The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-21

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Oct. 2O.-Yale
university began today the celebration 81
the 2l0th anniversary of the founding of
Yale college. The bicentennial of the
great institution of learning was ushered
in with ceremonies essentially religious.
The services were performed in accord
witt the deveut and reverent traditions
of the good old New England days when
the little handful of clergymen gathered
together and with prayerful supplications
asked Divine blessing upon the institution
which they had conceived and fought for.
The old hymns were sung and powerful
sermons were uttered.
The city, proud in its function as a seat
of learning, had bedecked itself in Yale's
colors and presented a splendid spectacle
Blue draperies were intertwined with new
cut evergreen, and this general scheme OF
color was broken only by the graceful
folds of the Stars and Stripes.
The principal streets had become arch
ways 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 a son of Yale
when the university's honorary degree is
conferred upon him. From the simple
school of 1701 Yale today found herself a
great university, developed through the
years from a one-building institution,
down through her brick row. to a cam
pus, thence to a second campus and now
TO a third, and stretching out in her de-
partmental buildings to territory as great
again.
Within Battle chapel, where the bicen-
tennial was inaugurated, the services
were participated in by an assemblage as
imposing as the exercises were simple.
On the ostrum sat President Arthur
Twining tHNdley. At his right was Rev.
Joseph " Nell, D. D., of Hartford, the
preacher of the bieentennial sermon. To
his left was Thomas G. Bennett, of the
Yale corporation. Next to DR. Twichell
sat former President Timothy Dwight
On one end was Hon. Henry Howland,
OF New York; on the other, Rev. Charles
Ray Palmer, both fellows of the univers-
ity corporation Both wore gowns of their
order. Below in the chairs were the stu
dents. The body of the church was oc-
cIpied in the central aisle by distin-
guished guests and ladies, who wore
gowns of many colors The rest of the
ground seats were filled with Yale grad
yates, while the two galleries were re-
served for ladies.
The service began at 10:3O a. M A
chant by the choir was followed by the
Lords Prayer. President HadIey read a
lesson from the scriptures, and after the
Te Deum the vast congregation sang
Psalm LXV. Rev. Joseph Hopkins
Twichell, of Hartford, the senior fellow
: o. the corporation, preached the sermon
Ar. Twiche44 S topic was Academic
Memories" He spoke of Yale college as
owing its origin to the sense of the para
mount Importance of the spiritual factor
OF life conjoined 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
.tiInes, who, believing the !, immaterial
and the eternal more than the temporal,
have achieved the principal part of all
best worth doing and daring in this world.
The views and ideas with which they
We're permeated have held their ground
in this Institution from it's planting
He closed by invoking a new dedication
of the university to that Christian science
To which in the beginning it was dedi-
Gated.
The closing hymn was "T Love Thy
Kingdom, Lord written by Rev Tim
othy Dwight. d. D., LID, president of
Yale college from 1885 to 1917 Then was
sung the >DoXology and the benedictior
was pronounced by Rev. Timothy Dwight
president of the university from 1856 to
1889.
OTHER SPECIAL SERVICES.
Meanwhile special bicentennial services
We're held in other churches of the city.
and special sermons were preached by
Rev Newman Smyth, D. D., in the Cen.
ter church; Rev. Joseph Anderson, D. D.
of Waterbury, in the United church, and
Rev. Walter Wesley Battershan, d. D.,
of Albany, in Trinity church All of
these churches are located on the historic
green adjacent to the college property
and for many years the college COM
mencement exercises were held in Center
church
Scholarships and the Study of Cod
was the subject of DR.. Anderson s. sermon
In the United church. He discussed the
early days of the college, dwelling upor
the aims of the founders and speaking o
the advance made in 200 years in educa
tional methods, morals and manners
But what he asked, 'shall we say O
our progress in things Divine?'
THE two things which dominate om
university life today are athletics and
scientific research, and the university
course, so far as I have pursued with
reference to the life that follows, i:
shaped for the securing of worldly sue
cess, which means the amassing OF
wealth What we find to be true at Yal
we find to be true everywhere else''
DR.. Anderson made an earnest ples
for the study of theology, not alone il
the Divinity school and pulpits, but il
the thinking of the people
"A university he said Should sent
forth not men of business alone to pro
duce wealth, nor strong men alone, bu
men who are in fellowship with the un
seen world and can bring men to look i
in the face, to do battle with mad com
me-cialism.'
The Rev. Walton Battershall D. D., il
the course of his address on THE Oh
Faith and New College," said:
tTale faces troubles and hardship
which it thought had been battered dow
with old savageries dangers from nei
philosophers. who tell it that it needs be
lief not in Cod nor soul, nor immortal
ity. but only the spur of seltishness, tn
restraints of the police and prudence an
TIE hope of improving itself in the huma
scramble. The doctrine should gain
larGe percentage of converts. like thos
who burrow and plot in subterranea
Europe, like some of our recent importa
ticps, like the one who month ag
struck down the president and sent
wave of horror around the world Civil
ization would collapse like a house G
cards. A man may think that he can ful
fill his life without the church of Chris
and the tremendous forces which it prog
agates in the conscience and conduct q
the world. There will be crises in hi
history when he discovers his mistak,
and when he looks outside his curtaine