Connecticut western news., 1901-10-24
OLD ELI CELEBRATES.
BIcentenary Ceremonies of the Fa-
 nous University.

BIcentenary Ceremonies of the Fa-
 nous University.
 Yale began Sunday the celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the college. Religious services took place in accord with the devout and reverent traditions of the good old New England days when the little handful of clergymen gathered together and with prayerful supplied tions asked Divine blessing upon the institution which they had conceived and brought forth.
 The service began at 10:30 a. m. A chant by the choir was followed by the Lords prayer. President Hadley read lesson from the Scriptures, and after the ''Te Deum" the vast congregation sang Psalm lxv.. York tune. It was ap propriate because at the opening of the first college in New Haven in 171S the congregation united in singing the first four verses of this psalm.
 The Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell of Hartford, the senior fellow of the cor poration, preached the sermon, a mag nificent effort. The closing hymn was, T Love Thy Kingdom, Lord" written by the Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of Yale college from 179J to 1877. Then was sung the doxology. and the bene- diction was pronounced by the Rev. Timothy Dwight, president of the uni versiry from 1886 to 1899.
 Six thousand graduates and students marched in gay torchlight parade Mon- day night in celebration of the univer- sity's bicentennial. The enthusiasm of the returning graduates and of the whole student bedy was let loose. The march was through streets bordered with blue and brilliant with the ra- diance of many hued lanterns.
 The entire parade was spectacular in the extreme. the COS tuning being of an ordinal and picturesque character, ap- pealing at once to the eye and the im- agination. All the periods of the his- tory of Yale and the country in the last POO years were well symbolized.
 The welcome to the returning sons was voiced officially in Battell chapel by President Arthur Twining Hadley of the university, and responses to the greeting were made in behalf of the city, state and nation and of the uni versailles of Great Britain and conti- mental Europe.
 In an amphitheater bedecked in blue and illumined by long strings of orange hued lanterns and Greek fire flaming and smoking skyward from poles erect ed about the campus the sons of Yale saw Tuesday night an allegorical per. formance by the Dramatic association of the university and listened to the songs of the student chorus, drilled es pecially for this feature of the bicen. tennial songs.
 ''The Founding of the Collegiate School In 1701'' was it's first scene, pic. turing the house of the Rev. Mir. Rus. sel of Bradford, where ten clergymen gathered, each bringing the treasured volumes which he had promised for the establishment of the new college.
 Following this was a scene repre-. senting the removal of the school libra. ry from Saybrook to New Haven after the struggle in which Governor Sal. tonstall, a sheriff and citizens of New Haven played prominent parts.
 Other scenes depicted the quaint cer. emonies of initiation into the old fresh. man societies. the rites incident to the burial of Euclid" glimpses of life about the historic Yale fence by day and night. the interior of a students room, typical of things familiar to ev cry graduate. and the finale, showing the students in chanel