New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-30
YALE CONFERS DEGREES.
HONORS FOE FILIPINOS.
Ran Stopped the Procession-Mace
Used for First Time.


New-Havsn. Corn. June % CspeciaD.-Seven
hundred candidates were invested with degrees
at Yale to-day in the presence of the largest of
assembiages ever gathered on a commencement
day IN New-HGven. The exercises were held in
Woolsey Hail.. but that was inadequate to
accommodate the crowd. The seats We're filed
and many o: ire audience ha6 TO stand IN the
eises
The Day opened inauspiciously with rain which
fell f.. occasional heavy showers until about 10
o'clock. when the dowapour ceased. But the Sky
still overcast with clouds which threatened
more showers. and that account it was de-
cided 20 omit :he customary procession OF
seniors and other candidates for degrees. mem
bers Ct the faculty and corporation. invited
guests anc graduates. Many Of these who We're
20 take part In the procession had assembled on
the college campus. and were waiting for the
formation of the line when word came that the
parade had been declared off The candidates
for degrees accordingly gathered in the univer-
sity quadrangle. and passed into the hall in a
body. while the corporation. members of the
faculty sEG invited guests proceeded 10 the
platform
Among the prominent guests the platform
IN woolsey Hall were William H Taft Secretary
OF War; General Stewart L. Woodford, Wong
Kai Kah. Chinese commissioner to the St. Louis
United States Circuit Court; Whitelaw Reid,
Governor John G. Brady of Alaska, President
Gordon of Tabor College. Iowa; members of the
Yale corporation and faculty. and candidates for
honorary degrees.
Following the preliminary exercises. which in
clUSed the rendition Of the sixty-ffth Psalm,
which was sung a the opening OF the first col
leEe erected IN New-Eaven. IN IT'S the candi-
dates for degrees upon examination were for
i ill
The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred
upon go candidates and OF Bachelor of Phi
Iosophy on 172: one candidate was made Bach
elor of Fine Arts; one a Bachelor Of Music; 60
Bachelors Of Laws: 81 Bachelors of Divinity:
81 Masters of Arts; Masters of Laws; Mas
ters OF Science; . Civil Engineers: . Mechanical
Engineers; % Masters of Forestry; % Doctors
Of Medicine. and 50 Doctors OF Philosophy.
The candidates for honorary degrees were next
presented. and degrees were bestowed follows
by President Hadley:
Doctors of Law-Don Cayetano Arellano,
Chief Justice of the Philippine Islands: William
Stewart Halsted, professor of surgery in Johns
Hopkins University; Robert Weeks De Forest,
first Tenement House Commissioner of the city
Of New-York, president in 1903 of the National
Conference Of Charities and Correction, a pub
lie spirited citizen OF New-York City; Charles
Richard Van Hise, one of the greatest geolo-
gists IL America, and president of the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin: George Chandler Holt. United
States District Court Judge OF New-YoTk.
Doctors Of Divinity-Henry Churchill King
president of Oberlin College. a distinguished
writer theological subjects; Stewart Means
rector Of ST. Johns Church, New Haven and
author Of st Paul and the Ante-Nicene
Church
Doctor Of Music-Frank Heine Damrosch. su-
pervisor Of music in the NeW-York public
schools and conductor of the Oratorio Society.
Masters Of Arts-William Cameron Guthrie
distinguished New-York lawyer and lecturer on
constitutional law; Pardo de Tavera, senior
Filipino member Of the Philippine Commission;
William Henry Goodyear. curator OF fine arts
in the museum Of the Brooklyn Institute and dis
coverer of important architectural refinements
in searly icathedrals; Samuel Edwin Merwin
prominent business man and citizen of New
Haven. once Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut:
ARENAS Jean Haynes pastor of North Church
New-HaYen; Edgar Gardner Murphy. executive
secretary Of the Southern Education Board. one
OF the most prominent leaders OF the educa-
tional movement in the South, and a man that
has stood for all that is best in Southern citi-
zenship; George Payne Mclean, Governor OF
Connecticut 1901-'03