We have, indeed, well defined terms for the of the extended we call him who acts for the appearance in the church, hypocrite; in the state, politt- elan; in the school, pedant; in society, sycophant and in the business world simply a fool Into the tentacles of this devil fish each may have been unwil- lingly drawn, but what shall we say to him who shall choose the life of exten- sion? He hath not learned that the ceaselees effort of gravitation will at ! last bring each to his true level?"
 Life is force building; death is force changing; in atom and star, in all sub- stance from the grain of sand to the soul of man lives this law of being; the never sleeping, never-resting force, which changeth not, but abideth for, aver."
 Tn all races of men the essential idea il the object of worship is power. The ethical idea is modern, put even now we cannot shake off the conception of some innate force in the right which in- connects it with the substra- -um of things. We now talk of the night of right, but is not right a syno-