New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-06-25
DEGREES AT YALE.
HUNDREDS IN COURSE.
Judge Gray and Minister Boscen
Among Those Hon0red.
FBr rELEeRArH 10 TEE rR1nuNr- l


ary degrees. ard the annual alumni dinner this
afternoon For the first time the new woolsav
Auditorium was used for the commencement ex-
ercises.
Herbert ". Bowen. United States Minister 10
Venezuela. received the honorary degree OF NJ
a this morning. with enrolment IN the class of
IS. Of which he was a member. William De
Witt Alexander. 81. Surveyor General of Hawaii
received the honorary degree of LII u. as did
Thomas Thacher. IL Of New-York City: ex-
United States Senator George Gray. of Della
ware. and William Henry Brewer. The
Rev Dr.. Lyman Abbott Editor Of The Out
look" and the Rev. William Rogers Richards
pastor Of the Brick Church. in New York re
oeived the honorary degree Of n. d Among the
ether recipients Of the degree of n. a. were
George :. Hutchings, Of Boston. the builder Of
the Newberry organ, Just installed in woolsey
Hal. al Yale: Major J. s Petit. Z. s. A. Of the
sr-ny or the Philippines; President Charles Nil
lard Pratt, Of Pratt Institute. Brooklyn, Louis
c. Tiffany. Of New York and Benjamin Johnson
Lang. Of Boston.
At 10 2 n. when the procession Of graduating
classes and officials formed on the campus for
the commencement parade fifteen hundred Yale
men were II line
Seven hundred degrees were conferred. From
The academic department $50 men were gradI-
aced; from Sheffield Scientific School. 125; one
each from the Art and Music schools; from the
law School. g. from the Divinity School, %,
and from the Medical School -. The Master OF
Arts degrees numbered 81; Master q Laws, s,
Master Of Science. -: Mechanical Engineer. l;
Master OF Forestry. Is. Doctor Of Philosophy SO.
In Woolsey Hall the commencement pro
E-au1rne opened with the Prelude Choral and
Fugue" written ny David Stanley Smith, Yale.
20 recently elected an instructor in the Music
school. and . pupil Of Charles Marie Widor. OF
Paris Thu composer conducted the orchestra
Professor Jepson sat al the Newberry organ
The Rev Charles Edward Jefferson, OF New
YORK.. then offered the opening prayer. The ira
dftional singing Of Psalm LEy TO the chant
YORK which has been on the Yale commence
-nent programme since the first commencement
IN us followed
President Eadley then offered his annual re
FORT. in the course ~ which he said;
F-ze-v American university which gives the
degree Of Bachelor Of Arts has been confronted
with two questions: Shall the four years course
he retained and shall Greek Sun oe maze 80 ~
snsfs7ensz BE requisite for the degree The ITSt
Of these questions Yale continues 10 answer ~
the Affirmative The SECOND II mas oetI0ea "
answer IN the negative
TIE president commended the abolition Of the
sophomore societies. the extension Of the dorTi-
4o-v system 10 the Scientific School. made posi-
he bv the gift Of Frederick Vanderbilt and the
a--f.7 o< the trustees and - agents Of the
Yale alumni fund II adding $1,000 yearly 10
the income OF the university, together Win q
greater addition TO the principal in their charge
be cites the following gifts:
An addition Of $4,000 70 the endowment Oh
The Forest School furnished by the FlhcnoI
Family pror1lise Of five successive annual glI's
i-r an income OF 5000 each, in connection
-, -. ss-a h1isrnlent ard development OF the
ION mining COURSES. from John Hays Hammond
and beouest from William Lawrence McI1aIle'
After the ceremonies OF presentation. Edward
g-~{ar-s "T.sndkennuns'' was sung by stuoent
obo-,,e Ieona-d s Tyler "a. solo Elm Fes'e
Burg" was sung by the audience, as has oeen
-,-ero-7arv at the Yale commencement pro
e-a-orne FOR 2 century. The beneoictlon Vas
denounced " ex-President Timothy Dwight
Edward Cigars Military March rendered on
the Newberry organ, closed the exercises
A. . otclncl this afternoon the annual alumni
dinner was held IN the dining hall, which IS a
-s-t If the bicentenniaI group OF buildings ana
which was opened last year over nfteen nun
dred alumni were present At the dinner Judge
George GRAY. president Of the anthracite coal
commission. said IN part
..One lesson have learned and hope me
,r7----v has learned. from events which made
- ,,s1 strike commission necessary, and that
So bo-e<ulness for the future. There is no trou-
he so r,enacing or dangerous in the confllcts
1a-v-eer labor and capital that it cannot be
peacefully and righteously settled by the COM
mon sense OF the American people
Ee spoke Of the great influence an army OF
men irlbued with the teachings and the PTln-
~in1as n Yale scattered all over the country can
exert and recalled the leadership in national
affairs eyerted by her sons, mentioning espe-
~ts7lz TUdre William H. Taft in the Philippines;
-ora-7o- General Hunt. IN Porto Rico, and
T--f-e5 states Minister Herbert W Bowen II
Venezuela Judge Gray had been lauded Tor
t-ie ov-- efforts upon the recent coal commas
49, ,,-,,fr7-a5 hv President Roosevelt Re
e-=,r n that commission, he said that he had
personally been impressed with the fact IhaI Il
2 body Of seven sHch arbitrator appointed Dy
ne President from widely divergent secuoIs o.
-he country could hear the testimony gwen d.
their hearings and could arrive al judgment
unanimously which the public opinion ana coiii-
no, sanse, az the people indorsed there was not
r1uch danger that public opinion IN TINS 0o-iciS
would become so lax that troubles between IA
bor and capitaI would become vitality dangerous
though they be ever so threatening he SAID
that public opinion was so potent d factor that
educated men by their influence are able 10
WELD power hitherto unrealized, and the thou
sands annually graduated from American uni
versities swelled that number
He referred without going into details, to re-
cent atrocities in Russia. where. he said puDNc
opirion has done = good work forcing consid-
GRAFTON Of conditions there upon the governing
classes in Z manner that is hopeful.
Tr6re Gray said that tumults that appear
great and dangerous on the surface do not
reach 10 the depths, any more than in the
ooear The great undercurrenrs are changed by
the waves or by passing storms that seem 10 put
the whole ocean into turmoil.
II vas announced at the alumni dinner that