Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-24
yAlE'S Bl.CENTENNIAL.
Tremendous Crowd in Attendance. j.. Football
and AlIegoricai Performance.


New Haven, Conn. oct. .a-Scholarlv
presentations of the universitys relations
TO affairs. university football. the per
formance of an oratorio. a student pra-
matte performance and a jollihcation in
song by graduates. young and old conSti-
tuted the features OF this days program
OF fale'S gladdest season.
The numbers ran the gamut OF erudite
scholarship, college athletics. profound
music, OLD English drama. and Yale spir-
ii as exhibited III songs ora and new Pc
clliarly the product OF Yale.
The cXuberanU and spectacular demon
Stration Of Monday night with al its ia
ugue seemed not To dampen the enthaS-
iasm Of fale'S happy sons. and another
day Of Ideal weather found everyone. APP
parently. as ready as ever To carry out in
spirit and letter the functions Of the third
day OF the bi-centennial.
Tn" first exercise was held in Battei
chapel. As If to emphasize the fact that
il was al Yale the famous song, Bright
College Years, composed by one of tho
younger sons Of Yale. Henry Strong Dur
rand. class If 1851. Of Rochester. \. Y,
was sung rs II l., always sung by Yale
men. an! rs usual the last line in the
last stanza. Fer God. for Country and
for Yale" rang with reverence, with pa
triotism and with loyalty to the old col
l"ge.
fhe first address was delivered h. o.
rus Northrop. Ii. D.. president al the
University OF Minnesota. a graduate Of
the class OF Yale -. He was introiUcei
ny Hon. VIM. Kneeland Townsend, u. 9.
l.. a jIdge of the United States court
and professor Of contracts. patents and
admiralty Jurisprudence in the Yale law
school. DIR. Northrop's addr, IS presented
Yale il its relation 10 the development
Of the country.
The hymn lord Of All Being. Throned
Afar.' was sung and the second and last
address al the day was delivered by Dan
lei L. Gilman. Ii. D.. Yale. %, president
,.r TIppl-tpc I-riIarSitN L.
introduced BY Thomas Haynes Ford
Lounes5ury. l.. II. u. II. p. professor ot
Esglish in the Sheffield Scientific school.
He treated OF the relation OF Yale Uni
ver>ity to letters and science.
The Varsity football eleven defeated
Bates. y to o. this afternoon. after which
football of an extraordinary character
was witnessed by tn" bi-ccntennial guests
at Yale field when team composed Of
the most famous stars among Yale's for
mer players lined up against the sub uni
Nersitv eleven in halves of 10 minutes
each. Despite the fact that they were
undisciplined and unconditioned. III,
great veterans outplayed their younSer
rivals from start to finish. and during tht
contest the stars goal was never in dan
GER. while the old timers succeeded IN
making two toIchdowus. both OF which
Were converted into goals. The score.
stars. y; second eleven, o.
In a great amphithCatre bedeCked II.
blue and illUmined by long strings of or
ange-hued lanterns and Greek fire flaming
ana smoking skYWard from poles cree
rd about the campus, the sons Of fa!e
witnessed. tonight. an alleSorlCal per
Torrance by the dramatic association OF
the university and listened TO the songs
of the students chorus drilled especially
fer this feature of the bi-centenniai c".e
bratiuu. Tn" amphitheatre was erected
in the center of the old campus. facing
South Middle oormitory. in front OF
which the temporary stage Tor the anna
teur performance was built. On this open
,i- St. hA he a
Dramatic Association. under the leader
ship of Frank Lee Short, as stage dilect-
or, presented performance SNmhDut oi
successive events in the history OF lalH.
The founding Of the collegiate school
in l1Ul was the first scene, picturlnS tnc
house ~ Rev Mr. Russell Of Brantord
where 10 clergymen We're gathered, each
bringing the treasured volumes Wh!ch ne
had promised for the establishment OF IN
new college. Following this was a scene
representing the removal Of the school 4
brary from Saybrook to New Haven AZ
ter the struggle in which GOV. Saltonstall
a sheriff and citizens of New Haven play
prominent parts: then an inspection by
Cen Washington Of the Yale company OF
volunteers and next an enectlNe tabIedu
Of the execution of Nathan Hale the
martyr-Spy
Other scenes depicted the quain ceremo-
mics of initiation into the old freshman
OF Euclid" glimpscs of life about the MS
toric Yale fence by day and night the
interior of q student room; typical o.
things familiar To every graduate anu
the finale showing the students in chapel
Between each of the scenes there were
familiar college songs by the student cho-
rus. in which all the thousands of grad
yates ranged abdhIt the amphlthcatre
heartily particle ated. Several bands were
stationed on the campus and at intervals
added to the musical demonstration OF
the evening -,
The "Boola" song was given win az
unction never known before, when A. VI
Hirsh. its composer, Of the class OF 1871
known Familiarity as Pop. the catcher
of the base ball team FOR two years. aroS'
from his seat in response to numerous
calls from the amphitheatre ana person.
ally led the great chorus.
While the campus celebration was
largely of private character. restrlc'el
to the wearers Of blue badges and Their
friends the general public was not win
out sources of entertainment. The New
Haven green was again brililant to!lSht
with ropes and stars Of many-hued cleo
tric lights. and as an addition to the illu-
mination the whole green was ehclrcieu
with colored lanterns. a band conceT,
was given there in the early part OF the
evening. .
one Of the most notable exercises OF
the dav was the choral performance by
the Gounod Society of New HaEen OF tne
oratoro "IIora Novis>lina ms Lro
duction. the work of Horatio farher Bat
tell professor of theory OF music IN the
university. was given in the hyperion
theatre at 40 this afternoon, uhdef inc
COMPOSERS personal direction