The Washington times., 1901-09-05
YALE'S BICENTENNIAI

| During the last month the Yale Ricen
tennial Committee has made rapid pro
gress with the plans for Yaie's comins
great celebration of October DOB Apart
from some minor details. and the ar
rangements for the lodging of guests. al
most all of the necessary preparation:
are now complete
u Both President Hadley and Prof. Johr
c. Schwab, who have borne the brunt Of
the work on the celebration plans. have
been at the improvised Office of the com
nittee. in the house formerly occupied BY
President Dwight, regularly Throughout
the summer. and this week the perfected
plans have been put on exhibition for th,
first time
| Yale's bicentennial viii be one of tbs
most remarkable university events to be
| held in this country. Everything is
| planned on large scale. and both the
| outdoor and indoor ceremonies will be
made as interesting as is possible.
The celebration will be opened on Mon
| day, October Il. with public exercises
and In the evening will take place the
undergraduate and graduate procession.
On Tuesday there will be further exer-
cises. and in the evening student dra-
matics on the campus. Wednesday will
be Commemoration Day, and the presen-
tatlon of degrees will be held In the Hy-
| perion Theatre at the close of the pro-
| cession.
| The scheme for the Illumination and
decora--on of the campuses has been de-
Tcfded upon 1t will be on a magnificent
scale. the general arrangement being sup
| piled by Tiffany of New York The main
color scheme will be green. blue, and
| orange, the general arrangements being
nj p1itt nf NS.u
| artists. who studied the effects of electric
lights produced at the Paris Exposition
Expense has not been spared in the pur-
chase of material. and Mr.. NJ. c. ID. Bor-
den. of Fall River. Mass. has agreed to
furnish the greens, which will be cut from
his own grounds in Rhode Island
| The central point In the scheme of day
decoration will be Phelps Gateway, on
| College Street. This building will be pro-
fuseiy decorated, and the archway under
1t Will BE- used as the main entrance from
the campus during the celebration On
College Street, from Chapel to Elm below
the campus buildings, there will be con-
tinl,ous line of Venetian masts, twelve
feet high, set close together, each float
Ing long Yale streamer at its top and
hung with sarlands of green.
Festoons of greenery will connect the
masts. and powered gateways will be
placed opposite Welch Hall entrance,
Phelps Gateway. and Battelf Chapel vesti-
bule. The colonnade will probably reach
around Chapel Street to Vanderbilt Hall
and around Elm Street to Durfee. A sim
liar colonnade will run the entire length
of College Street from Elm Street to
Grove Street thus connecting Sheffield
Scientific School with the college proper,
and including the new bicentennial build
ings.
The effect of the campus decoration is
expected to be striking. Each window of
each campus building will have a blue
Yale streamer hung from bracket at the
flags will be aligned and in uniform style.
There are 1.500 of these flags to be used
by the university alone. while private
houses all over the college section of the
city will also harg streamers.
On each building will be an emblazoned
a canvas copy of the bicentenniai seal, de-
signed expressly for the week. to consist
of the circular Yale seal in the middle,
two torches on either side, and the State
and city seals. The largest of these seals
will be on Phelps Gateway, directly over
the arch. The gymnasium will have
large seal, SURROUNDED with Yale blue
streamers and bunting, and with green
cry.
judging from the number of men who
have already reported to their class sec
retaries their expectation OF coming to
New Haven in October. the attendance
of graduates will be very large. Con-
servative estimates place the expected at
tendance at fully 1000, and it is probable
that over 1000 will be here on the most
important day. There will be added to
this great number of guests who are
not graduates, but who will come as
friends of Yale men and as sightseers.
The Committee on Entertainment is
making every effort to find rooms and
boarding places for the rhrong expected.
All the hotels have been bought up for
. thA nI.A rfr. -4vzsr Ct.1
general call has been sent out for private
housekeepers to help keep house and feed
the visitors. Over a dozen shore resorts,
from Milford to Branford, are to keep
open for the week, and the New Haven
Road is to have its steamers anchored
in the harbor as floating hotels.
The undergraduate part in the general
programme promises to be an entertain
ing feature of the week. In the torch
light procession of Monday night the
students will march by classes, and dress
of the student costumes, to the number
OF 2.ob. have already been received, and
are stored on the campus. Accurate por
trayals of the dress of various epochs
have been attempted, and in the three
coFnered hat of the Continentals. the pearl
waistcoat and stock of the men of 1872,
the buckskin trousers of the Rough
Riders, and the navy blue of the crew
of the Yale. faithful representations have
been borne out by the makers.
The route of march has now been def
nltely selected Inc procession Will move
down Chapel Street to Church Street, to
Elm Street, to York Street, to Crown
Street. down Crown Street to Orange
Street. to Trumbull Street to President
house on Whitney Avenue;
thence to Hillhouse Avenue. and down
that historic street to Grove Street. pass
ing the bicentennial buildings, to College
Street, and then down Wall Street to
Church Street. up Elm Street to College |
Street, where it will move to the campus
under Phelps Gateway and disband.
Within the last two weeks the musical |
part of the programme has been definitely
decided on. Profs. Horatio W. Parker |
and Samuel Sanford will have complete |
charge of the music. There will be three |
important concerts. beside minor musical |
affairs. Prof. Parker will personally con- |
duct the rendition of his '-Hora Novis- |
sima" by the Gounod Society of New Ha- |
ven, assisted by the New Haven Symphony |
supplemented by sixty nu- 4
sicians from New York and Boston. The |
soloists will be Ericsson Bushnell. Nine. |
Gertrude May Stein. Evan |
Williams and Gwyllym Miles. The Bos- |
ton Symphony Orchestra will give a |
special concert on Monday afternoon, as
he tribute to Yale of Colonel Higginson |
Of Boston. On Wednesday morning the
New Haven Symphony Orchestra will
give a concert in the Hyperion.