The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-17

mittee rooms, he is expected to be perfectly
good on the floor Of the Convention.
J. ]. D.
COMMENCEMENT AT YALE.
Exercises Begin Friday and Will
Continue Nearly n Week.
NEW HAVEN, June 16.-Yale University
begins her 199th commencement next
| week The celebration will close the first
year of President Hadley's term of office.
Next year-Yale's bi-centennial-the
greater part OF the celebration will go
over until the fall, when the university
will celebrate its 200th anniversary.
Commencement will begin next Friday
afternoon with the speaking for the De-
Forest prize medal in Battell Chapel. The
following named seniors will compete:
Herbert B. Fuller, Glen Ridge, N. j.;
Maurice P. Gould, Wamego. KAN; Henry
T. Hunt Cincinnati, Ohio; William NJ.
man, Portland, Ore, and Charleton b.
Thompson, Covington, Ky. Saturday will
be given over to the senior class and
the graduates of the Scientific School. In
the morning, at 1890, the Sheffield class
day will be held on the lawn in front
of Sheffield within an amphitheatre seat
ing 1000 guests.
The historians who will read the annual
'grinds'' on their classmates will be as
follows: Ransom H. Gillett, Dorset. VT;
Charles ID. Lockwood, Stamford, Conn;
H. A. Webster, Chicago; Irving L. Lyons,
OF New Orleans, and Trumbull Kelly, Of
West Superior. Wis. In the afternoon,
from until I. the Scientific School men
will receive their friends in the various
society halls, and in Winchester Hall there
will be a large reception by President
Hadley.
Sunday, June "a, will be Baccalaureate
Sunday, the first in Yale's history when
the final address to the students has not
been by clergyman. President Hadley
will occupy the Battell pulpit and will de-
liver a commencement address. Monday.
June %, will begin the week OF commence
ment proper. AT II a. N. the usual pre-
sentation exercises of the graduating
class will be held in Battell, at which
President Hadley will preside, Kenneth
Bruce of Brooklyn, n. y, will read the
poem. and Jesse Dwight Dana of Lewis
ton. Me-, will deliver the class GRAFTON.
At D. m. the alumni and graduating
class of the law school will meet for the
annual collation. and addresses. W. Bourke
Cochran. of New York, will be the princi-
pal speaker.
The Law School alumni probably will
assemble in College Street Hall, as the
new Law School building is not yet COM
pleted. The afternoon of Monday will be
devoted to the graduating class Of the
college. At O'Clock the annual class day
exercises will be held on the campus be-
tween the library and south middle, with
music by the Second Regiment Band OF
this city. Glass histories will be delivered
of all Va
Ashley Day Leavitt, of Me'rase, Mass;
Charleton Brice Thompson, of Covingto1,
KY; Maurice p. Gould OF Wamego, Kan..,
and Edward B. HILL of Workers, n. Y.
After the class day exercises the class Will
march in cap and gown around the campus,
cheering the several buildings, and will
plant the class ivy, which this year has
been obtained from Lincoln's tomb.
The annual exercises OF the Yale Law
School will take place in College Street
Hall at o'clock. The Townsend prize
speaking will be held then and an ad-
dress to the graduating class will be made
by W. Bourke Cochran, of New York, on
THE Lawyer OF the Next Generation.
The senior promenade in Alumni Hall will
be held Immediately after the Glee Cub
concert in the Hyperion. in the evening.
Tuesday, June 20, will be alumni day.
At $3.50 the annual alumni meeting will be
l.
nual business session of the Yale Medical
School Alumni Association. in the Medical
School. From 10 a. IN. until 1 p. IN. the
polls will be open In the university library
for the election of member of the cor
pOration to succeed Senator Chauncey VI.
Depew, whose term expires. Nix. Depew
in all probability will be elected to sue
coed himself. At noon on Tuesday Prof.
]. NJ Da Costa, NJ. D., LII. D., of Philadei-
NH ,,-in adj he on
tions of the Day in Medicine Various
class meetings will also be held during the
day at different times and places. In the
afternoon will come the Yale-Haivard
baseball game at the Yale Field
Commencement falls on Wednesday AT
10 a. IN. the annual procession of gradu-
ates and candidates for degrees will form
on the campus and march down across the
public green to Centre Church. thence to
exercises will be held For the first time
in the history of the university an ode
composed and set to music by undergradr-
ates will be sung at commencement. 1t IS
entitled IAN Ode for Commencement Day.
and is composed by j. w. Barney 1900 of
New York City. and set to music by d. g
Smith, 1900 of Toledo.
Prof S s. Stanford the head of the Yale
Music School, will conduct the singing. and
by Prof H. w. Parker, Will assist AT
p. m. the dinner of the alumni will be held
in Alumni Hall. with speaking until even
ing. The ceremonies of the week will end
with reception to the president in the
art school at night.
More than 200 diplomas will be awarded,
as follows: Academic. 1924; scientific, 1872
medical school. rs: law school. So: music
school, 70: candidates for doctorate, Sc.
The classes to hold reunions this year
will be 1910. 1850. 1855 1860. 1865, 1870,
1875, 1880. 1855, 1890, 1894, and 1897. Among
the graduates whose classes will hold re-
unions are Curtis Field Durnham at one
time Assistant Secretary of the United
States Treasury; Prof James NJ Hoppin
Yale; the Rev. DR.. Leonard W. Bacon,
Charles Ray Palmer. Fellow OF Yale; Prof
d. Cady Eaton Yale; Judge E. p. Adams
United States Court of Missouri; Treasurer
Morris F. Tyler. OF Yale.
The SIime Old CarpetbnE.
(Frc!n the Chicago Record.)