New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-28
HANGERS IN VAST POWER
ROOT SOUNDS WARNING
gis Speech TO Yale Seniors-CIass
DAY Exercises.
my TELEGRAPH TO THE rnrsrxr.l

,r3c instinct IN the people. which should be kent
.-ng M Roots speech vas the chief feature
= +,,e class day exercises. which were witnessed
= Tremendous thronS Of students and visitors
william H. Taft, Secretary Of War spoke at the
.,,rcises II the Yale Law School
An important meeting OF the Yale corporation
as he'd this afternoon. 1T which many appo;nt-
erts OF professors and assistant professors were
-sde and the designations Of Norris F TYLER
.-asurer OF -he university. and Professor Ladd and
ro-rance we're accepted. While this meeting was
,dng On ths Medical Schoo! anniversary exercises
xsrs being held, AT which Professor William G
Basted. Of Johns Hopkins University delivered
an address. Following this address honors at
sined by members Of the school were announced
This evening the Glee and Banjo clubs gave
concert il Woolsey Hall and the academic seniors
tsld their annual ball in Alumni Hall.
The programme tomorrow includes the alumni
--esting in the morning. the meetings Of the various
classes attending reunions and in the afternoon
ne Yae-Harvard ball game. beginning at o'clock
Il the evening the various classes will hold dinners
CLoUDLEss SKIES AND BREEzEs.
The cay opened with cloudless skies and re-
,-sshng wind from the northwest which prom
.sed delightful weather for the host OF alumni and
cher visitors Toward noon the sun went behind
curtain of clouds, but this only served 10 add 70
,ss favorable conditions for the outdoor exercises
IN contrast with the custom OF former years the
rass day exercises OF the Sheffield Scientific School
nent we're held to-day. and there other
changes from the usual order of things which
made the day particularly crowded with events
Heretofore the Sheffield class exercises have ben
N OF the Saturday preceding commencement
week The crowd in the amphitheatre when the
Sheffield class began its programme at 1920 o'clock
,sis morning numbered fully two thousand. the
,-ester mart az the audience being women whose
rg6t summer costumes made a brilliant circle OF
color The amphitheatre. which. like that Of the
academic department was a temporary affair was
erected IN Enclosure between Sheffield Hall
and the Kirkland Laboratory, in Hilhouse-ave.
The guests occupied seats arranged in tiers Ike
those Of a circus while the graduates in their
robes. the fat lawn within the circle The
usual long stemmed clay pipes were much in eE7-
dsnce and during most of the exercises the smoke
rings rose in considerable volume above the heads
Of the class men. The long class pipe, gayly
decorated with ribbons. was passed from mouth
70 mouth and eacn solennly took q few
xhifs before passing # n his neighbor
THEIR FoIBLEs EXPLOITED.
The class historians were Edward H. Putnam.
New-York: Louis Il. E2gan, Savannah. Ga: Robert
s Binkerd. BROOKLYN, y Y; Arthur Il SAWYER
NeN-York and Bradford BrintOn. La Sale. Ill
The histories were hlled with witty illusions 10
Individuals in the class and as each mans name
was called by the speaker he was raised on the
shoulders OF nearby classmates amid shouts OF
.objes and virtues were described by the historian,
Il was thus held in fun view Of the audience.
College sougs sung 10y the class afforded 4 varia-
ton 20 the programme At the conclusion OF the
.rer,ises the class. headed by a brass band,
marched around the different buildings Of the
scientific department and gave lcsty cheer for
The halls
The class day exercises OF the academic seniors
offered from those Of the scientific department In
other years Il has been customary with the aca-
-f,a une q -
fhe history Of each man in the class while he was
Put NJ before the assembled multitude But the
Increasing size II the academic classes has made
this procedure irksome alike for the audience and
the seniors themselves, So instead Of having
number of historians. who took sections of the
class man by man FOR their gibes. there was only
one class history to-day Il was n finished effort
from q literary point Of view. covering the annals
Of the class only IN general way.
AUDIENCE NUMBERED THREE THOUSAND
r was estimated that the audience in the tenn
porarv arnphitheatre erected the college campus
numbered three thousand. and the brilliant scene
Of the Sheffield gathering was repeated here, only
magrifed. The class Grafton was delivered shortly
after the exercises were formally opened At p. m.
BY Lansing Parmelee Reed, Of Holyoke. Mass,
and after music the class poem was rected by
Frederick Erastus Pierce. OF South Britain, Conn,
70 whom also falls the honor OF leading the class
IN scholarship and Of winning the De Forest prize
=
history by Lawrence Mason, of Chicago. followed.
There were the usual pipe rites similar 10 those
Performed earlier in the day by the Sheffield
seniors. and much singing Of college songs.
When the exercises in the amphitheatre were
completed the seniors headed by the class marshal
marched 10 the library where the ceremony OF
planting the class Ivy outside the walls Of that
building was carried out. Willard Burr Soper, OF
Bloomington H. conducted the ivy planting. and
also delivered the Grafton in behalf Of the class
This years senior class IN the academcal de-
partment numbers 2S9 that Of the Sheffield School
IA
The dinner Of the Alumni Association Of the
Yale Law School held in the library OF the
school Following II. brief and informal remarks
were made by President Hadey. Dean Henry
graduates present. Various reports We're also made
u the progress OF the school all OF them encour-
aging % its friends
DILL SPEAKS OF SUCCESSFUL LAWYERS
Toasts were responded TO by William H Taft.
Secretary OF War; EHhu Root. ex -Secretary OF
War; Judge William h. Townsend James b. Dill
and Roger Foster, OF New-York. The alumni
chose Leroy MUnson president and George E.
5eers secretary and treasurer
III. Dtu said II part
The topic assigned me requires answer TO the
! L should answer your question specifically as
70 why the graduates Of this department succeed
single statement not only popular but true. /
should say that they were the products or Yale.
*nd that the Yale spirit. Yale training and the
s2le grit the Yale energy and the Yale individual
ISM WINS IN the ranks or the legal profession as IL
= winning in all other walks Of life
To be unsuccessful man in the world at large
= not uncommon and attracts attention. but 10
le az unsuccessful and Yale man is com
e-nation that attracts comment wherever IL IS
Hound
The average man. not the Yale man. during his
entire course n the Law School. and immediately
after graduation is looking for backing for sup
yort de r. looking Tor a continuance OF me
parental care and the result 10 him Is the weak
ness Of infancy. and when and II he finds Ench