The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-21

church. All of these churches are To-
Gated on the historic green adjacent to
the college property and for many years
the college commencement exercises
were held in Center church.
PLANNED ON MAGNIFICENT SCALE
The entire celebration will be a noble
commemoration and is planned on a scale
of nlagnificence never before undertaken
universities and colleges of this country
and Europe will send delegates, and many
portance will be represented at the bicen-
tennial About 1900 graduates will come.
ing the families and friends of Yale's
II, 900 living graduates Yale will signalize
degrees upon a large number of the most
distinguished men of this country and Eu-
The president of the United States will
participate in the celebration, coming to
grafton day. The university and the city
will unite in an enthusiastic welcome to
him. secretaries Hay ana Root, several OF
the supreme court Justices leading men
of letters from our own and other coun-
leaders of the church, in addition to the
large body of leading educators who come
as representatives of institutions of learn
ing, will signalize the great occasion by
Their 9resencf, n Among 5ne tdehlegates from
Wrentham, Wales. where Elihu Yale is
Music is to be great feature of the BIZ
centennial. The choral performance Of
chestral society Tuesday, and a concert
by the. Boston Symphony, orchestra win
make it a notable, musical week. But in
addition to this there will be orchestral
and choral music and the rendering of
sions, and thirty visiting bands, number
torchlight procession. President Hadley
class of 1876 will bring with them the
sides the special programme of singing by
the students one will hear by day and by
l3 a nd stu coaf ene 10y
ADDR REssES BY ENIINENT MEN.
and various addresses by eminent visitors
will take place. Yale in Its Relation to
lation to the Development of the Coun-
try, Yale in Its Relation to Science and
will be given Wednesday by Justice Brew
er of the United States supreme court, the
ence stedman and dedicatory address by
the venerable Donald G. Mitchell, whose
The two great festive occasions typical
of university life and history will be the
dent dramatic performance and singing
in the campus amphitheater Tuesday
of graduates and students and will num-
Der about 1000 men in uniform or costume.
been specially designed for each class
The procession will be led by the class of
Taft's Filipino bodyguard. The music of
many bands, college songs and class yells,
feature of Yale professions, the glare of
thousands of torches through the long
green gariands and long lines of orange
lanterns will be weird, unique and
memorable a sight as any dream of fairy
DRAMATIC SHOW TO BE UNIQUE.
The students dramatic performance will
be another great spectacle. An immense
stage and an amphitheater to seat 5000
has been built on the campus. Ten thou
sand lanterns have come from Paris to
illuminate the campus Hundreds of stu
in the singing, but under professional di-
rection Among .Ana the panfoWimes Mt VdIn to be
THE Military Muster at, at Yale for the War
Nathan Hale Scenes From the Visit of
Washington to New Haven" Taking the
Fence" and an old-fashioned freshman So
c1ety initiation.
The bicentennial fund of 100000 was
completed some months ago and $1,000,00o
is being put into new buildings. The Yale
recently opened and is the largest dining
hall in the world. Woodbridge hall, the
Administration building and the Ives
Cheney Memorial gateway will be dedi-
ca ted during this celebration: Memorial
hall, the Auditorium and the Christian as
sociation building are now well under
way.
fittingly g. notable epoch, but best of all it
will usher in a new and greater one for
old Yale
PRESIDENT STARTS NORTHWARD.
Washington, Oct. 21.-President Roose-
velt, accompanied by Secretary Cortel-
you, Assistant Secretary Barnes and
one two members of the White House
staff, will leave this afternoon via the
Conn The party will travel in a private
car attached to one of the regular trains.
The president will spend a brief time at
Pennington with his sister, Mrs. Cowles,
before going to New Haven, where he
is to receive the degree of LII d. from
Yale. Inasmuch the trip is private
one, no details concerning it are made
public.