New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-06-07
NASSAU IN HOLIDAY GARR.
LIGHTS, FLAGS, STUDENTS AND ALUMNI
READY FOR PRINCETON COM
MENCEMENT.

Princeton, n. J.. June odd Nassau's 155th COM
mencement season began here to-day with the
close of the undergraduate examinations at noon
Every train brought in crowds of alumni. eager to
be on hand for the Yale-Princeton baseball game
on the university field tomorrow and to the
parade of the incoming sophomore class. as it
passed through the campus and street tonight.
with its colors flying to the breeze. Everywhere
unmistakable signs of the chief happenings in the
college year are plainly in sight and the campus
and buildings have put their holiday garb.
Flags of orange and black float from their staffs
or Old North, the Library, Blair Hall, Wither-
spoon and other buildings the seats around the
historic cannon back of Old North have been
erected the front campus has been strung with
electric wires and incandescent lamps. and the
windows of Old North have temporary encasements
fitted out with electric lights. while the alumni
Headquarters dot the town. with their banners dis
played above them. All the rooms at the Prince
ton Inn and Nassau Hotel have been taken, and
the rooms in private houses are in such demand
that they will be taken up before tomorrow night.
In order to accommodate the crowds the two troll
lev lines which to Trenton have put on sew
eral extra cars. and many of the old grads viii
go to Trenton for sleeping quarters There seems
to be no doubt that tiiS commencement vial sur
pass all others i'll point of elaborate prepara-
tions and the bigness of the crowds. as well as the
features of the programme One OF the most inter-
es+ing parts of the progrannle-and which is a new
feare-is the exhibit of archaeological fossils OBJ
tanned by the Princeton expedition to Patagonia
and the archaeological collection, the results of the
American archaeological expedition to Syria year
- The raleontological exhibit comprises a full
collection of skeletons from Patagonia, including
+Lose of the sIoth glyptodon, porcupne, armadillo
and the different kinds of birds together with fos-
ellis of other rare animals found only in Patagonia
The complete plans of the new Little Hail. the
aei,,rn and the proposed building for the
Croduare School will be exhibition in the Art
Museum.
arraved in smart orange and black costumes, the
Ia ,J1
4 brass band from Newark furnished the music
for +he first year men they sauntered through
the streets singing their class songs. shooting fire.
rlks and cheering themselves into the coveted
sophomore year. The class numbers over three
hundred and practically every man was in line.
The procession paused at President Patton's house.
Prospect and congratulated by him and
wished a happy voyage through the stormy sea OF
the sophomore year. The march was then resumed
to Professor Woodrow wilson's, Professor Henry
van Dykes and Professor J. H Finley's houses
where short speeches were also made ny these
The Class Of 'e5 Which will graduated next
Wednesday, numbers 25S members and VIII ne tne tds
largest class ever graduated Inc CLASS OF 30,
whic- graduated 225 members, held the record up
G this Rosc9e exandr al " Go
man, Of Newburg, y. Y. is vice president and Rob
Here of the aGcomPshments Of the he cass 1so
football game i've i've on the track team and two on
the gun team. In sophomore year five in the Yale
on the iterconegte tennis team In junior year
the class took all the athletic captancies and in
senior year had six in the Yale football game,
four on the baseball team, two on the intercol-
egiate tennis team and eight on the track team It
has never seen Princeton lose a baseball cham
pionship. In literary way it has had repre-,
Princetonan' Tiger and Brtc-a -brac'' boards
It is the first class that ever Harvard beaten
in debate and contributed of the that
helped win the victory It reIegatcd the Washing
toms Birthday painting to the region of oblivion,
and has had remarka BILE career in many other
ways. AS of its members puts it.. 1t also had
a hand in the bloody riot with Pawnee Bills
punchers in 1899 and has lived through two small
pox scares. and now between the electric lights
and the Iocusts. perhaps 1t is not unfortunate
that the time of its departure has arrived"