Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-10-25
GREAT DAY FOR OLD YALE
Celebration Closes with Elaborate
Exercises.
JUSTICE BREWERS ADDRESS.
President Roosevelt and Many Men OF
Distinction the Guests of the Uni
yersity--Names OF Those Presented
with Degrees OF LII. ID.


attend the bicentennial celebration at
Yale university.
On the arrival of President Roose-
welt at the station a big crowd was
gathered to greet him. The police.
however, made careful arrangements
to prevent any one getting within
unpleasant distance. AS the president
stepped from his car he was greeted
by Mayor John p Studley and Presi-
dent Hadley of Yale, who welcomed
him and escorted him to a carriage.
ond Regiment, in charge of Colonel
Sucher; the Second Company Gov
ernor's Foot Guards and the Second
Company Governors Horse Guards
were drawn up in front of the station.
Procession to Campus.
Headed by the band the procession
started for the campus. The route
was up Church street to Chapel and
up Chapel to the campus. The streets
were crowded all along the line by
cheering citizens, whom the president
was obliged frequently to salute. AS
a special guard three mounted police
rode near the presidents carriage to
see that no one approached it. At the
Phelps gateway on the campus the
president was greeted by the members
of the corporation. The party proceed
ed directly across the campus to
Dwight hall, where President Roose-
welt donned the academic robes, pre-
paratory to taking part in the central
commemorative function at the Hype-
rion.
Not long after 10 o'clock the aca-
demic procession to the Hyperion was
begun. The militia companies had
formed in two lines as a guard Of
honor on Elm street, and the process
sion passed out of the Elm street gate
way.
The procession moved down Elm
street to the green diagonally across
the historic square, back of the Phelps
gateway and through the campus
again to the Hyperion.
The Commemorative Address.
Associate Justice Brewer of the
Omitted States Supreme Court delivered
the commemorative address of 'Yale's
Relation to Public Service" In refer
ring to the attitude of Yale on the
questions of public matters and public
men Justice Brewer remarked: i
thank God that Yale men can recog
nize a Washington, though his first
name was not George
Reference to Washingto ton Cheered.
This reference to Booker T. Wash
Ington was greeted with great ap-
plause. In the course Of his address
Justice Brewer also said: "Our recent
war with Spain, for the deliverance of
Cuba, with it's resulting acquisition
Of Porto Rico and the Philippines, was
but one act in the great drama, whose
far distant prelude was ignorance, OPP
preston and hate, and whose final
song shall be the angel anthem first
heard by Judea's shepherds on Beth
lehem's plains. and yet to rise from
every human lip earth's glad reply to
heavens prophetic message. Add to
this the other recent products of in
ventive skill, the many and wondrous
machines for relieving the hand, and
by which all work is done with unex-
ampled exactness and rapidity, as we'll
as on a scale of constantly increasing
magnitude. Add also the wonderful
increase in our population, the throng-
ing multitudes coming out of every
people and race on the face of the
earth, with different habits of thought.
different notions of government, and
different degrees of intelligence, and
MT S.,hi ol,
are changing the conditions Of tie
great problem OF popular government.
These various causes are operating in
our midst to produce wealth, CONSOLE
dation, Capitalization. The rapidity
and multitude of commercial transac-
lions is seen in colossal fortunes, in
gigantic undertakings, in enormous f.
nancial consultations and correspond
ing organizations of labor
President HadIey and President
Roosevelt occupied seats together on
the front of the platform, the remain
der Of those in the procession being
seated in order Among those given
degrees of LII. D., We're the following
named persons:
Names of LII. d. Men.
Theodore Roosevelt, president of the
United States.
James Burrill Angel, president of
the University OF Michigan.
James Coolidge Carter, for many
years president of the New York Bar
association.
Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador
Of the limited States at tho Court NJ st
James.
Melville Weston Fuller, Chief Justice
of the United States.
Kazuo Hatoyama, professor law in
the University of Toxic
Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Har-
ward University.
William Peterson, principal of Nc
Gill University.
Seth Low. for many years presiden,
,1, ~. INT, .