The sun., 1903-06-22
NOYALE BACCALAUREATE BOW
ANOTHER FAMOUS Custom GONE
FROM NEW HAVEN LIFE.
President Hadley spoke in Woolsey Memo
rial Hall and There Was No Middle
Aisle Down which He Could Pass at
the Close--His Farewell to seniors.

NEW HAVEN, June 21-For the first time
in years the senior bow to the president OF
Yale after the baccalaureate address, one
of the traditional features Of the Yale COM
mencement week, was cut out OF the exer-
cises to o-day, because there is no centre
aisle down which President Hadley could
pass in Woolsey Memorial Hall, where he
delivered his baccalaurate this morning
In Battel Chapel, where the baccalaurate
ceremonies have taken place heretofore
after the baccalaureate had been delivered.
the president of the university walked
down the centre aisle and as he passed
the rows of seniors every member of the
class bowed low, the farewell bow to the
head of the college.
The omission of the bow to-day made
some OF the old graduates who were in
the audience feel that another one of the
cherished customs of the university had
been brushed aside in the progressive
march of young Yale. In the immense
throng that filed the building were hum
dreds of the alumni, back for class reunions
that will start Tomorrow. 1t was said
tonight that there will be a larger crowd
here for this commencement than has
been on seen the campus in ten years.
In the face OF a terrific downpour the
Commencement Girl was out in full force
to listen TO the baccalaureate and to watch
the 300 or more seniors that occupied
reserved section in the centre of the hall.
President Hadley said in closing his ad-
dress
GENTLEMEN OF THE GRADUATINo CLASS
You are ambitious, and justly ambitious. to oe
ftfa N III in
you can prove your right to exercise mat
leadership: by good judgment or by herosm.
The opportunities for the exerGise Of jndg-
ment a re- obvious to every man. The develop
ment Of civil liberty and Industrial organila-
tion has made them larger than they, ever
were before just as long as your r ealoula. ,,nn,
selfish man will follow you with the same
fidelity with which the gambler stakes his
iieves to be the shrewdest card player. Sue
cess and fidelity of this kind are so conspicu-
GUS and 50 widely heraded that some people
dsty su, they xSr'h are @fens world is
than game Of cards. History is more than
is more than selfish belief in the accuracy
of another mans predictions. 10 com
punty which has no higher Ideals d dhsn thesf,
were true, as large section Of the community
seems Y believe. that mans success IS
measurA by the money and the offices which
he can command. or that the test of good
education is to be found in the fact that it
fits a man to make money and to get offices
the Hn American ca snJ republic would be fast ap
In the face OF conditions like. these. we
need to insist more than eyer before on the
that devotion 70 ideals which pnderlies social
order and soce 6ev win hsys
othe9 ssnss sysbos siS 50 Of SAKE q the
and to despisa the man who thinks Of the
money or Offices rather than Of the use he can
make OF them. 1t is this way Of estimating
in his dealings with others, which makes
him a patriot when his country calls for his
Ser whh Of aees s and am his deas o day
living, These are the things which count
In the long run.
vol you yst vstue out h Of it, be assured that the
by what it can get out Of you. man who
may may fs have foiiowers in prosperity :but not
in adversely. He can secure plenty Of syco-
SS S,Ds bS R66 rsd 1ss. ha h. aod nan on whs hs
he can put into il; who deals ,courteously
with his associates. patriotically with his,
or form, has that spirit Of devotion to an ideal
which is the essential thing in rellgion--that
man makes himself part Of o,tkas wSIld which ne
the hope OF material success.
II you pursue truth. people will be true to
ali their ideals If you love others, others
will love you. and you will help to teach them
a wider charity in all their dealings with
ments OF your leadership. not as prlvi-
lege Of your own. but as trust to be con,
secrated TO the Lord. even as David poured
the life blood Of his followers. then may you
be sure that each man who was devoted before
Hnd, brought home to his heart. the true
meaning Of success In life, as no material
prosperity or intellectual argument could