The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-22
THE OCCASION IS IMPOSING
Delegates from Thirty Foreign
 Universities.
One Hundred and Twenty-Five Amer ican Institutions are Represented. President Arthur Hadley Well
 comes the Visitors


 University extended g formal welcome today to her returning sons and to the hundreds of distinguished guests from other institutions of learning in this country and 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 Presi- dent Arthur Twining Hadley, of the Uni versity. 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.
 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 the academic costumes, dis tlnctive of their degree or of their uni- versity. The 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 science and the brown of the fine arts and letters.
 Blue Seen Everywhere.
 Everywhere was a variety of coiors. combined with the universal blue of the Yale decorations, which gave a pictur- esque air of festivity to the dignified cere- menial.
 Aside from the exercises of welcome, the days program included addresses descriptive of the advance of the past two centuries in various departments of learn ing The first of these addresses was by Thomas Thacher of the New York Bar, wine discussed ''Yaie in It's Relation to Law" Mir. Thacher spoke in Battell Chapel at 10:30. after he had been pre- sented formally to the delegates by the Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin. IL. D., Asso- ciate Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court and Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale. The hymn composed by the Rev. Mir. Leonard Bacon, former fellow of Yale, and entitled 70! God, Beneath Thy Guiding Hand" was render ed with fine effect by large chorus.
 William H. Welsh, M. D., IL. D., Pro- lessor of Pathology in Johns Hopkins University, was the secopd speaker at the forenoon exercises in the chapel. A college song entitled Gather Ye Smiles from the Ocean Isles," composed by Francis M. Finch. IL. D., of the Yale class of 1S49, and sung on the occasion of the 15Oth anniversary of the college. pFeoeded the address: "Yale in its Rela- tion to Medicine" was the subject of his paper
 President Hadley Speaks,
 Until 3 o'clock in the afternoon formal exercises were suspended following the address of Dr. Welch, but at that hour the chief general feature of the days program was entered upon when Presi- dent Hadley began his address of wei come.
 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, Gov ernor George P. McLane, and for the nation, Senator O. H. Platt
 Foreign and American universities were represented in the response as follows:
 The University of Great Britain, James Williams. D. c. L., Fellow of Lincoln College. Oxford; the Universities of Con- tinental Europe. Fedorovic Martens IL. D., University of St. Petersburg Universities of the South. Charles W. Dabney. Ph. b, IL. D., President of the University of Tennessee; Universities of the West. pr. William Rayney Harper, President of the University of Chicago; Universities of the East. Charles Will liam Elliot. ILL b. President of Harvard University
 Senator Higgins, in speaking of the graduates. said: Particularly grateful. Mir. President I doubt not, 1t is to you of the governing body of the university as 1t Is to us, that in response to your well come we have here today the representa- tives 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. The alumnae include in their membership none in whom they are more interested, none of whom they are more proud. They ever took their place among those in their States who were eminent as statesmen, as soldiers. as scholars and as diVlnes"