The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-25
THE YALE COMMENCEMENT
EVENTS WHICH MARK THE CLOSE
or THE COLLEGE, YEAR.

shelf Class Day Held Saturday and
Academic CInss Day IS To-day-Prize
Awards I'm the Scientific schooI-Lnw
school Commencement To-day and
That of the Medical school Tomorrow
The annual commencement crowd OF
guests has again invaded New haven
and hundreds of fond parents and ad-
miring sisters and sweethearts are IN
the civ TO attend the exercises when
attend the close of college year Many
of tho guests arrived last Friday and
Saturday, and more came yes'eruaS'
while some are expected this morning.
those who are especially interested III
the academic commencement, OF winch
one of the chief events Will be the class
day exercises this afternoon.
The Shelf. class day was held Satur-
dav The Shelf seniors and their friends
assembled about 10 o'clock Saturday
morning in the huge amphitheater
erected on the campus, the spectators
occupying the tiers Of seats on the SIDE
while the members Of the class sat on
benches on the ground in the mlddie
of the amphitheater. The brass oaho
filled the seats on the platform con-
structed directly in front of the stu
| den+s The seniors listened to the read
ing of the class histories, giving the
Yale cheer for every man as MS history
was read All the seniors wore the cas-
sic mortar board cap and trailing PACK
gown and smoked the class pipes wh'ie
the reading of the histories was In pro-
gress.
rnterspersed with the histories were
number Of old Yale songs which were
sung by the class after the band had
struck up the air The histories were
read NV Herman A. Webster, Chicago;
Trumbull Kelly, West Superior, Wis; c.
III. Lockwood, Stamford, Conn, ana l.
r. LYON. New Orleans. The class day
committee. which was In charge of the
EXERCISES consisted Of the following
members: Edwin Hill Clark, Chicago;
Howard Richards. IT,, New York city;
| Alfred knight Chlttenden New Haven;
C. j. Parker, Coventryvlle, n. Y" ana
Roland whitney Belts Brooklyn.
| Saturday afternoon the annual recep-
tton to the senior class by the faculty
was given in winchester hall 1t was
attended by the members of the scten-
fife department of Yale, their friends
who are here for the Yale commence
ment. and many Of the alumni OF the
school
The class day Of the academic depart
ment will be held this afternoon on the
canpus Seating accommodations for
$50 have been provided in the new
anphitheater, which will accommodate
about 400 more persons than the amphi-
theater of last year The class poem
will be read by Kenneth Bruce of
BROOKLYN N. Y. The class Grafton will
| be by l. d. Dana Of Lewiston, Me.
The new Yale fence, given by William
r. Emo Of New York city, a member OF
the class of 1882, is now completed. 1t
will run from Battell chapel, along near
Durfee hall TO Dwight hall.
| At noon to-day there will be a meet
ing of the Yale Law School Alumni as
srriation, with collation. and addresses
in the law school building. At 9 O'Clock
this afternoon the anniversary exercises
of the law school will be held In Col
| lege street hall, instead OF in the new
! law school building, as had been plan
ned. the new building not being quite
finished At these exercises the Hon
w. Bourke Cochran of New York will
address the law school on The Lawyer
of the Next Generation" After Mr.
Cockran's speech the Townsend prize
speaking contest will be held, The three
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w Powell of Lathrope. Pa; Fl. p
Palmer of Des Moines, la, and Walter
Durham Makepeace Of Springfield
Mass.
This evening the Glee club concert
Will be held in the Hyperion theater
being followed by the senior promenade
in Alumni hall.
Tomorrow morning there will be 6
meeting of the alumni of the medica
school and at noon the school VIII bt
addressed by l. NJ, De Costa, M, D., LII
/ D.. of Philadelphia, on Questions OF
the Day in Medicine.
During the morning the polls will be
open in the Chittenden library for The
election of a new member of the corpo
ration In the afternoon there will be
meetings of twelve of the classes the
earliest one being that of 1S4O.
On Wednesday morning at 10 a. m, G
procession, headed by the members OF
the senior class, will form at the library
and solemnly march across the campus
to the chapel. where the commencement
exercises of the graduating class will be
held. At O'Clock in the afternoon the
alumni dinner will be held i'm Alumni
hall and the last event of the week vii
be the presidents reception. from to i
o'clock in the evening, in the Ar
school building
The faculty Saturday morning an
nounced the following senior appoint
lments, based on the work of the grad
uating class during its four years
course.
Philosophical orations-Albert b. Var
Buren,, Lynn, Mass; Frank e, Hale
Hartford: Sidney A. Weston Sharon
Mass; Thomas w. Swan, Northamp
ton, Mass; George L. Hinckley, North
ampton, Mass; Herman M. Opitz, Nor