New-York tribune., 1902-06-22
ENDING YEAR AT YALE
PROGRAMMES FOR CLASS DAY
AND COMMENCEMENT.
INTERESTING FACTS AND FIGURES OF
THE 1902 CLASSES. BOTH AGA
DENIIC AND SCIENTIFIC.

New-Haven. Conn. June q CSpeciaD.-ThIs week
sees the end the college life OF the 800 Yale
seniors who will be graduated OF "Wednesday in
BstteII Chapel There viii be the usual gathering Of
alumni from far and near for reunions Of classes
and the sisters cousins md aunts of the gradual
ing class will be hand in fuil force. Monday
morning Sheffield Scientific School seniors hold
their class day exercises Sheffield Lot. and
Monday afternoon the academic seniors hold theirs
the campus At o'clock Monday afternoon
the academic seniors will plant their class ivy
taken this year from the vine that covers the
schoolhouse in East Haddam. Conn. where Nathan
Hale. the martyr patriot and graduate of Yale in
the class Of 1913. taught before Joining the Ameri
Army. In the evening will come the senior
class dance, and this will close the part Of COM
mencement week that belongs strictly 10 %.
Yale commandments have for some years been
growing institutions. particularly the matter
graduate participation Every June
many score Of classes holding reunions in
New Haven. from the two hundred odd men who
come back for their triennias to the bare half
dozen who return perhaps for the last time
gether for their fftieth anniversary. Young and
old distinguished not distinguished. two days
the Yale campus at commencement time seems
&c level barriers and make them all brothers
One may see procession Of gray haired classmates
cheer dancing crowd Of triennlai men. a huR-
dred youths just out of college gather
around 4 class the sixties and give them the
'Iong cheer with nine Yales on the end of it
And at the alumni dinner, which is held at the
conclusion OF each commencement day, the classes
NIX together and get up in their and cheer
for Yale and for Yales president, a IL they were
ali undergrad aduates again.
commencement Sunday is the first event on the
weeks programme. II IS The recognized thing for
all Of the underclassmen give up their places
IN chapel the seniors and their friends. The
two graduating classes in caps and gowns. form
on the campus and march into Batten filling up
the floor of the chapel, while the guests and
families Of the seniors occupy the wide galleries
President Hadiey has continued the custom Of the
baccalaureate sermon. and has now for two years
delivered lay sermon that has come TO more
than fll the place OF the time honored discourse.
and that is packed with ideas for the men to take
with them into their Nfework
Monday morning the seniors hold their last
formal function in Battell Chapel, where the
class poem and class Grafton delivered Mon
day is class day. and o'clock in the afternoon
the great amphitheatre the campus near Dur
Zee, is filed with the families OF the graduating
class Outside. the seniors form in cap and gown
headed by a brass hand. and march into the in
closure. where there low benches filing up
the space between the tiers Of seats for the on
lockers. For three hours a half-dozen members
of the class hold forth in the class histories get
ting OF 'grfnds' on their classmates, which are
duly appreciated by their friends. Afterward the
Class. headed by the band, proceeds TO plant its
class ivy. and then marches in a long file 10 the
homes Of the more popular members of the faculty
The professors understand what is expected Of
them and are alwsys to be found home. Dean
Wright receives the lrst call, Professor PhilIips
the second, and President Hadley the last In the
evening the seniors don evening dress ami taxa
their girl guests to the Glee Club concert in the
Hyperion Theatre and afterward 10 the last
gathering Of the cass-the senior dance in Old
Alumni Hail.
Tuesday is set aside Reunion Day. All Of the
returning classes meet in Alumni Hall in the morn
ing. 10 the number Of about thousand. ana the
various classes respond speeches. In the course
Of the morning all OF the classes have their re-
unions in various in the college recitation
halis. ano oy noon everybody gets ready for the
chief event on the tubstion programme the Yale
Harvard commencement bail game. This is called
AZ O'Clock, but the procession cars and march
tng eleeses begins 10 move out Chapel-st by
O'Clock All Of the younger classes march out-a
dozen ot thern-in varied gala costumes with their