The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-21
YALE BUILDINGS DEDICATED.
WOOLSEY AND MEMORIAL HALLS
OPENED FORMALLY 4!

! OPENED FORnAAL1'
Judge baldwin Euiexizes President Wooises
A. the Greatest Yale Ever Had-Tn'nss
| mat Were Done In rus T1mo-Grad'
yates Coming Back for Reunions
New HAVEN, June 2O.-Many OF Yates
commencement guests arrived this After
noon TO- attend the dedication, this evening
OF Woolsey and Memorial halls, the New
berry memorial organ and also 10 near
the baccalaureate address delivered oy
! President Hadley Tomorrow morning TOT
the first time In Woolscy Hall. Many OF the
alumni are here already for their class re-
| unions.
The class of 70, back for It's quarter Gen.
! tennial. opened its headquarters this noon'
being the first GLASS to get ready Tor ios
guests. This 10 Herbert W. Bowen's class'
the United States Minister TO VenesueIa'
who is expected on Monday. Jonathan
Trumbull Of Valparaiso, Chill, was one OF
the first OF this class to reach hero
The Hon. Andrew D. White. recently
returned from Berlin, Is q member OF the
class OF SO, which celebrates It's fftfeth
anniversary. and will address the class
on Monday afternoon. His subject ie
"A Patriotic Investment The Hon. Wayne
Macveagh will preside at the meeting.
The class Of 1900 will be here 200 strong
for It's trienriAl.
The temporary amphitheatHes for the
class day exercises on Monday OF the AGA
dcmic senior. and the Sheffield Scientific
men were erected to-day on their respective
campuses. The commencement maid Of
1903 came late this afternoon and took q
Isk
rs they put the finishing, touches on the
temporary structures. Teas and small
luncheon parties were given in many OF
the college rooms, the hostesses being the
fair friends of the seniors.
The announcement was made to.nigh.
by the judges Of the competition for the
c. Wyllys Belts prize essay OF the sopho-
more class that the award had been given
to William Frederick Peter, I'd, OF Sey mour
Ind. The Albert Scarborough Cook prize
in poetry was awarded to Frederick Erastus
Pierce. 'O4, Of South Britain, Conn. for his
+. johnson Latin prize, for the class Of
'O3, was awarded to Harry A. Van Deventer
OF Elizabeth, N. j. The 'O6 prize was
awarded to Raymond H. White. New Haven.
Conn.
his Sabbatical year abroad this year to
attend to the construction Of the new New.
berry organ and who was to have presided
over the ceremonies of dedication tonight
was called away to-day by the death OF his
mother, Mrs. Oliver Wilmot Sanford Of New
York, at Newcastle, Ont, and the critical
illness Of his father, Henry Sanford vice.
president OF the Adams Express Company
At the dedicatory exercises Of the New
berry memorial organ, presented to the uni
versity by Mrs. John 8. Newberry Of De-
troit Mich, In memory Of her husband. and
Memorial Hall. the ,vesYbule CONNECTING
The Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin, Justice Of the
Supreme Court of Connecticut. was the
chief speaker. He said that the president
Of the university, after which the hall was
named, Theodore D. Woolsey. was the
greatest president Yale ever had He said
dent to bring to his Office that broadening
view that comes from foreign studies.
These freed him from that provinclalism
that marked his predecessors in the presi-
dency.
In summing up the work accomplished he d
said that he found Yale a college. and he
left it. though he himself hardly realized
| it at the time. a university The scientific
school was set up. The graduate school
was founded. The divinity school was re-
modelled and first began to confer de-
examinations for graduation introduced
and new standard Of scholarship required.
! University professors were appointed hay
ing no connects ion with any particular de-
] partment. Tho Peabody Museum was
established A new site for the observatory
| was obtained and the art school was opened
| the first in the world which formed part Of
university.
The building which bears President
! Woolscy's name Ia an auditorium. erected
$500. 1t is the finest building of the
kind in the country 1t has large main
floor seating capacity with sloping bal
! cony on three Sides supported by ten mas.
| sive white pillars. The freeco work Is all
| in white. In the rear Of the building ~ a
Newberry organ, which Was presided
over tonight by Wallace Goodrich, organist
OF Trinity Church, Boston; CASTOR M
Dothier, organist Of st. Francis Xayier't
Church New York city, and Prof. Harry
Jepson, the university organist., The organ
80 Goo '' " w
Memorial Hall, the second OF the Bi.
centennial buildings. il semi-circular, three
stories high, and cost about s4oo,ooo !,
will contain memorials to Jonathan Ed
wards, Chancellor Kent. s.. F, B. Morse
Horace Bushnell, Nathan Hale and Other
Yale worthless. On the second floor is
the room for the Presidents reception
and on the third floor a room for the Steinert
collection Of musical instruments.
The three buildings, which are known
| as tho Bicentennial series, all of which
| have now been dedicated were presented
to the university by the alumni at the time
OF the recent Bicentennial celebration
| at the cost OF more than 81 900 600. They
are all built Of Indiana limestone. with
granite trimmings. and cover the two
blocks from Wall and College streets or
the southeast, to High and Grove streets
on the northwest
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