New-York tribune., 1901-10-20
FLOCKING BACK TO YALE.
GRADUATES AND GUESTS ASSEMBLING
FOR THE GREAT BICENTENNIAL.

NeW-Haven, Conn, Oct. 1s.-Connectcut's me-
tropohs to-day gave itself over TO the proud uni
Versity which tomorrow will begin the celebration
OF It's 2oth anniversary. AS if TO distinguish be-
tween the present day and those earlier days when
town and gown" were uniformly arrayed
against each other. the city government the raer-
chants and business and the residents have
seemed TO vie with one another in emphasizing the
pride Of the townspeople in the old institution The
streets everywhere flying the blue Of Yale dig
nihed with festoOns of evergreen and in the cen
tre OF the city scarcely building is to be seen
which does not hide itself behind yards of bunt-
I ing and the banners of the university.
Many distinguished guests have arrived and
every incoming train bears its quota of returning
graduates and other visitors. Every mail brings
10 the committees announcements Of the intended
arrival Of noted men. Among those who will at
tend the exercises as representative of American
and foreign institutions are the following in ad-
dition TO others previously mentioned Union Theo-
logical Seminary, the Rev. Professor William
Adams Brown: University of Toronto, Professor r.
Ramsay Wright: University of Sydney, s Henry
Barraclough, Lecturer on engineering; Baylor Uni
versity. Waco. Tex. Professor s. P. Brooks; Al
bright College, MyerstOwn Penn. c. A. Bowman,
president; University OF Kings College. Nova Scotia.
the Very Rev. DR.. Francis Partridge, dean Of
Fredericton; West Virginia University, Professor
Waitman Barbe; Massachusetts Institute Of Tech
noogy, Dwight Porter. professor of hydraulic engi-
neering: American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
DR.. James Bradley Thayer one of the Harvard
Dr.. GUstave Henry WaId. dean University of Wis
consin, George Carey Comstock, director OF Wash
burn Observatory; Drury College, DR.. Homer Tay-
lor Fuller president; American Historical Associa-
ton Dr.. Charles Francis Adams, president; cap
tain Alfred T. Mahan, vice-president, and Dr.
Simeon E. Baldwin. associate justice OF the Con-
neCLiCUt Supreme Court. The Royal University Of
Padua appoints Professor Edward 5. Dana, Of
Yale. it representative.
The celebration proper opens Tomorrow with ex-
erCises religious and musical. on Monday there
will come dedCatiCns OF memorials. addresses on
law and medicine and the pronouncement Of well
come by President Hadley. on Monday night the
spectacular procession Will take place. Tuesday
morning will be devoted 10 addresses, Tuesday af-
ternoon university football and the presentation
Of Professor ParkeT's Oratorlo, 'Hora NOVSSrna,' W
conducted by the author. and a concert by the BOs-
ton Symphony Orchestra. whose services have been
rendered Yale by Francis Higginson, OF Har-
ward Al o'clock Tuesday evening the college
campus will be Illuminated by eight thousand cleo
trIc lights. and the students viii give a dramatic
presentation. That days festivities VIII end with
the singing OF Yale songs, old and new, by gradu-
aCes and students three thousand voices, led by a
band Of huge proportions.
Wednesday. commemOration day will afford the
UustriOUs features Of the bcentenniaL President
Roosevelt Will be present 10 don the gown and hood
OF the DoCtoraIe OF Laws. The States Governor
viii be present. and honorary degrees 10 the num-
Of sixty viii be conferred on men Of letters and
science Of international reputation. a musical
programme, dediCatiOns Of new buildings and the
farewell reception by President and Mrs. Hadley
viii end the season n Yale's greatest celebration