The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-17
YALE'S BIG
FESTIVAL.
Will Celebrate Bl-CenienniaI
With Pcmp and Ceremony.
$50 COLLEGE PRESIDENTS.
They VIII Attend With an Army Of Living
Graduates Official Program
Of Exercises.

New Haven, Conn, Sept. l7-There will
be 1900 iags on the college building for
the Bicentennial celebration OF Yale Uni
versity. beginning on Oct 20 and lasting
four days. Ola South Middle. the last OF
is to have special decorations and at
night, Professor John c. schwab, secre-
tsry OF the executive committee OF the
Bicentennial celebration. says Old South
Middle will be a blaze OF light. The town
viii be covered with huge posters, calling
attention to the celebration. They will
be OF special design, all in blue, the Yale
color. The design comes from Grosvenor
Atterbury of New York, Yale man. who
has already contributed much time and
money for the success Of this Yale festi-
val
II has been announced that Yale women
are to have a part in the torchlieht pro-
cession which is to be one OF the features
OF the Bicentennial week. Those so ia
vored are the members OF the Yale Art
School and the musical department OF
the university. They will wear long
gowns of brown material and hoods that
will completely envelop their heads. To
one function OF the Festivities. however.
women. except the women students OF the
university. will not be admitted. That is
the student dramatic performance which
is TO take place on the old campus at
o'clock on Tuesday night, Oct. p. There
is so large a demand for seats from the
student body and from old grads that
there will be no room for women visitors.
This announcement is made by Professor
Schwab.
The ampitheatre in which the students
will act on the campus will be right In the
centre and will enclose one Of the elm
trees The electric lights which will illu-
inmate this ampitheatre will radiate
from this elm all over the enclosure. The
stage will be 50 by 30. and the ampitheatre
will accommodate about 5000 persons. The
parts that go TO make up the ampithea-
tire have been constructed and all that is
needed is to put them together.
Ii Is expected that from two-ffths 10
one-half OF the 1900 living graduates Of
the university will come TO the Bicen-
tennial. That means from 5000 TO 6o00
Yale graduates will be here. Hundreds Of
these will bring their families. making
the number Of Yale people in attendance
something like 10000.
There is an army OF Yale admirers who
will want TO witness the celebration, and
these will probably bring the total num-
Der OF visitors up TO about 1900. Pro-
fessor Schwab said today that l50' col
lege presidents had signified their inten-
ton OF attending the Bicentennial, this
nor including the delegations selected by
colleges throughout the world VINO have
already written that they will be on
hand TO help Yale celebrate. Among 9TH
ers Governor Mclean of Connecticut and
his staff will be the guests OF Yale, the
governor being ex-officio a member of
the Yale corporation.
This week the Bicentennial committee
has received from Paris 5000 orange-col-
ored paper lanterns. About 1000 more
will be needed and Secretary Schwab has
cabled 10 Paris for them. These lanterns
are two feet In diameter and about two
feet high. The committee would have
preferred blue-colored lanterns. but the
effect was not satisfactory. These orange
colored lights will be strung along College
street on both sides, from Osbore hall TO
Battell chapel Between the lights will
be garlands of green and festoons of blue
bunting. The front of Osborn hall and
Vanderbilt hall will be coored with or
ange-colored lights and garlands. An
immense flag will be placed over Phelps
gateway 10 designate that spot as the
main entrance 10 the campus. The plan
OF private home decorations will be much
similar to the general plan of decora ton
fnr tha hut oh
will have some striking feature in color
and effect.
The official program OF the exercises
up 10 date is as follows:
Sunday-i0:30 A. NJ. Sermon by the
Rev Joseph II. Twichell OF the Yale Cor
poration. In the Battell chapel: special
services In Centre church. United church
and Trinity church 300 p. NJ Address
by Professor George p. Fisher on Yale
IN It's Relation 10 Christian Theology and
Missions" I'm the Battell chapel. 500 p.
NJ Organ recital by Professors Samuel
> Sanford and Harry B. Jepson in the
Battell chapel
Monday.-lO:3o A. NJ. Address by Thos
Thacher on yale in It's Relation to
Law" IN the Battell chapel; Address by
Professor William ". welch on yale
IN It's Relation 10 Medicine" In the Bat
tell chapel 300 =. NJ Address of well
come 20 guests by President Hadley
with designated responses, In the Eat
tell chapel. son T. NJ Reception Of guests
and representatives of the alumni by
President Hadley. IN the art school 90o
y NJ Torchlight procession of su,dcnts
and graduates Assembly on the CAM
pus AZ s O'clock
Tuesday. lo:Sn A. NJ Address nv l'res-
idert Cyrus Northrop on yale I'm Ire
EJstion 90 the Development of tho
Cosntrv." Address BY Pre- sident Daniel
g Gilman on yale In lts Rotation 10
Science and Letters" 2aA y " Fon'baN
game with visiting team and with team
~ graduates. az the Yale field go p.
NJ Choral performance % Professor Ho-
ratio w Parker's "Hora Novissima bv
the Gounod society and The New Haven
SYMPHONY orchestra. IN tho Hyperion.
son = NJ Student dramatic performance
and singing. on the campus.
Wednesday y(Commemoration Day) --io:50
A VI Procession Of guests. graduates
and students. Assembly on the campus
81 ~: commemorative poem by Edmund
Clarence Stedman commemorative 1d-
dress by Mr. Justice Brewer. orchestral
and choral music comforting ~ honorary
degrees. IN the Hyperion. 2:2o p NJ Ccn-
cert nv 'he Boston SYMPHONY orchestra.