The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-10-26
YALE,s BIcENTENNIAL.
Celebration OF the 2OOth Anniversary
OF the Founding OF the Insti-
tuition begins.

New Haven, Conn, Oct. 21.-Yale
university began on Sunday the cele-
hration of the two hundredth anniver-
sary of the founding of Yale college.
The bicentennial of the great insti-
tuition of learning was ushered in
with ceremonies essentially religious.
The services were performed in ac-
cord with the devout and reverent
traditions of the good old New Eng
land days when the little handful of
clergymen gathered together and
with prayerful applications asked
Divine blessing upon the institution
which they had conceived and brought
forth. The old hymns were sung and
powerful sermons were uttered.
The city, proud in it's function as a
seat of learning, had bedecked itself
in Yale's colors and presented SPLEEN
did spectacle. Blue draperies were in
tertwincd with new cut evergreen,
and this general scheme of color was
broken only by the graceful folds of
the stars and stripes. The principal
streets had become archways of blue.
adorned at intervals with pictures of
President Roosevelt, who on Wednes-
day is to be Yale's guest and who on
that day will become son OF Yale
when the university's honorary de-
gree is conferred upon him.
From the simple school of 1901
Yale to-day finds herself great uni
versity, developed through the years
from one-building institution down
! hri n1y tf,
thence to a second campus, and now
to third, and stretching out in her
departmental buildings to territory as
great again.
Within Battle chapel, where the BIZ
centennial was inaugurated, the serv-
ices were participated in by an as
semblage as imposing as the exercises
were simple. On the rostrum sat
President Arthur Twining Hadley. At
his right was Rev. Joseph Twichell,
ID. d., of Hartford, the preacher Of
the bicentennial sermon. To his left
was Thomas G. Bennett, of the Yale
corporation. Next to DR.. Twichell sat
former President Timothy Dwight.
On one end was Hon. Henry Rowland,
of New York; on the other, Rev.
Charles Ray Palmer, both fellows of
the university corporation All wore
the gowns of their offices.
Below in the choir stalls sat
picked choir of students. The body
of the chapel was occupied in the CEN
ter aisle by distinguished delegates
and guests who wore academy gowns
with hoods of many colors. The seats
of the side aisles were filled with Yale
graduates, while the three galleries
were reserved for ladies.
The service began at 1880 a. m. A
chant by the choir was followed by
the Lords Prayer. President Hadley
read lesson from the Scriptures, and
after the lie Deum" the vast congre-
CATION sang Psalm 65. Rev. Joseph
Hopkins Twichell, of Hartford, the
senior fellow of the corporation,
preached the sermon. The closing
hymn was II Love Thy Kingdom,
Lord" written by Rev. Timothy
Dwight, ID. d., LII. D.. president Of
Yale college from 1895 to 1917. Then
was sung the Doxology and the BEN
ediction was pronounced by Rev. Tim
othy Dwight. president of the univer-
sity from 1886 to 1890.
Meanwhile special bicentennial serv-
ices were held in other churches of
the city and special sermons were
preached by Rev. Newman Smyth, ID.
d., in the Center church,; Rev. Joseph
Anderson, ID. D., of Waterbury, in the
United church, and Rev. Walton Wes-
ley Battershall, ID. d., of Albany, in
Trinity church. All of these churches
are located on the historic green adj
iacent to the college property, and
for many years the college commence
ment exercises were held in Center
church.
The hotels and boarding houses are
rapidly filing and new arrivals are
constant. The weather was superb
and all day the streets of the city
have been filed. In many cases long
journeys by team had been made
from surrounding towns by sight
seers. To-day will be devoted prac-
tically to ceremonies of official well
come.