Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-21
IT IS YALE'S DAY.
The Blue Floats From Every
 House Top and Window.
ELM CITY IS THRoNGED.

Visitors From Every State in the Un-
 ion at To-Day's Bicentennial Exer-
 cises-Many People From Water
 bury in Attendance-Preside Had
 ley's Address of Welcome.
 New Haven, Conn. Oct 21.-To-day Yale university, decked in festal at- tire. extended formal welcome to her returning sons and to the hundreds or distinguished guests from other instl- tutions of learning in this country ana across the seas who are here to at tel the celebration of her bicenten- nIal. The welcome was voiced otnc- ially~ in BatteIl chapel this afternoon by President Arthur Twining Hadley Of the university and responses to the greeting were given in behalf of the city, state and nation. and of the uni versailles of Great Britain and Contin- ental Europe. Delegates from thirty foreign universities and societies and from 125 American institutions were represented in the audience which filled every part of the gray stone chapel. Nearly all were gowned in the aca- demic costumes distinctive of their de gree of their university. 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 philos- ophy, the green of the medical depart ments. the white of tl:e masters of art and letters, the orange of science or the brown of fine arts. Everywhere was variety of color which combined with the universal blue of the Yale decorations gave a picturesque air of festivity to the dignified ceremonial.
 Aside from the exercises of welcome the days program included addresses descriptive of the advance of the past two centuries in various departments of learning. Just as yesterday was appropriately devoted to consideration of the religious side of life in the old university and the advance in theolog- ical thought, so to-day the work of the Institution in the departments of law and of medicine was presented The first of these addresses was by Thom- as Thacher, NJ. A.. of the New York bar. who discussed "Yale in Its Rela- ton to Law" Mir Thacher spoke in Battell chapel at 10:30. after he had been formally presented to the dele gates by the Hon Simeon E. Baldwin. LID, associate justice of the Connec- tcut supreme court. and professor of constitutional law at Yale The hymn composed by Rev Leonard Bacon, D.D. LL-D., former fellow of Yale and en- titled 70, God. Beneath Thy Guiding Hand.' was rendered with fine effect by large chorus.
 William H. We1ch. NJ. D., LL.D.. professor of pathology in Johns Hop- kins university, was the second speak CT at the forenoon exercises in the chapel. college song entitled, Gather Ye Smiles From the Golden lsies, composed by the Hon Francis M- Finch, LID. of the Yale class of 1S49, and sung on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the college, pre- teded the address. Dr Welch was in- troduced by Prof R. Fl. Chittenden, Ph-D.. director of the Sheffield Scien- t.-c school "Yale In It's Relation to Medicine" was the subject of his pa- per, which was careful and thought ful history of the work of the univer- sity in the medical department and a summing up of the progress of the sci ence through the study and research of Yale graduates who have won dis tinction in this path of learning.
 One of the features of the early morning was the dedication of the me morisl gateway erected by the class or -1S96 in memory of Ward Cheney and Gerard Merrick. two members of that class who gave their lives for their country in the Spanish-American war. The gateway was recently erected between Welch and Osborne halls as an entrance to the campus. The dedicatory ceremony was conduct ed by members of the class of '96.
 Until o'clock in the afternoon for nal exercises were suspended follow ing the address of Dr Welch in Battell chapel. but at that hour the chief gen. era1 feature of the days program was entered upon, when President Hadley began his address of welcome as fol- lows:
 Of all the pleasures and the duties which birthday brings with it the most welcome duty and the most ex- alted pleasure is found in the opportun- ity which it affords for seeing, united under one roof. the fellow members of a family who are often so far separ- ated. On this two hundredth anni- versary of Yale university, it is our chief pride to have with us the repre- sentatives of that brotherhood of learning which knows no bounds of time or place, of profession or creed.
 It knows no bounds of age, either among the hosts or among the guests. The Yale that welcomes you here in cludes in its membership all parts of the collegiate body from the youngest student to the oldest professor. Ii includes all those who, coming here without officially recognized connec- tion with the university itself, bear to 1t such relationship that they partake in it's spirit. and feel themselves shar- CTS of its glories and its duties. Nor is it the living alone that welcome you. Present with us in spirit are men who have recently gone from us, like Phelps