The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-22
HONOR TO OLD ELI.
YALE UNIVERSITY CELEBRATES
IT'S TWO HUNDREDTH
ANNIVERSARY
ADDRESS OF MR.. HADIEY
A Feature of the First Day-Mem-
OriaI Gateway Dedicated to
Dead In Spanish Amer
lean War.


NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct M-YaIe
university extended formal welcome to-
| day to her returning sons and to the
hundreds of distinguished guests from
| other institutions of learning in this
country and across the seas who are here
| to attend the celebration of her bicen-
| tennial. The welcome was voiced official
| ly in Battell chapel this afternoon by
| President Arthur Twining Hadley, of the
university, and responses to the greeting
were given in behalf Of the city, state and
nation, and of the universities of Great
| Britain and continental Europe. Dele
| gates from thirty foreign universities and
| societies and from twenty-five American
institutions were represented in the audi
ence which filled every part of the gray
/ stone chapel. Nearly all the delegates
were gowned in the academic costumes
distinctive of their degree or of their uni
versity. Scarlet trimmed gowns and
/ hoods of doctors of divinity were mingled
/ with the purple of the learned lFepre-
| sentatives of the law the blue of the
doctors of philosophy, the green of the
medical departments, the white of the
masters of arts and letters, the orange
! of science, and the brown of fine arts.
! Everything was a variety of color which,
/ combined with the universal blue Of the
Yale decorations, gave a picturesque air
| or festivity to the dignified ceremonial.
| Aside from the exercises of welcome
! the days programme included addresses
| descriptive of the advance of the past
| two centuries in various departments Of
! learning. The first of these addresses
was by Thomas Thatcher, M. A. of the
! New York bar, who discussed yale IN
/ its Relation to Law" Mr.. Fhacher spoke
/ in Battell chapel at 1890, after he had
| been presented formally to the delegates
| by the Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, IL. D.,
| associate justice of the Connecticut su-
! preme court and professor of constitu-
tional law at Yale The hymn composed
| by the Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon, a former
fellow of Yale, and entitled 80, God,
| Beneath Thy Guiding Hand was rem
| dered with fine effect by large chorus.
! William M. Welch M D., LII. D., pro-
fessor of pathology in Johns Hopkins uni
versity, was the second speaker at the
| forenoon exercises in the chapel The
choir sang a song entitled Gather Ye
Smiles From the Ocean Isles" composed
| by Francis M. Finch, LIZ D., of the Yale
class of 1S49 and sung on the occasion
| of the 150th anniversary of the college,
| proceeding the address.
| DR.. Welch was introduced by Prof
Chittenden, director of the >Schoenfeld
scientific school,
"Yales Relation to Medicine" was the
subject of his paper, which was care
full and thoughtful history of the work
OF the university in the medical depart
ment and a summing up of the science
through the study and research of Yale
graduates, who have won distinction in
| this path of learning.
Until 8 o'clock in the afternoon formal
exercises were suspended following the
address of Dr. WEIGH in BatteH chapel,
| but at that hour the chief general feature
| of the days programme was entered
upon, when President Hadley began his
address of welcome.
In response, congratulations to the uni
versity were extended by various speak
| ers, viz; For the graduates, ex-senator
Higgins, of Delaware, class of 1861; for
the city of New Haven, Mayor John P
5Studley; for the state of Connecticut,
| Gov. George P. Mclean, and for the ma
tion Senator o. H. PIatt. Foreign and
American universities were represented
in the responses, as follows: The univer-
sites of Great Britain, James Williams
D. c. L., fellow of Lincoln college, Ok
ford; the universities of continental Eu-
rope, Fedor Fetorovic Martens, LII. D.,
University of st. Petersburg; universities
of the South, Charles William Dabney,
Phi. D., LII. D., president of the Univer-
sity of Tennessee; universities of the
West, DR.. w. Rayner Harper, president
of the University of Chicago; universi-
ties of the East, Charles William Eliot
Ii. D., president of Harvard university.
The exercises closed with the reading
of the names of universities, colleges and
learned societies sending delegates.
At o'clock this afternoon President
Harper received the distinguished guests
of the university and representatives. of
the alumni in the school of the fine arts
building.
One of the features of the early morning
was the dedication of the memorial gate
| 1,.4,, 49,. OF
DRY of Ward Cheney and Gerard Mer-
rick Ives, two members of that class,
who gave their lives for their country in
the SpaniSh-American war. President
Hadley delivered an appropriate address.
The gateway was recently erected by
WEIGH and Osborne halls as an entrance
to the campus.
Six thousand graduates and students
of Yale marched in gay parade tonight
in celebration of the universty's bicen-
tennial 1t was the popular manifesto
ton of the eXuberant spirit which has
marked the observance of this festival
from the beginning.
The enthusiasm of. the visiting gradu-
ates and of the whole student body was
fairly let loose and the city of New HaV-
en- took large part in the celebration.
The march of the sons of Eli was
through streets bordered with blue, bril-
liant with meny-hued lanterns and bright
with electric light.
Accompanying the Yale students and
graduates were representatives of the
militia and naval forces of the state
while several of Yales sister Institutions
of learning contributed their quota Of
members of the student body to assist
III the academic parade. Harvard
Princeton, Trinity and Wesleyan We're
represented and their costumes We're
emblematic of their respective institu-
lions.
Starting from the campus the parade
passed through the broad archway of the
Phelps gate, and encircling the green,
upon which there was a special display
of 1900 incandescent lamps, proceeded in
review before the stand There President
Hadley, of the university; Gov. Mclean
and other men of prominence, were sta
toned. From the reviewing stand the
route of the parade was through resi-
Dental streets and thence through part
of the business section to the residence
of President Hadley and back to the
campus.
The entire parade was spectacular in
the extreme All the periods of the his
tory of Yale and the country in the last
200 years were we'll symboIized, from the
Pequot Indian garb of the seniors to the
caps and gowns of blue worn by the
graduates. Each department of the uni
yersity, too, was represented by distinct
costumes The art school students APP
peared in the tights and doubets of the
middle ages, the divinity students in
gowns of red and the Forest school
pupils in archers' uniforms. The score
of Japanese students in the university
were an interesting feature of the pro-
cession carrying a float on which an
peared the inscription Japan for Yale |