The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-19
DR.. HADLEY AS PRESIDENT.
TALES NEW EXECUTIVE FORMALLY
INSTALLED IN OFFICE.
Simple Ceremonies in BRttell Chapel with
an Address by tho New President-Many
College DiEnitaries Present Much Tn
drrRraduats Enthusinsn I, Let on


an Address by the New President-Many
College DiEnitaries Present Much I'm
drrgraduate Enthusinsni Is Let on
NEW HAVEN. Oct. 1S.-Yale University
its corporation. fellows aud visiting dig
nitaries inaugurated Arthur Twining Had
ley as President this afternoon. with
all tho ceremony that was behtting an
event OF such Importance The ceremonies
were begun and ended with prayers by the
venerable retiring President tho Rev. Dr.
Timothy Dwight, The Inauguration process
sion and the ceremonies were participated in
by Presidents Harris Of Amherst. Faunce OF
Brown. Thomas Of Bryn Mawr. Low OF
Columbia. Tucker OF Dartmouth. Gallau-
Diet OF Galaudet. Stryker OF Hamilton.
Eliot Of Harvard. Gilman OF Johns Hopkins.
Brown Of Lehigh Seeley OF Smith. Barrows OF
Oberlin. Patten OF Princeton. Taylor OF Nassar.
Hazard OF Wellesley Waters OF Wells. Carter OF
Williams. and Thwing OF Western Reserve.
The japanese Minister was present with q
number Of his attaches. The Governor OF
Connecticut and his staff in all its glory was
there
Tonight New Haven between the Yale Col
lege quadrangle and President Hadley's homo
on Whitney avenue has been the scene OF the
noisiest and most spectacular undergraduate
celebration that Yale University or any other
university has ever known not excepting
25Oth anniversary OF Harvard and Prince
toms l5Oth anniversary cele bration OF recent
memory Ever since the end OF the sum
mer vacation the Yale undergraduate has
bent all his energies to making the night o
the Inauguration OF President Hadley mem
orable occasion in the history OF Yale. 1t is
significant Of the policy OF the coming admin
istration that the boys were rather en-
couraged to make the demon stration as noisy
apI F,,n ~ sd A,a tlay rhap
could not have done much more. Before the
formal exercises began In the chapel to-day
men without coats or waistcoats we're working
like ships Triggers strinRing lines for lanterns
from elm branch to elm branch and from
building to building.
There were more who wanted to help than
there were wires to string and the rest stood
about in groups OF from five to hun
dred oritcising the labOrs OF their
brethren aloft and letting of the ratchet
wheel long cheer. first for President Dwight
and then for President Hadley. The fence
was lined four deep. and the old college cho-
ruses rolled up and down from Alumni Hall
and Old North College AS they seldom do.
All ROTATIONS for the day were dismissed
The people who came out of chapel after the
ceremonies there were concluded found that
the quadrangle had been changed into a fairy
land. Loops Of Chinese lanterns followed
every row OF elms. high up among
the branches. The roof OF Dwight Hall.
the Old and New Library and Alumni
Hall. were outlined with red lanterns.
Between the remnants OF the old Brick and the
row OF newer dormitorles parallel to them were
hung Chinese lanterns in the form OF great Us
half as high as the buildings themselves.
Tho evening procession began to form on the
quadrangle at O'Clock. Every undergraduate
had been supplied with a red. yellow
blue. green or orange-coored aca-
demc cap and gown. according to his
class and rank in the parade. Each one
had q torch. They gathered by classes
and therefore by colors. the three
upper classes along their section OF the
fence and the unfortunate freshmen out
in the open. The scene was brilliant be-
fore the torches were lighted. and while only
tho electric lights and the lanterns
lit up the masses OF color. But once
they saw themselves and one another in the
light of their own torches the young men
went beside themselves for Joy Their
transports were only exceeded by a delegation
from the Yale Club OF Now York. which all in
gowns OF dark blue wandered about in
darkness looking for a band from Hartford
which the delegation plaintively insisted it
must have When tho band was found the
New Workers. with some OF the resident grad
the stately measures OF cake walk melody
Great was the edifcaton OF the simple under
graduate at a man OF letters whose name 10
known wherever this mails carry newspapers
and who was a not uncomfortable part OF this
pleasing diversion.
Football Capt. Mcbride. who was the
Grand Marshal OF the parade. gave the word
to start. The college men had by this
time been Joined by the representa-
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more than two thousand mon pranced out
through the Phelps gateway after Mcbride.
keeping fanciful steps to the strains Of
brass bands. They left behind them
quadrangle in which every window was
lighted. From every window hung Yale
nag. Great beacon bursts OF red fire hured
up every minute or two from the roofs OF
the higher buildings. The procession
went out to Chapel street. around
the New Haven green and was reviewed
by Mayor Driscoll before going on it's
way to President Hadey's house. 1t
was led by most remarkable
float locomotive and train
OF three cars each thirty feet lone and four feet
high The engine pulled real smoke. The en-
CINE and each car displayed in TRANSPARENCY a
a college numera. In the car windows were
Sllohouttes Yale celebrities from Nose" tho
old clothes man to Walter Camp. the athletic
mentor OF the University.
Each car bore the label "Hadley Trans
portaton Co." In the door of the
baggage car was outline sketch OF Dr.
Chauncey u. Depsw in baggageman's
jumper and with red cap hustling
trunk. Transrarsncies born on either side
of the train bore the inscriptions "A new Train
Of Thought" and Yale is on the Right
Ira ck'
The Sheffield Scientific school float was q blast
furnace in full operation. The theoogucs car
ried church and also the legend. "Hurrah for
the first layman". in reference to the fact that
DR. Hadley is Yale's first president who has not
been q Congregational minister The Law
school had transparency portrayinE Judge
William X. Townshend and the Hon. Simeon
Baldwin riding Elihu Yale on rail over the
legend: THE Bench and Bar support Yale"
The procession passed ia sections before
| President HadlSy's house and was there ad-
dressed In lighter vein by President HAdley.
| President Eliot Of Harvard and by Dean Chit
| tenden.