The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-22
six THOUSAND SONS OF OLD
ELI MARCH IN GAY PARADE

he Celebration OF
VS. Bi=Centennial=
New Haven Joins
ties
S and graduates and students of Yale
e bration of the university's bi-centen-
j on of the exuberant spirit which has
: century festival from the beginning,
he spirit have been of more separate
e turning graduates and of the whole
the whole city of New Haven, ignoring
" town and gown" took a large part in
0 MS of Eli was through streets bordered
a nee of many hued lanterns.
the green and the reviewing stand and
the business section traversed by the
g display of blue bunting set off by
a nying the Yale students and graduates
n tatives of the militia and naval forces
sister institutions of learning contrib
t udent body to assist in the academic
and Wesleyan were represented, each
s in design and hue were emblematic
| bout two miles in length. Starting
orange colored lanterns bordered every
, asst their reflection upon the sky, the
way of the Phelps gate, and encircling
, ecial display of 1000 incandescent
: S, proceeded in review before the stand
ent Hadley of the University, Gov.
en-, and other men of prominence were
: sidential streets toward the western
: estern part of the business section to
back to the campus
in the extreme, the costuming being
; ter appealing at once to eye and the
! istory of Yale and the country in the
rom the Pequot Indian garb of the
: t of the procession, to the caps and
: too was represented by distinct cos
r ed in the tights and doublets of the
gowns of red and the Forest School
: ore of Japanese students in the uni
r rying float upon which appeared the
2 for Japan" All along the line were
: ends descriptive of the various classes.
e Foreign and American universities
:, were represented in the responses as
follows: The Univerties of Great Brit
ain, James Williams, D. c. L., fellow of
: Lincoln College, Oxford, the Universi-
: ties Of Continental Europe Fedora
Il Fedorovic Martens, Ill. D., University
= of ST. Petersburg; Universities of the
q South, Charles William Dabney, Phi. D.
LII. D., President of the University of
;, Tennessee; Universities of the West,
= DR.. William Raynee Harper, President
lof ,Nf
e ties of the East, Charles William Eliot,
: La D., President of Harvard Univer-
7, sity
$ Senator Higgins said in part, il
l. speaking for the graduates:
! Particularly grateful, Mr.. President
10 l doubt not 1t is to you, of the govern
d ing body of the university, as it is t
It us, her sons, that in the response t
your welcome, we have here today tn
d representatives of the alumni from tn
II states of the South of the time pre-
7. ceding the war. With you I ventur
II to join in welcoming them in behalf o
h this brethren of the porth. The alumna
: includes in their membership none VIII
$ are more interesting, none of whom
al they are more proud. They ever too
IF their proper place among those in thei
# states who are eminent as statesmen
$. as soldiers, as scholars and divines.
IF 1.-THE debt owed to Yale by the Who'll
Il American people is simply inestimablt
a With her elder sister, Harvard, she wa
E one of the first two institutions of tn
higher learning to be established b
e, the English-speaking people on thi
IS their new land. 1t is not mere boast
mi ing to say that the primacy of the tw
ST. Oldest colleges has never been dispute
l. by their sister institutions of the coun
fe, try. To what does Yale owe her shar
,el in this primacy?
lie Il deem it a part of the debt we ow
t. to the English migration to the Massa
E chusetts Bay colony between 1920 an
1910, which constituted and determine
vi the character of all New England. TIL
W Puritans contributed the best blood an
is the best character of old England t
lel New England and better has neVe
arl been found in, the earth's history.
leI ITO say that I deem it not invidiou
J., to the other sections of the country.
1T The descendants of the English set
IL tiers of Virginia, the Quakers of Penn
W sylvania, the Dutch of New York, tn
al Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of Pennsyl
Ol Vania and of all the South and Yves
Is have been rich in the great men the
rel have developed in all their vocation
of life; and in all the varied and sue
J., cessive exigencies of our American ex
J. perience. But. despite their sense o
Z value Of sound learning and thei
lie, strenuous efforts to establish school
Il and academies and colleges, their see
" did not fall on so fruitful a soil as tina
=, of New England. And so today, whel
n the tree planted by ministers at Brain
y tree is 200 years old, we who, not find
$. ing elsewhere what we wanted, foun,
T. 1t here, come back on this day to lay il
If the lap of our mother the tribute of gu
lie admiration, our gratitude and gu
ei love"
= The exercises closed with the read
k ing Of the names of universities, col
= leges and learned societies sendin,
le delegates.
e At 3 o'clock this afternoon Presiden
Isl Hadley received the distinguished
h guests of the university and represen
tatives of the alma in the school of fin
: arts buildings.
The final feature Of the day was tn,
spectacular parade of students ant
l graduate Of Yale, accompanied BY
student delegations from other institu
tons, who marched through the city,
l gayly- decorated streets, gowned il
costumes symbolic of the history of tn,
two centuries. Fully 1000 men were il