New-York tribune., 1906-06-25
YALE EXERCISES BEGIN.
President Hadley breaches Bacca-
laureate Sermon.

New Haven. June "a (speciaD.-Yale Unversty's
commencement began to-day. when President Ar
thur T. Hadley delivered the baccalaureate sermon
In Woolsey Hall This year the expectation is
that there will be exceptional number of gradu-
ates back 10 attend their reunions including many
notable Yale More than twenty classes, from
&c TO 90. have arranged 10 hold reunions The
regular reunion classes will be '46 81. IS. 81. 6S.
n. 7s. 81. IS. 81, Sc 90 and Os There will also
be the usual annual reunions of classes which
have kept up that custom, including 'J2-the class
Of Justice Harlan, George ". Smalley. Andrew D.
White and Edmund Clarence Stedmac-and S3.
All Of the undetached graduates who return will
meet in the common class Of '1492 established last
year.
The baccalaureate sermon followed by an
organ recital by Professor Harry B. Jepson in
Woosey Hall. and by the annual meeting of the
Yale Foreign Missionary Society in Dwight Han
this evening.
Tomorrow will be class day for the two under
graduate departments At the Yale Law
School Alumni Association will meet in Hendrie
Hall for speeches by prominent jursts to be fol-
lowed in the Auditorium by the Townsend prize
speaking by seniors. with address to the gradu-
ating class by Victor n. Metcalf, Secretary OF
Commerce and Labor The academic class pres
entaton exercises are TO take place at p m on
the campus. with class Grafton. poem and humor-
Gus history. followed by the planting Of the class
ivy. At p. the Yale Medical School will meet
in College Street Hail. with address to the
graduating class by Professor William W Keen.
on THE Community of Interest of the Public ana
the Medical School" Tomorrow evening there viii
be a senior reception in Byers Hall by the gov
erning board and graduating class Of the Shetheio
Scientific School, followed by the commencement
Glee Club concert in Woolsey Hall. At 10 p m
Will come the senior class promenade In Woolsey
Hall
TUESDAY ALUMNI DAY.
Tuesday will be Alumni Day. At 10 m there
will be a general alumni meeting in Alumni Hail.
with an address by President Hadey. including ms
statement for the year. At 10 a. m also the polis
will be opened for the election of a member OF the
Yale Corporation chosen by the graduates to sue
ceed Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, IS, who has
sgnifed his desire retire. 1t is understood that
the choice will lie between Charles T. Cathn. OF
Brooklyn. and William II. Taft Secretary OF war
At 3 p. m will the annual commencement
baseball game with Harvard. at Yale Field at
which the recent classes will appear In costume
Among the odd costumes arranged for this year
will be q convict's garb by one of the classes and a
Buster Brown costume by another class, each
member leading a bulldog. After the game the
classes will march the campus and disband TOT
their reunion dinners. following which Will come
the usual counterruarch to the campus for hlght
of illumination.
Glass Secretaries Association will meet in Dwight
Hall at $50 a. m. and at 10 a m. the usual pro-
cession of guests candidates for degrees, faculties
and graduates will form on the campus ana pro-
ceed Woolsey Hall, where the degrees VIII oo
conferred. At 1:30 p m. there will be the annual
mass dinner Of graduates in the new dining hall.
The presidents reception in Memorial Hail that
evening will close the week, except for the poaI
race at New London on Thursday
Many we'll known Yale men are expected at the
class reunion this year. The class of 80 holds its
fftieth anniversary of graduation In the class are
Senator Depew, Justice David ]. Brewer, Justice
Henry B. Brown and Charles T. Catln- In the
class of 81 are Judge Simeon z. Baldwin, OF the
Z b.
Dexter of Yale; Anthony Higgins, of Wilmington,
Del; Brayton Ives, of New York City; Samuel H.
Lyman, of New York City: Oliver McClintock. of
Pittsburg; DR. James ". McLane. of New York;
Professor Tract Peck, of Yale; Professor wv. D.
Sheldon, Of Girard College, and George D. Bonney,
of New York City. In sc are DR.. L. Duncan Bulke-
ley, of New York; James L. Cowles; Professor w
W. Farnam. of Yale: Dr. A. B. Fuller of New
Haven, and Henry T. Sloane of New York. In
! II are Charles Hopkins Clark of Hartford; Thomas
| Thacher. of New York. and Judge w. X. Townsend
/ of New Haven. In 76 are James B. Dill. of New
| York; President Hadley Of Yale. William Waldo
Hyde OF Hartford. and Professor c. C Swisher, of
Washington.
| DR. HADLEY'S BACCALAUREATE.
! President Hadley took for the text of his bac-
calaureate Acts xvi. 81: Believe on the
| Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. and
! thy house" He said:
T., AS We soc what the world is doing in science and
| IN industry, in commerce and in politics, all
| wish 10 have our part in its achievements, We
! despise the man who is content to stand passive
/ We desire that when own work is over-be it
ten years hence. or twenty. or ffty-some tangible
/ Of history. Men saved by what they do, not
belief of the present age, and it is belief which
! hnds response in the heart OF every of us.
be done right; done to stand instead of fall done
/ own transient selves; to make work count in
/ the final result it must have purpose well
/ efficiency. If you never look beyond what you are
doing you never can be sure which way 1t is going
to tell If you care for nothing but the figures Of
/ you forward one day. and backward the next To
stars -
/ The very splendor of the modern worlds achieve
becomes absorbed in the doing of things that it
loses IT'S sense Of direction This is why We say
worse than previous ages. not because 1t is less
The very swiftness of to-days current and the joy
! of moving with il make it the more constantly
! fixed and permanent in order to he sure that We
! are going forward and not backward. The man OF
faith is the man who shapes his course by the
rather than by the current and who looks at the
Small minded men regard faith as a theory: large
minded men use it as practical working power to
Turn back to the he chapter that was read this
by faith. Through faith they 'subdued kingdoms
wrought rishteousness, obtained promises stopped
| escaped the edge Of the sword, out Of weakness
% sb ds 9Se aTms @ hs IN hsh turned
SAYS FAITH WILL PRESERVE NATION.
which will enable you to do this. 1t is the thing
| small failures. or even by failures which for the
m2ment may seem over~ helmingly large; the thing
which not only looks worth doing, but is worth
doing, If your country has men Of faith among
Of faith no amount OF Intellectual progress or ma
But what, you win say has all this TO do with
our text? How will belief in the Lord Jesus Christ
making