New-York tribune., 1907-06-25
CLASS DAY AT YALE.
o SUN SMILES BLESSING.
"lShef" and College Seniors address
Big Cro7cds.


sunshine whose welcome was too intense if any
thing. Yale seniors and fifteen hundred alumni
began to-day the active commencement week
programme. All of to-day's exercises centred
around the class of O7. and the graduates were
guests and spectators. instead of actual partici-
pants Tomorrow is reserved for the alumni and
their long list of dinners and reunions will then
be gayly held. This afternoon was devoted to the
class day exercises of the college. this morning
10 those OF the scientific school and to the COM
mencements of the law and medical schools.
The senior class promenade and the commence
ment concert of the glee club completed the
programme.
In the large amphitheatre, constructed just
north of Old South Middle. the members of the
class of '0I smoked thein class pipes this after
noon and sang the Yale songs that have come
down through successive college generations. and
listened to the class history. Grafton, poem and
the ivy ode Ranged about the members of the
class on rising tiers the parents and guests Of
the seniors enjoyed the exercises, using every
possible means to remain comfortable in dog
day temperature
Hundreds OF spectators lined the campus TO
catch a glimpse of the senior class parade, as
it formed behind the Cd Regiment Band. at
las o'clock. in front of Connecticut Hall. In
cap and gown the seniors. four abreast marched
around the campus. entering the amphitheatre,
where the audience was already seated.
The class poem by ROLAND Mooney Ed
by Edward Henry Hart, Of Brooklyn, and the
general class history was by Winthrop Lakey
Carter OF West Newton. Mass. Punctuating the
programme we're the historic Yale songs, Here's
to Good Old Yale "Amci." Wake, Freshman
Wake" The Pope" and Bright College
Years"
Failing in behind the band. the members of
OF then marched TO Osborn Hall, where the
class ivy was planted. The ivy ode was by
Liguori Alphonsus Doherty. of Murray. Idaho,
whom the class voted the most brilliant scholar
of 1907
After planting the Ivy the class marched TO
the home of President Hadley in Whitney ave-
nue. where II addressed by President Had
lev for the last time as an undergraduate body
Giving the Yale cheer for Or. Hadley, the class
separated, closing the exercises
The chairman of the class day committee
virtually the president of the class, Will
lam Deluce Barnes jr of Mansfield Mass. The
class numbers 342 members. Among its mem
bers are Mortar Gardner Bulkeley jr.. son of
the senior United States Senator from Connec-
ticut: Howard Bouiton of New York. stroke
oar of the Yale crew; George Brette Glaenzer
Of New York Bayard Gushing Hoppin. OF New
York a member of the university crew; Whit
nev Kernochan OF New York Hugh Smith
Knox of Washington son Of the United States
Senator from Pennsylvania William Francis
Knox of Pittsburg, head coach of the football
team; Amasa Stone Mather, of Cleveland; sam
mel F. y Morse. I'd, Of Newton, Mass, the foot-
hall rantain; Charles oliver. of Pittsburg; How
ard Phipps of New York; Howard L. Roome, OF
Ne,y York on the football team; Donald Mitch
ell Ryerson Of Chicago; Henry Earl Shefneld
of Cleveland Malcolm Douglas sloane OF New
York. Walbridge S Taft, Of New York. son OF
Henry W Taft; Stephen Dow Thaw, of Pitts
burp. Calvin Truesdale, Of New York, son OF
the Lackawanna Railroad president; james
watson Webb of New York son OF Or. w
Seward Webb, and Cortlandt Stuyvesant wheel
er Of Utica.
The class dav exercises OF the seniors Of the
sheffield Scientific School were held this morn
ing I'm the amphtheatre built in Hillhouse ave-
nue. They were similar to those OF the college
lanes G. Duworth. Of Sittsburg, president of
the class. presided and John W. Madden. the
baseball outfielder, chairman OF the class
day committee. The histories were read ny Z.
T Porter of Montclair, John a. Baker OF Phil
odeinhia and Marshall Morse Bartholomew OF
New York The senior class in the Scientific
school contains eos members. After the class
dav exercises the class marched to the homes
OF several Of the faculty and cheered them
The programme of the Yale Law School COM
nencement exercises this year the most
extnnsive and elaborate ever planned. The
sneaker of the day was Philander Z. Knox
United States Senator from PENNSYLVANIA, who
smoke on The Development Of the Federal
Power to Regulate Commerce
The annual alumni dinner which closely fol-
lowed the luncheon with which the commence
nnent exercises were begun was presided over
nv William Larue Munson, OF Wllilamsp"Tt'
penn president OF the alumni association and
brief addresses were made by United states
Senator Frank B. BrandeGee of Connecticut;
Justice Hammersley, of the Supreme Court of
Connecticut an1 Judge George c. Holt OF the.
United States DistriCS Court in New York City.
Following the address OF Senator Knox, the
speak!ng for tho Townsend prize closed the
commencement exercises. The speakers were
George Price Whitman, Atlanta; Albert Clay
ton Moss Lancaster. Penn; John Carroll Slade,
Keoggsvlle. n. Y; Albert Packer Mcklnstry.
Worcester, Mass, and William Herman Gal
blcl. Philadelphia. The graduating class OF
the law school contains eighty y-nve members.
Two OF the three honors awarded TO members
of the Law School graduating class went to Fill
pino students. whom William H. Taft sent TO
Yale when he Governor OF the islands. The
Secretary OF War arrived at Yale 10 attend the
commencement exercises just before the an
nouncement made that they led the class
in scholarship, and he beamed with delight at
hearing the news.
Jose Escaler of Pompanga. p. l.. received the
supreme scholarship honor Of Magma cum
laude" He is a graduate OF Siceo de Manila
in 1905. Mariana Honrade de Joya. OF Bahamas.
p. l., obtained cum laude." He was graduated
from Indiana University last year.
Simple exercises marked the commencement
of the Yale Medical School. whose graduating
class contains twenty-nine members. The an
nuaI address was delivered this afternoon in
College Street Hall by Professor Frederick c.
Shattuck, of the Harvard Medical School. His
subject The Art and Science of Medicine"
The general meeting of the alumni association
was held tonight in the Anderson gymnasium.
There were no formal addresses. the gathering
taking the form OF a smoker The officers are:
President, Or. Ralph McDonnell vice-president.
DIR. f. H Arnold secretary, DIR. f. C. Bishop,
and chairman of the executive committee, DR..
L. NJ Gompers. all Of New Haven.
An attempt was made this year to introduce
the innovation of class reunions for the school
the members of '97 meeting at the Offices of DR..