The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-21
YALE'S WELCOME.
Old Eli Gathers Scattered Sons
to Its Bosom.
Delegates Present From All
Over the World.
BEDECKED IN BLUE.
City of New Haven Is Mass of
Color
In Honor of the Bicenten-
NAL Celebration.
ROOSEVELT'S PICTURE
Appears Among the Decorations
All Over the Town
In Anticipation of the Visit of
the President.

New Haven, Conn, Oct 21-Ya1e ex-
tended formal welcome today to her
returning sons and to the hundreds OF
distinguished guests from other insti
tutions of learning in this country and
| across the seas, who are here to attend
the celebration of her bicentennial. The
welcome was voiced officially in Bat
tell chapel this afternoon by President
Arthur Twining Hadley, of the univer-
sity, and responses to the greeting were
given in behalf of the city, state and
nation and of the universities of Great
Britain and continental Europe. Dele
gates from thirty foreign universities
and societies and from 125 American
institutions were represented in the
audience, which filed every part of the
gray stone chapel.
Nearly all the delegates We're gowned
in the academic costumes distinctive of
their degree or of their university.
Scarlet trimmed gowns and hoods of
doctors of divinity were mingled with
the purple of the learned representa-
tives of the law, the blue of the doctors
of philosophy, the green of the medical
department, the white of the masters
of arts and letters, the orange of sci
ence and the brown of fine arts Every
where was a variety of color, which
combined with the universal blue of
the Yale decorations gave a picturesque
air of festivity to the dignified cere-
monial.
Aside from the exercises of welcome
the days progra mnle included addresses
descriptive of the advance of the past
two centuries in various departments of
learning. The first of these addresses
was by Thomas Thacher, NJ. A, of the
New York bar, who discussed yale in
it's Relation to Law" Mr.. Thacher
spoke in Battell chapel at 1920, after
he had been presented formally to the
delegates by Simeon E. Baldwin, LII.
D., associate justice of the Connecticut
supreme court and professor of con-
stitutional law at Yale. The hymn
composed by the Rev. DR.. Leonard
Bacon, a former fellow of Yale, en-
titled 30 God, Beneath Thy Guiding
Hand" was rendered with fine effect
by large chorus
RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES.
New Haven, Conn, Oct. 21-Yale uni.
verSity began Sunday the celebration of
the two hundredth anniversary of the
founding of Yale college. The bicenten-
nial of the great institution of learning
was ushered in with ceremonies essen
TALLY religious.
The services were performed in ac-
cordance with the devout and reverent
traditions Of the good old New England
days when the little handful of clergy
men gathered together and, with prayer
full supplications, asked Divine blessing
upon the institution which they had con-
CelVeQ ana DrOuSnI IOrIn. Inc Ola hymns
were sung and powerful sermons were
uttered.
The city. proud in it's function as a
seat of learning, had bedecked itself in
Yale's colors and presented a splendid
spectacle. Blue draperies were inter-
twined 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, that day, will become a son of
Yale, when the universitys honorary
degree is conferred upon him.
From the simple school of 1701 Yale
found herself a great university, de-
veloped through the years from a one
building institution down through her
"brick row. to a campus, thence to a
second campus, and now to third, and
stretching out in her departmental
buildings to territory is great again.
Within Battel chapel. where the bicen-
tennial was inaugurated, the services
were participated in by an assemblage
as imposing as the airs were simple. On
the rostrum sat President Arthur Twin
ing Hadley. At his right was Rev.
Joseph Twichell D. D., of Hartford the
preacher of the bicentennial sermon. To
his left was Thomas G. Bennett, of the
Yale corporation. Next to DIR. Twichell
sat former President Timothy Dwight
On one end was Henry Howland of
New York; on the other, Rev. Charles
Ray Palmer, both Fellows of the uni
versity corporation. All wore the gowns
of their offices. Below, in the choir
stalls. sat a picked choir of students.
The body of the chapel was occupied
in the center aisle by distinguished del
egates and guests who wore academy
gowns with hoods of many colors. The
seats of the side aisles were filled with
Yale graduates, while the three galleries
were reserved for ladies'
The services began at 10:30 a.. m A
chant by the choir was followed by the
Lords prayer President Hadiey read a
lesson from the Scriptures and after the
TIE Deum the vast congregation sang
Psalm xiv. Rev Joseph Hopkins Twich-
ell of Hartford. the senior fellow of the
corporation, preached the sermon.
The closing hymn was Il Love Thy
Kingdom, Lord" written by Rev. Tim
othy Dwight, D. D. LII D., president of
Yale college from 1895 to 1917. Then was
sung the doxology and the benediction
was pronounced by Rev. Timothy
Dwight president of the university from
1866 to 1896
Meanwhile, special bicentennial ser
vices were held in other churches of the
city and special sermons were preached
by Rev. Newman Smyth, D. D., in the
Center church; Rev. Joseph Anderson, |
D. D.. of Waterbury, in the United |
church; and Rev. Walton Wesley Bat |
tershall, D. D., of Albany in Trinity |