The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1901-10-25
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
AMID THE GLORIES OF YALE.

REV o. w. BARKER GIVES THE BEE
READERS A SMALL GLIMPSE INTO
YALE's GREAT CELEBRATION
"wELL, GEORGE, WHAT DO YOU
THINK OF IT?"-THE GOOD THAT IT
WILL DO.-wHY THE ENTHUSIASM
DID NOT ROLL TO A GREAT HEIGHT
FOR ROOsEvELT.-CAP AND GOWN
AND DIGNITY acknowledgements FOR
A MAN WHO WAS BORN IN SLAVERY.
I came back to NewtOWn, last even
ing, rather the worse for wear, after
having shouted and sung for three days
the honors and glories of old Yale, and
having tramped many weary foot
with the multitudes of her loyal sons.
This morning the editor, who is ever
spying around for loose items to ill
up the capacious NAV of his BEE, asks
me to whisk in at the last moment, as
THE BEE force aresrushing in the last
columns of the issue, some impressions
of the mighty spectacle. Let's see, II
I can get that jingle of "Boula, boula"
out of my head for a while, I'll see if,
amid the confusion, L have not forgot
ten every idea ever owned.
Tuesday night, during one of the
tableaux vivants in the enclosure on
the Yale campus, when the 10000 peo-
pie packed in there had stopped singing
"Here's to good old Yale" long enough
to look at the scene on the stage,
George Washington came in to inspect
a company of Yale men that were be-
ing drilled to fight King George. Dis
tinctly and yet not loudly the officer
asked: "Well, George, what do you
think of it?" l guess George thought
it was pretty big thing; for he soon
disappeared, l suppose to lie down
again and take another nap. My i'm
preston, Mr. Editor, is, first of all, that
it was a very big thing from start to
finish, and that it will do Yale a great
deal of good. You cannot get some
1000 alumni back again to revisit the
scenes of their college days and see
what marvellous changes for the better
have taken place without lot of mon
ey in the future coming to. enrich the
Golfers of the alma mater. The alum
nj did come back, mighty throng. 1t
was touching to see the old men. with
the SHOWS of many winters piling in
drifts upon their broWs, greet each
other and almost fall into outstretched
arms with fond embrace. | saw two
old fellows standing in front OF an old
news stand on Chapel street, (there is
where bought the paper that told me
my man was not elected in that hot
of 1927. If there was one
place in all New Haven where | should
say students did not at any time in the
history of the college room, it was in
or over this old store. "Say, Charlie,'
said one to the other, "that doesn't |
look much like the place where we
hung out, does it?" They looked a
while in silence and passed on.
"Did you geo view of the Presi-
dent?" That is the question everybody |
asks you when you come back. | met |
a young lady who didn't. She had
been standing on the curb on Hill
house avenue for three hours, for she
knew he was going to Prof FarnamS
where he was to be entertained. Soon
I band came along with a deal of fuss
md feathers, and, of course, the Presi
lent was soon to follow. Off the
crowd scampered in: the direction of
jhe band. A fter the band had decoyed
Them a block or two away, the Presi-
lent calmly passed the corner in car
'iage, surrounded only by a few police
nen. "Teddy' smiled serenely when
le saw what had happened for even in