The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-21
.YALE'S GREAT CELEBRATION
DISTRIB OF COMMEMORA- M TIVE MEDALS.

They Will be Awarded ut the Ar
 school October eI-CongrotuIntions
 to Visiting Delegates, Foreign and American Ca didates for Honorary
 Degrees for Dramatics-
 Historical Exhibition.
 Tiffany & Company. of New York,
 have begun to strike the commemora-
 tive medal designed by Behia Platt. in c0mmemoration of the coming Yale
 celebration. These medals will be x distributed to the institutions of learn ing represented at the coming cele- Duration, as well as to a select number
 of prominent guests present. The
 distribution will take place at the re-
 ception of delegates and representa-
 tives in the Trumbull Art Gallery, on
 Monday, October 21 At the cere-
 Mony Prof. George P. Fisher, D. D.,
 senior dean of the university, will act
 as master of ceremonies. On the fol- lowing day the medals will be on sale to graduates and guests at the univer- sity library.
 The reception in the art school will be preceded by formal presentation of scOngratulation to the delegates of for ! eign and American institutions of learning. The ceremony will occur in X Baftell Chapel, at which Prof. Fisher x will also act as master of ceremonies. IN Immediately before each literary function the president, corporation 6elegates, and other specially invited sguests will assemble in Dwight hall { And proceed in procession to their
 piaces in the chapel The academic X ScoStumes worn by this distinguished < body of men will make the procession s II striking one.
 The plans for the central commem- X 0rative function are slowly being per-
 4ected The candidates for honorary
 H6Grees will be presented by Professors
 3e0rge J. Bush. formerly head of Shelf { 4ield Scientific school, Bernadotte Per fin. Theordore s. Woolsey and George
 B. Stevens. They will in turn intro
 xitice the distinguished recipients Of the
 Various honorary degrees conferred, re- ss citing theid leading distinctions. After y having the degree conferred upon them Sff1e official ushers will place Yale { 4tod upon the shoulders of each can
 dtdate.
 Rss8t With the opening of college on the
 &6th, active preparations for the dra- 4natic functions on October 22 will be X 3s86uned. Dr. E. s. Reed has returned { xr0nn Europe and will be actively en-
 zaRed superintending the multitude or etAils that function calls for.
 The dimensions and slope of the x ntage to be erected in the middle of z 4he campus have been definitely set fled in consultation with the dramatic 3fiaflager, Frank Lea Short. The cur> HIN scenery, and draperies are being x STfepared and the various pantomines Worked out. They will cover the lead- *if1r Historical events fin the 200 years 5f YAle history They call for at least Y 1YD00 costumes and at times several hundred students appear together on fine stage.
 A collection Of the works of John Isrunlbull to which has been added sssn6pIelnentary collection of the works t,f Adeceased American artists, princi- 2 4slly his contemporaries, will be on vfSw during the celebration. This eX- Htbft Will prOaDly open leH udSs' peloie SStfe Celebration, to continue until the Ss1yt of November, when the borrowed S6fctures must be returned to their sa0wners.
 Tn connection with this feature of the Elaboration, a special monograph of Trrirlbull containing complete cata- 2 s56Ift1e of his works, fully illustrated, is beiiig prepared to emphasize the posi- tfon of Yale university as the princi- anal custodian of Trumbull's historical < works.
 There will also be an historical eX- < hibition in the university library for
 which Important material is being col 1Scted under the supervision of A. Van
 Name and F. B. Dexter. These will be diAplayed under glass and will consist 3f books and manuscripts, bearing on Asffi1 history of Yale and of American }ducatfon in general.
 A collection of the early diplomas of the college is being made and 1t is hoped to secure the first one given by 4he college in 17O2, namely to Nathaniel 3fshauncey whose descendants will pre- ]; 3&rve this valuable document.