Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-10-21

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NEW HAVEN. Conn. October 90
Vale University began to-day the eel
earation of the two hundredth ami
,srsary of the founding of Yale Col
Iage. The bi-centennial of the great
nstitution of learning was ushered in
With ceremonies essentially religious.
The services were performed in ac-
cord with the devout and reverent ira
lItions of the good old New Haven
DAYS. when the little handful of clergy
men gathered together and with pray
erful applications asked divine bless
ny upon the institution which they
had conceived and brought forth. The
same old hymns were sung and pow
erful sermons were uttered.
The city. proud in its function as
seat of learning, had bedecked itself
in Yale's colors and presented splen-
did spectacle. Blue draperies were in
tertwined with new cut evergreen and
this general scheme of color was bro
Ken only by the graceful folds of the
stars and stripes.
The principal streets had become
archways of blue. adorned at intervals
with pictures of President Roosevelt,
who on Wednesday is to be Yale's
guest and who on that day will become
son of Yale. when the Universitys
honorary degree is conferred upon
him.
From the simple school of 1901 Yale
to-day found herself a great Universe
~, developed through the years from
one building institution down
through her brick row. to a campus,
hence to second campus. and now to
third and stretching out in her de-
partmental buildings to territory as
great again.
Within battle chapel where the BIZ
centennial was inaugurated the SER
vices were participated in by an as
semblage as imposing as the exercises
we're simple. On the rostrum sat
President Arthur living Hadley. At
his right was Rev. Joseph Twichell, ID.
D., of Hartford, the preacher of the BIZ
Thomas G. Bennett, Of the Yale cor
pnration. Next to DR.. Twichell sat
former President Timothy Dwight. On
one end was Hon. Henry Rowland, OF
New York; on the other Rev. Charles
Ray Palmer, both fellows of the Uni
yersity corporation. All wore the
Gowns of their offices. Below in the
choir seats sat picked choir of stu
dents. The body of the chapel was oc-
cupiea in the center aisle by distin-
guished delegates and guests who wore
academic gowns with hoods of many
coors.
Mr.. Twichel,'s topic was. Academic
Memories" He spoke OF Yale College IS
owing its origin to the sense of the
paramountence of spiritual factor of life
cunjoined with the conviction of the
virtue of liberal learning to conserve
and replenish it. He said:
"The founders were of comparatively
humble degree in their time. but they
We're distinctly representatives OF that
type and order of men appearing in all
times, who believing the immaterlal
and eternal more than the temporal
have achieved the principal part OF all
hest worth doing and daring in this
world. The views and ideas with which
they were penetrated have held their
ground in this institution from its
Planting"
He closed by invoking new dedica-
ton of the university to tnat Christian
service to which at the beginning it was
dedicated.
The seats of the side aisles were fill
od with Yale graduates while the three
Galleries were reserved for ladies.
The service began at 1880 a. m. A
chant by the choir was followed by the
Lords prayer. President Hadley read
lesson from the Scriptures and after
The tie Deum" the vast congregation
sang Psalm LXv
Rev. Joseph Hopkins Twichell. OF
Hartford, the senior fellow of the cor
poration, preached the sermon.
scholarship and the study of Col.
as the subject of DR.. Andersons SER
mon in the United Church. He dis
cussed the early days of the college,
yelling upon the aims of the founders
and speaking of the advance made in
200 years in educational methods NOR
ais and manners.
But what he asked shall we say
OF our progress in things divine
The two things that dominate our
University life to-day are athletics and
9clentifc research and the university
curse, so far as it is pursued with re-
Terence to the life that follows. is
shaped for the security Of worldly sue
cess which means the amassing OF
wealth. What we find to be true at