The age-herald., 1901-10-22
Delegates from 30 Foreign Uni versailles and 125 American
 institutions Present
ADVANCES IN PAST 200 YEARS
Senator Higgins Says 1t Is Partlcu- iarIy Grateful That Southern
 Alumni of Before the
 War Are Present.

sity extended formal welcome today to her returning sons ana to the hundreds of distinguished guests from other insti- tutions of learning in this country from across the seas who are here to attend the celebration of her bi-centennial.
 The welcome was voiced officially in Battell 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 na- ton and of the universities of Great Bri- tain and continental Europe.
 Delegates from thirty foreign universi- ties and societies and from 125 American institutions were present in the audience which filled every part of the Graystone Chapel. Nearly all the delegates were gowned in academic costumes, distinctive of their degree or of their university. The scarlet trimmed gowns and hoods of doctors of divinity were mingled with the purple of the learned representative of the law. the blue of the doctors of philosophy. the green of the medical de- pertinent. the white of the masters of arts and letters the orange of science and the brown of the fine arts and letters. Everywhere was variety of colors, com bined with the universal blue of the Yale decorations, which gave a picturesque air of festivity to the dignified ceremonial.
 Programme of the Day.
 Aside from the exercises of welcome, the days programme 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 of the New York bar who discussed Yale In Its Re- lation to Law" Mir Thacher spoke in Battell Chapel at 10:30, after he had been presented formally to the delegates by the Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, LID, As- sociate Justice of the Connecticut Su- preme Court and Professor of Constitu- tional Law at Yale. MT. Leonard Bacon, a former fellow of Yale, and entitled 70! God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand, was rendered with fine effect by large chorus.
 William H. Welsh, M D., IL. D., Pro lessor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University, was the second speaker at the forenoon exercises in the chapel. A college song entitled Gather Ye Smiles From the Ocean Isles, composed by Francis M. Finchail, IL. D.. of Yale, class of iS4s, end sung on the occasion of the 1s0th anniversary of the college preceded the address: Yale In Its Re lation toNMedicine," was the subject of his paper. Until 3 o'clock in the after noon formal exercises were suspended fol- lowing the address of pr. Welch, but at that hopr the chief general feature of the days programme was entered upon rhar, HaA L. n of welcome.
 In response congratulations to the Uni versity were extended by various speak CTS for the graduates. ex-Senator Hig- gins of Delaware, class of 1861; for the city of New Haven. Mayor John P Stud ley; for the State of Connecticut. Govern or Geo P. Mclean, and for the nation Senator O. H. Platt.
 Foreign representatives.
 Foreign and American universities were represented in the responses as follows:
 ''rhe University of Great Britain" James Williams. D. c. L., fellow of CiI- coin College. oxford; "The Universities of Continental Europe" Fedorovic Mar tens, IL. D., University of St Peters burg; universities of the South.'' Chas W. 'Dabney. Ph. D.. IL. D., president of the University of Tennessee; 'Universi- ties of the Vest" Dr. William Rainey Harper. president of the University of Chicago Universities of the East" Charles William Elliott. ILL. D., presi- dent of Harvard University.
 Senator Higgins, in speaking of the graduates, said:
 "Particularly grateful. Mir. President doubt not 1t Is to you. of the governing body of the university. as it is to us. that in response to your welcome we have today the representatives of the alumni from the states of the South, of the time preceding the war With you I venture to join in welcoming them in behalf of their brethren of the North. Alunnnae in- clude in their membership none in whom they are more interested. none of whom they are more proud. They ever took their place among those th their states who were eminent as statemen. as sol- diers. as scholars and divines."
 Large Parade at Night.
 Six thousand graduates and students of Yale marched in gay parade tonight in celebration of the university's bi-centen- nial.
 The enthusiasm of the visiting grad uates and of the whole student body was fairly let loose and the city of New I1a- ven tooksa large part in the celebration. The march of the ton of Eli was through streets bordered with blue, brilliant with many -hued lanterns and bright with elec- tric lights.
 Accompanying the Yale students and graduates were representatives of the militia and naval forces of the State, while several of Yales sister institutions of learning contributed their quota of members of the student body to assist in the academic parade Harvard Prince- ton. Trinity and Wesleyan were repre- sented, and their costumes were em- piematic of their respective institutions.
 Spectacular Scene.
 The parade was spectacular in the sx- treme. All the periods of the history of Yale and the country in the last 2o6 years were we'll symbolized from the Pequot Indian garb of the seniors to the caps and gown of blue worn by the un- der graduates. Each department of the