The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-21
Two Hundredth Anniversary Of
the Founding of Yale College
Begun With Exercises FittingIy
Simple and Impressive
NEW HAVEN BEDECKED
WITH BLUE DRAPERIES
City Fast Filling With Distin-
guishedVisitors and Yale Grad
uates-PreSdent Roosevelt to
Receive an Honorary Degree
Wednesday

New Haven. Oct 2O.-Yale Universe
200th anniversary Of the founding Of
Yale College. The exercises were SIM
pie and imposing. 1t was fitting that
the bi-centennial Of the great institu-
ton Of learning should be ushered in
with ceremonies and sentiments of re-
ligion. This was done with program
etrikingly simple at the chapel of the
sturdy. Puritan days of the old college
school, from whence sprung the Yale
Of today.
The services were performed in ac-
cordance with the good old New Eng
land days when the little handful OF
clergymen gathered together and with
prayerful supplications asked OlVine
blessing upon the institution Whlcn
they had conceived and prougnI loI ~
And so. today, were gathered in the
citv's churches unwonted congrega-
lions while thanksgivings and prayers
were lifted for Yale, its past ana lts
future. The grand old hymns were
sung and all united in them. POWER
ful sermons were uttered; in formal ad-
dress, the university's relatiGI 10
Christian theology and missions were
presented and With great organ, tne
charm Of music afforded the oay cli-
max. 1T.
And vet, with all the studied simple
ity more or less grandeur was ineVlta-
HE today. as it was impossible Two
centuries ago. The city, proud IN us
function as a seat of learning, was pc
decked with Yale colors. Blue draper
les were intertwined with new cut eV-
ergreen, and this general scheme OF
color was broken only by the graee1ul
folds If the nations stars and Stripes.
The principal streets had become
archways Of blue adorned at Intervals
with pictures of President RooseEeit
who. on Wednesday, is to be Yaie
guest and who, on that day, VIII pc
come a son of Yale when the UNIVERSE
tvs honorary degree is conferred up
on him. -,
Each of Yale's buildings bore the uni
yersity seal of great proportions, done
in blue and gold. All were festooned
with blue and evergreen, while colored
lanterns of varied hues added to a real
enchantment.
From the simple school Of 17O1 Yale
today found herself a great university,
developed through the years from a
one building institution, down through
her "brick row. to O. campus, thence
a
a third, and even stretching out IN ner
departmental buildings to territory as
great again.
Returning graduates Of the older
classes were amazed at the transfer
nation All was new and impressive
Iy great. Within Battell chapel where
the bicentennial was inaugurated the
services were participated in by an as
semblage as imposing as the exercises
were simple.
On the rostrum sat President Arthur
Il. Hadley. At his right was Rev, Jo-
seph Twichell, d. 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 limo
thy Dwight On one end Hon. Henry
Rowland of New York, on the other
Rev. Charles Ray Palmer, both fell
lows 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 centre aisle by distinguished del
egates and guests, an assemblage the
like of which has probably never be-
fore gathered in the country. These
men of letters and science wore acad-
en1ic 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 1870 a. m. A
chant by the choir was followed by
the Lords prayer. President Hadley
read a lesson from the scriptures and
after the ''Te Deum" the vast congre-
cation sang psalm LXV, York tune.
It was appropriate because at the open
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