The San Francisco call., 1901-10-22
YALE WELCOMES
RETURNING SONS
Distinguished Visitors
Addressed by Presi-
dent Hadley.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Oct 21-YaIe
University extended formal welcome to-
day to her returning sons and to the hun
dreds of. distinguished guests from other
institutions of learning who are here to
attend the celebration of the bicentenniaI
The welcome was voiced officially in Bat
tel Chapel this afternoon by President
Arthur Twinfng Hadley of the university
and responses to the greeting We're given
in behalf of the city, State and nation
and of the universities of Great Britain
and Continental Europe. Delegates from
thirty foreign universities and societies
and from 125 American institutions were
represented in the audience. which filled
every part of the gray stone chapel.
The address by Thomas Thacher. NJ A.
of the New York bar was on yale in Its
Relation to Law"
The hymn composed by the Rev. DIR.
Leonard Bacon. a former fellow of Yale
and entitled 80 God, Beneath Thy Guild
ing Hand" was rendered with fine effect
by large chorus.
William H. Welch. professor of pathoi-
ogy in Johns Hopkins University, was the
second speaker at the exercises in the
chapel
A college song entitled Gather Ye
Smiles From the Ocean Isles,'' composed
by Francis M. Finch of the Yale class of
l849, and sung on. the occasion of the one
hundredth and hftieth anniversary of the
| college, Drecededa the address.
| Until o'clock in the afternoon formal
| exercises We're suspended. following the
! address of DIR. Welch, but at that hour
the chief general feature of the days
programme was entered upon, when Pres
ident Hadley made his address of well
| come.
In response congratulations to the uni
versity were extended by various speak
ers-for the graduates, ex-senator Hig-
| gins of Delaware, class of 1861; for the
city of New Haven. Mayor Johnson p
| Sturtey; for the State of Connecticut
| Governor G.. P. Mclean; for the nation
Senator o. II. Platt
Foreign and American universities were
represented in the responses as follows:
The universities of Great Britain James
| Williams, fellow of Lincoln College Oxford :.
the universities of Continental Europe. Federo-
| vich Martins of the University of st Peters
burg; universities of the South. Charles Wi
| liam Dabney. president of the University OF
! Rayney Harper, president of the TTniversitv ~
] Chicago; universities of the East Charles wi
liam Eliot. president Of Harvard University
Six thousand graduates and students of
yale marched in gay parade tonight in
| celebration of the university's bicenten-
nial. The march of the Sons of Eli was
through streets bordered with blue. bril-
| with electric lights. oe
Accompanying the. Yale students ond
graduates We're representatives of the
! Several sister institutions of IearninoS . .eS'
! trlbuted their quota of members fo a.
Slst IN the parade Harvard. Princeton
! trinity and wesleyan were represerto5 -
Starting from the campus the psrado
passed passed through the broad archway of the
upon which there was a splendid dIis1iaI, u,
OF inGandescent lamps, proceeded in lissS rs-
EIeM HeS,o Del9re of tne stand: There President
daaIey OF me university. Governor No
Lean and other men of prominenre 49, naco
Sdatloped Soa1 nf t6 From the reviewing stand the
tisI Streets tH and pfhee was through residen-
business section to the residence of p, PreIi slie
dent Hadley and back to the campns esi-
On the return TO the campus the thirt,,
IN concert and the parade was dissoINadn at1n