The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-05-05
HIGHEST POSSIBLE HONOR
WILL BE PAID GREAT ENGLISH
 SCIENTIST BY YALE.
Lord Kelvin SVtli be Made the Recip- tent of the Degree of l.. l.. D., in Battell Chapel at 3 0'cIuck This Afternoon.

6 q Special exercises, very appropriate tC the occasion, will be held in Battel
 chapel at o'clock this afternoon, whel the degree of IL. D. will be conferred
 upon Lord Kelvin, the distinguished British scientist, by Yale university. l
 is an unusual thing for Yale to confer
 a degree at any time other than at com
 mencement but, inasmuch as the de
 gree was voted to Lord Kelvin last fall
 Yale will make an exception to the rule
 and pay honor to the great scientist to-
 day The exercises will be similar to
 those at commencement. During the
 ceremony all regular exercises will be
 omitted. The faculty will assemble in
 Dwight hall at 2:30 The corporation
 deans of the different departments and
 invited guests will meet at the same
 hour in the old library. Faculty and students will, so far as possible, wear academic costume. The student process sion will consist of the seniors of all de- partments and the members of the Graduate school. These will meet at the places assigned to each and will march to the campus in time to form in line at 2;45 The order will be as fol- lows:
 Academic seniors-West end of Van derbilt hall Campus side); Dr. Reed, marshal
 Sheffield Scientific school seniors Campus entrance to Vanderbilt court yard; Professor Corwn, marshal,
 Graduate school-Between Osborn hall and South Middle; H. B. Wright, marshal.
 Theological school seniors-South end of Welch hall; Dr. Heermance, mar shal.
 Medical school seniors-Opposite mid dle of Welch hall; Professor Ferris. marshal.
 Law school seniors-North end of Welch hall; Dr. Foster marshal.
 The procession will start at 25O, pro- ceeding north from the university li- brary to the old library, east to Phelps hall, and then north to the chapel. When the head of the line reaches the chapel door the procession will stop and form a double row extending from the old library to the chapel, through which the faculty and corporation will pass, headed by the chief marshal, Professor Corwin. The students will enter the chapel in regular order according to their respective departments. The fac ulty will be seated on the stage and in the transepts, the academic seniors in the center aisle, the Sheffield seniors in the north aisle and the Graduate and professional school men in the south aisles. The galleries are to be reserved for the families of the faculty members holding tickets until 2:50 o'clock, when they will be thrown open to the public.
 The exercises will consist of music, prayer, the presentation of Lord Kel- win for the degree, the comforting cf tha degree and an address by the recipient.
 The committee in charge of the event of Professors Seymour, Chit tenden, Wright and Phillips and Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, jr. Professor Browning will have charge of the seat ing of the assemblage.
 Lord Kelvin, accompanied by Lady Kelvin and her maid, arrived in this city Saturday. They were met at the station by Professor Seymour, with whom they are stopping while in New Haven Yesterday Lord and Lady Kel- yin were driven about the city and were very favorably impressed with the nat lral beauty of the city. President and Mrs Hadley entertained the distin- gushed guests at dinner in the evening ' many of the members of the Yale fac l Ilty. the deans of the different depart ments and some of the members of the being present.
 Lord Kelvin and party will leave own this evening for New York, where i hey will remain until Saturday, when ! hey will sail for home on the Lucania |
 Lord Kelvin (William Thompson) is f me of the few great living mathemati- 'ians and national philosophers. He | vas born in 1924. His father was pro- essor of mathematics in the Univer- Iity of Glasgow. Lord Kelvin gradu- tied from Cambridge in 1S45 as second | vrangler and first Smiths prizeman. i where he was shortly afterward elected O a fellowship in St. Peters college; md became professor of natural phil 'sophy in the University of Glasgow in S46 This appointment he still holds. While still an undergraduate he pub isted several valuable papers. He was or some time editor of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, and some of his most brilliant discoveries have appear d in it's pages. He has also contrib tied to the Comptes Rendus, the traus- ctions and proceedings of the royal ocieties of London and Edinburgh and arious other journals.
 He was also greatly and actively in- crested in the construction of trans atlantic cables, being associated with 'yrus W. Field. Lord Kelvin has kept breast of the times in all the sciences, nd has few, if any, equals in his spe- ial lines of work. His reputation is rorld-wide, and. while he is noted as ritter, he is still more prominent as a ,cturer.
 The tribute to be paid to Lord Kel- in this afternoon is the greatest within ne gift of a university.
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 PRIVATE BRANCH FXCHANGF