Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-27
THIS IS YALE WEEK.
Many Events Scheduled for To-Day
 in Commencement Exercises.

l New Haven, June 27.-IdeaI June
 weather was accorded to the second
 day of Yale's. commencement week, i the excessive heat ara humidity which made yesterday uncomfortable
 for the hundreds of alumni and guests
 of the seniors being tempered to-day | by a northwest breeze so that the con l ditions for the outdoor as well as the
 indoor exercises were practically per- l feet The day was crowded with 1 events. Both the Sheffield Scientific
 school seniors and the men of the
 academic graduating classes had class day exercises, the former assembling
 or Hillhouse avenue at the corner of Grove street and the latter in an am rhitheater on the campus
 ! The anniversaries of the law school and the medical school were also on Elihu Root, IL. D., ex-secretary of war, was scheduled to deliver an ad- dress before the law school seniors. while Professor William S. Halstead. M. D., LL. D., surgeon in chief of the Johns Hopkins hospital, was named as the principal speaker before the medi- cal school. In addition to thesel events, there were also important meetings during the day of the Yale prudential committe, the Yale corporal ton and the law school alumni asso-l ciation. A reception in Byers hall from to z o'clock, followed by thel glee club concert and the senior prom enade in Woolsey hall will occupy the evening.
 The class day exercies of the shef- field Scientific school graduating class were the first of the day. They wera TrraT>y LIa | WNr field hall and the Kirtland laboratory in Hillhouse avenue. Nearly 2,OOO friends of the graduating class assem- bled there, sitting in an amphitheater of banked seats like circus, the menl- bers of the class occupying the pit of the enclosure. According to custom each member of the class smoked the long class pipe which was passed from man to man. During the remainder of the exercises the long stemmed clay pipes were smoked by almost every man. As the historian reached each mans name he called out to those near him to ''put him up," and forthwith the individual was raised to the shoul- ders of his fellows and held in full view while his alleged college history was read off, accompanied with gibeS and jokes at his expense.
 The five historians were Edward Hall Putnam of New York, Robert Studebaker Binkerd of Brooklyn, N. T., Louis Henry Bgan, Savannah, Ga. Arthur Estcourt Sawyer New York city, and Bradford Brinton of La Sale III. After the histories had been read and several college songs sung the class, headed by q brass band, marched to each of the depart ments buildings and cheered vale dictory.
 The Academical departments classl day was held on the campus in lar ger amphitheater also temporary in structure Nearly three %@lousand class did not have individual histories like the eSheff" class, a departure be- ing made in that respect this year. With about three hundred men to deal with heretofore the histories have been too tedious.
 Tn place of the usual program the l presentation exercises of the class and [ the histories were combined into one program. The class orat1on was deliy- ! cred by Lansing Parmelee Reed of | Holyoke, Mass, and the class poem by | Frederick Erast1s Pierce of South l Britain A general history of the class | more ambitious literary effort than the old time histories, was read by I Lawrence Mason of Chicago The pro- gram was interspersed with songs by the class and the regulation pipe rites. Following these features the planting | of the class ivy at the library took place. The class marched to the place selected by the class ivy committee The ivy was planted by Willard Burr Soper of Bloomington, III, with re- marks suited to the occasion.