New-York tribune., 1901-06-16
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New-Haven. Conn, June 15.-Yale's great BIZ
centennial celebration for next October is now
thoroughly planned. and the first general idea OF
what the programme is to be has been given out
by the authorities. The celebration will begin
on Sunday, October 20. and end on "Wednesday
evening, october 23. Sunday morning the Rev
Joe" Twichen, Of the Yale Corporation will de-
liver the bicentennial sermon in Batten Chapel
and in the afternoon there will be ser
vices commemorative Of the week in the
United and Center churches. where Yale's COM
mencements were formerly held. In the evening
Professor Jepson, the We'll known university or
ganist wlll give an organ recital in the chapel
On Monday morning there viii be addresses by
Thomas Thacher, Of New-York and by Profess
sor William :. Welch, of Johns Hopkins on ''The
Relation OF Yale to Law and Medicine" and in
the afternoon President Arthur T. Hadley Will
deliver the address Of welcome TO the guests In
Battell Chapel. In the evening there will be a
torchlight procession OF undergraduates and
graduates in costume On Tuesday morning
there viii he addresses by President Cyrus
Northrup Of the University OF Minnesota, and
ny President Daniel C Gilman Of Johns Hopkins
IN Battel Chapel, on The Relation of Yale to
the Development of the Country and TO Science
and Letters" In the afternoon there VIII be
football matches between the Yale varsity and
q team from a small college. and between the
varsity and a team of graduate players. Pro-
fessor II. ". Parker's "Hora Novissima" VIII
also be sung by the Gounod Society Of New
Haven assisted by the Boston Symphony
Orchestra in the Hyperion. In the evening
there viii be campus dramatics and singing by
the undergraduates in a vast amphitheatre TO be
erected where old North and the Treasury now
-,
rnemoration day. In the morning there viii be a
procession Of guests and graduates TO the Hy
rerfon where addresses will he made and hon
orarv degrees conferred. Justice David Brewer
of the United States Supreme Court, Will deliver
the conmemoration address, and Edmund Clar-
ence Stedman viii read the poem for the occa-
sion In the afternoon the Boston Symphony
Orchestra viii give concert in the Hyperion.
and in the evening President and Mrs. Hadley
will give a farewell reception 10 the guests and
graduates in the new Grove-st. hall, which will
be formally opened at the occasion.
OF all the public parts of the programme the
student celebration will be most striking and
picturesque. Great plans are now making
toward this end. The torchlight procession will
be the spectacular feature of the week, and no
pains are being spared TO make il great
pess. Some four thousand undergraduates and
graduates win be in line and nearly all OF them
will be in costume. 1t is proposed TO have the
undergraduates dressed TO represent various
stages in the history OF Yale and the country.
The procession VIII be led by the incoming SEN
aor academic class. three hundred strong
dressed as Indians. representing the state OF the
country around New-Haven before Yale was
settled. Following them viii come the incoming
senior Sheffield Scientific School class dressed
as old Colonial settlers. men and women. in
peaked hats and queer costumes. each man with
his cross bow or long gun over his shoulder,
and the usual divine leading the colony. Fol
lowing them viii come regiment Of Revolu-
tionary soldiers, dressed We're Connecticut's
soldiers in l775 and led by made up
famous Revolutionary leaders. A fife and drum
corps on Colonial models viii lead the regiment.
Next viii come a body Of men dressed TO repre-
sent the students az Yale about the year 1912.
when beaver hats and long coats We're the style,
and when the students Wore boards and flowing