The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-26
INFRINGEMENT At YALE
GEEAT THRONG ATTENDING THE
MANY EXERCISES.

Day Exercises Holu IN 'he AiteFhooh
The Yale Law schooI-Address by
Eourke Cockrun-Thc Townsend
Prize Speaking aud Award of Prizes
The GIee Club Concert and senior
German Last Night-ro-dNy's Pre-
gramme.
The festivities of commencement week
opened with the usual excitement ana
with the usual number of out-of-toWn
visitors yesterday and will continue I'M
til Wednesday evening, when the great
majority of the guests of the college
men will depart for New London, the
scene of the closing event of the great
week
large number of commencement
guests arrived Saturday and Sunday,
but yesterday morning fully half of all
those coming to New Haven We're
brought to the city.
The great crowd, however, will be in
creased almost two-fold by noon to-day,
as many of the graduates and their
friends and families have put off COM
ing until just time enough to be car
red out to the Yale field this afternoon
to witness the annual commencement
ball game between Yale and Harvard.
The crowd that, from all indications,
will attend the game promises to be
record crowd for New Haven, fully TO-
900 people it is believed will be on hand
at o'clock the hour for calling the
game.
The exercises held yesterday were all
held under the very best conditions, the
day being cloudess and the tempera-
ture about right, though under the can
opy which held the class day specta
tors, it was rather warm yet not I'M
comfortable.
The crowd is a typical commencement
throng, representing fashion beauty
and wealth from all parts of the United
States The mother. sister, father and
of course the best girl of every member
of the graduating class are in New Ha-
ven and will attend all the exercises
that come on the programme.
The exercises opened yesterday with
the class grafton in Battell chapel at IL
o'clock
THE CLASS GRAFTON.
The class Grafton by Jesse Dwight
Dana of Brookline Mass, interestingly
compared the tendencies of Yale and
Harvard. Mr. Dana in opening spoke
retrospectively concerning his class and
its memories of four years at Yale with
its failures and successes. Before the
graduating class now opens the future,
the actual struggle of life 1T is not
the course of study. but the character of
the college life which marks and inf1u-
ences mans later career. Universities
are like sculptures chiseing away with
the same model before them. The cas-
ual observer, as he stops for moment
to watch the flying chips of marble, can
see no difference in the work. but the
artist quickly detects superior skill in
one or the other
The difference between Yale and Har-
ward lay deeper than was implied bv the
stock phrases "Aristocracy and Democ-
racy" TT lies in the two principles
which have been inherent in our two
universities ever since their foundation
by our Puritan fathers These princi-
pies are: liberalism. manifesting itself
as indvidualism in the one, and conser-
vatism in the other
"It is the aim and tendency of life at
OuI SISTER university 10 1l1QlVlQuallTe a
man-to seek by culture and refinement
to mark him out for the great mass of
Philistines. to make him one of the chos-
en- people.
"Yale's conservatism walks hand in
hand with our tradition. It perneates
our athletics. our college notifications.
we find it in the class room and in
every branch of college life From This
more than anv thing else has come orr
spirit of unity. and from that unitv
come those determine five traits of char
acter which, distinguish and always
have distinguished the Yale man
"Our class stands on the threshold he
tween the old Yale and the new the old
Yale with its conservatism. ifs denooc-
racy and unity: the new Yale which Is
merging the college into the university
AS men we form an internediata tvna
between the old distinctive Vale man
with his earnestness of character bis
somewhat narrow idaas of c,,1+ura ora
the new TYNE combining chorac+ar Wifi,
broadening views of culture II is for
fbe new Vale to cuI1 out Of tho ,as+ oil
that which is best and m hold 1ovo1l,,
to If Th aSrnost nrecious laoacv which
the o,d Yale has ia beoueath 70 tho new
Is the tr,1e element of rnocracv-aoua1.