The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-22
Graduates and Students OF Yale
Take Part in the Celebration OF
the University's Bi=Centennial=
Whole City of New Haven Joins
in the Festivities

NAL 1t was the popular manifestati
marked the observance of this two
though previous demonstrations of tn
and dignified character.
Tonight the enthusiasm of the re
student body was fairly let loose and
or forgetting the old antagonism of "
the celebration. The march Of the so
with blue and brilliant with the radia
From the university campus, past
all through the residential streets, to
procession, there was never ending
thousands of electric lights. Accompa
and acting as an escort, were represen
of the state, while several of Yales
uted their quota of members of the st
parade. Harvard, Princeton, Trinity
by about rs students, whose costumes
of their respective institutions.
The route of the procession was
from the campus where the light of
building and brilliant electric lights C
parade passed through the broad arch
the green, upon which there was a sp
lights, arranged in symmetrical figure
in front of the City Hall. There Presid
Mclean, Mayor Studley of New Hav
stationed on the reviewing stand.
The parade passed through the re
part of the city thence through the W
the residence of President Hadley and
The entire parade was spectacular
of an original and picturesque charac
imagination. All the periods of the h
last 200 years were well symbolized,
seniors who headed the academic par
gowns of blue worn by the graduates.
Each department of the university
tunes. The art school students appear
Middle Ages, the divinity students in
pupils in archers' uniforms. The SC
versity were an interesting sight car
inscription Japan for Yale and Yale
floats and transparencies, bearing leg
New Haven, Ct, Oct. 21.-Today Yale
University, dressed in festival attire
extended formal welcome to her return
ing sons and to the hundreds of dis
tinguished guests from other institu-
tons Of learning in this country and
across the seas, who are here to attend
the celebration of her bi-centennial.
The welcome was voiced officially in
Battell Chapel this afternoon by Presi-
dent Arthur Twining Hadley Of the
university, and responses to the greet
ing were given in behalf of the city
state and nation and of the universities
of Great Britain and continental Eu-
rope. Delegates from 80 foreign uni
versities and societies and from 12t
American institutions were represented
in the audience, which filled every part
of the gray stone chapel.
Nearly all the delegates were gowneG
in the academic costumes distinctive Of
their degree or of their university
Scarlet-trimmed gowns and hoods Of
doctors of divinity were mingled with
the purple of the learned representa-
tives of the law, the blue of the doctors
of philosophy, the green Of the medica
departments, the white of the master
of arts and letters, the orange OF
science and the brown of fine arts
Everywhere was a variety of color
which, combined with the universal
blue of the Yale decorations, gave g
picturesque air Of festivity to the dig.
nified ceremonial.
Aside from the exercises of welcome
the days program included addresse:
of the advanced past two centuries il
various departments of learning. Jus
as yesterday was appropriated to con
sideration of the religious side of lif,
in the old university and the advance
in theological seminary, so today thu
work Of the institution in the depart
ments of law and medicine was pre-
scented.
AAC III 81 VI AllGoC elodl GS2Co was u
Thomas Thacker, NJ. A., of the New
York bar, who discussed yale in tt
Relation to Law" Mr.. Thacker spok,
in Battell Chapel at 80 o'clock, afte
he had been presented formally to tn,
delegates by Simeon e. Baldwin LII. D.
associate justice of the Connection
court and professor Of constitutions
laws at Yale. The hymn composed by
Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., LII. D., {
former fellow of Yale, and entitled &c
God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand" was
rendered with fine effect by a large
chorus.
William H. Welch, M. D., LII. D.
professor of pathology in Johns Hop
kins University, was the second speak
er at the forenoon exercises in The
chapel. A college song entitled Cath
er Ye Smiles from the Ocean Isles,
composed by Francis M Finch, LII. D.
of the Yale class Of 1849, and sung OF
the occasion of the 150th anniversary
of the college, preceded the address
Dr. Welch was introduced by Prof
R. H. Chittenden, Phi. D., director o.
the Sheffield Scientific School "Yalt
in Its Relation to Medicine" was the
subject of his paper which was a care
full and thoughtful history of the worl
of the University in the medical de.
partment and a summing up of the
progress Of the science through the
study and research of Yale graduates
who have won distinction in this patti
of learning.
One of the features of the early
morning was the dedication of the Me-
mortal gateway erected by the class of
1885, in memory of Ward Cheney and
Gerard Merrick Ives, two members of
that class who gave their lives for
their country in the Spanish-American
war. The gateway was recently erect
ed between WEIGH and Osborne Halls
as an entrance to the campus.
At the dedicatory ceremony, Presi-
dent Hadley said: "Of all the memoir
ials which are offered 10 a university
by the gratitude of her sons, there are
none which serve so closely and fully
the purposes. of her life as these monu-
ments which commemorate her dead
heroes. The most important part of
the teaching of place like Yale is
found in her lessons of public spirit and
devotion to high ideals. These things
can in some measure be learned from
books of poetry and history They can
in some measure be learned from daily
life of the college and the ideals which
it ineulcates."
Until o'clock in the afternoon, for
NAL exercises were suspended following
the address of DR.. WEIGH in Battell
Chapel, but at that hour the chief gen.
eral feature of the days program was
began his address of welcome.
In response to the address formal ut
terances of congratulation to the uni
versity were extended by various
speakers. For the graduates, Hon.
Anthony Higgins, LII. D., of Whining
ton, Del, class of 1861, delivered the
Maxrnr TohT9 D Cf1a n
Yale graduate, spoke for the city Of
New Haven; Governor George P Nc
Lean for the state of Connecticut and
Hon. o. II. Plat. United States Senator.