The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-06
YALE BICENTENNIAL.
ELABORATE PROGRAMME PRE-
 PARED,
Decorations, IIluminntions, Literary and Musical Exercises.


 Final announcement of the completed plans for the Yale bicentennial will be made soon. The committee, of which President Hadley, Professor J. c, SchWab and Anson Phelps Stokes, jr., are at the head, has spent practically the entire summer at the committee Headquarters, in College street, and has now nearly finished the prepara- tory work. The task has been pro- digious, as the results to be announced will show.
 Of the noted men who will be present several will represent the United States government. President McKin- ley has promised to come, subject to his ability to leave Washington for New England at the time. Vice President Roosevelt expects to be here. Secretary Hay will be here, as will other mem- bers of the cabinet and prominent sen ators and congressman. Members of the foreign embassies are expected, though just who will come is not yet known. Representatives of all the great universities and colleges of the coun- try will be present as Yale's guests, and there will be special delegations from the universities of England and two or three other European coun- tries At the Memorial day exercises in the Hyperion theater degrees will be conferred on large number of distin- guished men in all walks of life.
 The celebration will begin on Sunday October 20, and will end on Wednesd- day evening, October 23. Each day there will be a continuous series of lit erary exercises, most of which will be held in Battel Chapel, and musical per- formances in the Hyperion. On Tues day afternoon the only athletic feature of the programme will come off at Yale field. On Monday evening there will be the torchlight procession of students and graduates, and on Tuesday even ing will be held the dramatic perform ances on the campus. The entire uni versity will be gayly decorated, and at night all of the buildings will be illum- mated. The city has voted to co-oper- ate with the university both in decor ation and illumination, and the city and campus will present a beautiful sight.
 The decoration has been one of the most difficult problems with which the committee has had to deal. With the aid of Louis c. Tiffany and Grosvenor Atterbury, of New York, an ambitious scheme of decoration has been evolved, and material is now being selected to carry out the plans. The general color scheme will be green and blue, the green furnished by evergreen and laurel and the blue by bunting and Yale flags and streamers. Mixed with this will be the vivid orange of Japanese lan- terms. The entire university will come In for part of the decoration. The cen ter chosen for the most lavish display will be the length of College street, which is open across the west side of the green. On College street, from Chapel street to Grove street will be .long line of Venetian masts each fif- tAen feet high, set close together and each bearing long Yale streamer. On each mast will be a green garland and a large lantern, and the festoons of green that will connect the masts will sbe hung with lanterns. At all the en- frances from College street the colon- ade will be broken by archways of