The times., 1901-06-25
CLASS DAY At NEW HAVEN
A Shadow Cast Over Festivities by
Adelbert Hays Death.

Diplomas to BE Received by EGO Men
Alumni still Determined TO Carry
out the Nathan Hale Statue Plum
The Law school Exercises Held.
NEW HAVEN. June 2i.-The tragic and,
in some respects, mysterious death of
young Hay has cast a shadow over the
festivities of commencement week at
Yale, and was feelingly referred to by
President Hadley at the baccalaurete eX-
ercises in Batten Chapel yesterday. In
his baccalaureate address President Had
ley took as his text, We are members one
of another" pointing out the higher range
OF life, living. and aspiration which the
passing centuries have brought, and the
moral responsibilities imposed on young
men of our time only fulfilled as the col
lese graduate blends self-imposed obliga-
ton with assistance of the Christian $
faith
The Class-day exercises today followed
the regular lines, with the class grafton
and poem delivered at Battell Chapel in
the morning, followed by the class histo-
ries in the amphitheatre behind North
College in the afternoon, and the later
professional features. The class grafton,
by Richard Henry Edwards of Lisle, n.
y. on Training and Power was an eX-
position OF the value of purposeful work
in college life, and Of its results in making
each man active in eXertion. and, with
varying abilities. helpful to his race and
hiss generation. The class poem, by Paul
Thomas Gilbert. of Cincinnati, with The
Awakening of Pierrot" as the theme, de-
veloped in graceful stanzas the awakening
of the boy to the higher and more con-
stsnt aims of life work. The class will
be graduated on Wednesday with about
$50 men.
That the controversy over the Nathan
Hale statue is not ended is indicated by
q letter printed in the Alumni Weekly
today from Charles g. CatIin, Chairman
of the alumni committee which has been
raising funds for the Partridge statue of
hale. Mr. Catlin says that Mr.. Partridge,
after absence in Egypt and Palestine. has
returned and has begun work again on the
Hale statue at his studio in New York,
where inspection of the work is invited;
that the chairman has asked President
Hadley for a retraction of his reflections
on the project; that the discharge of the
corporation committee has renewed the
only element of organized opposition and
that the movement of the committee will
proceed right on until the statue is ready
for the commencement Of next year,
when we shall hope our alma mater VIII
graciously accept and place il on fitting
spot on her old campus" The raising OF
funds for the statue. Mr.. Catlin adds. win
begin again after the bicentennial cele-
bration. The letter does not refer to the
adverse vote of the corporation against
letting any Hale statue be put up on the
campus
The vote for q lay member of the cor
poration to I'LL the vacancy caused by the
death OF Buchanan Winthrop will be an
nounced on Wednesday. The impression
prevails here that A1r. Whitney viii be
elected, owing to the large vote that he
has probably polied among the graduates
Of the schools.
News has been received IN this city
that the University of Glasgow has con-
ferred the honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws on Prof. Thomas D. Seymour, of
Yale
The annual meeting Of the Yale Law
School Alumni Associ 3tion was held to-
day at Hendrie Hail at 12:30 p. m. with
alumni addresses, followed by the regular
anniversary exercises, including the
Townsend prize speaking and an address
by Justice Marcus +. knowltOn. Of the
Massachusetts Supreme Court. on 'Legis-
latlon and Judicial Decisions in Their
Relations to Each Other and the Law"
For the first time the exercises this year
were held in the auditorium OF Hendrie
Hall