The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-24
YALE MEN
 RETURNING Glass, Bissell and Gordon Brown Represent the Glories of Athletic
 Field. SECRETARY TAFT
 ARRIVES TO-DAY Members of Class of 1857 Back to Celebrate Their Semi Gen.
 tennial.

In automobiles, teams and yachts all day yesterday and last night graduates returned to attend their class reunions. Around the city the headquarters of the classes were opened and men who had not seen their classmates since commencement years ago greeted each other with all the fervor of undergrad uate days
 E. T. Glass '04S and l.. F. Bissell, his old war companion as guard on the championship football team, arrived yesterday and shook hands affection ately. Gordon Brown, football captain of 1901 is here. These are the principal athletic lights, but more are expected to-day.
 William Howard Taft, secretary of war, will arrive here this morning. He stayed last night in New York with his brother, Henry W. Taft. He will attend the corporation meeting to-day and after that stay to the commencement exercises. He will return to Washing ton Thursday.
 One of the principal events of the week will be the third annual gradu- ates dinner to be held at the Univer- sity dining hall Tuesday night. All graduates not having regular reunions will attend this banquet of the class of 1492 Colonel N G. Osborn will act as toastmaster and there will be speakers of national reputation.
 Estimates Of the alumni who arrived here yesterday, placed the number at about 1,200 If their families are in- cluded the number of commencement guests is easily brought up beyond twice that number. This is more than half the total number of surviving graduates of the classes from '52 to 1904, who are here, and the class sec retaries will show more than 1,5OO.
 The reunion of the earliest class pres- ent will be that of the members of '52, although classes as AZ will be repre- sented at the commencement process sion on Wednesday morning. The head quarters of the class of 52 will be at the home of the Rev. Alonzo N. Lewis of Westyille, who stated last night that of the twenty eight members still living about dozen are coming back. They vii have quiot banquet at Mr Lewis's Tuesday evening and will at tend the graduating exercises Wednes- day.
 Some of the men who will celebrate the 50th anniversary of their gradua- ton arrived yesterday and registered. They are: Edfard l.. Duer MD, of Philadelphia; Stephen o. Sloar, M.D., of McClellanville, s. C.; George B. Thomas of Westchester, Pa, and At torney John J. Bradish of Providence. Professor Arthur M Wheeler, the great Napoleonic authority, and Prof. Rob- ert Brown, who has been connected with the Yale observatory for many years, afe local members of the class. Twenty of the fifty-one still living are expected back Tuesday in time for the Yale-Harvard baseball game, which they will attend in a body. President Hadley's reception room in Memorial hall will be the headquarters of the class. They will dine there Tuesday night, and Tuesday noon will lunch with Professor Brown sIE@
 A banner record wlu be made by the class of '67 for the seventy -one mem bers fifty-two having promised to come back. The banquet will be held in Hendrie hall, and Charles II. Good speed of St. Louis will preside. The Lawn club will be the scene of the festivities of the class of '72, who will rGturn fifty strong.
 The Edwards house on Elm street has been put In gala array for the re- turning members of the class of TT. The class will lunch at the Country club and after the baseball game on Tuesday will march to the home of President Hadley, The banquet will be held at Hendrie hall Tuesday even- ing.
 'S2 is back for It's twenty-ffth anni- versary, always one of the biggest events of graduate life. The Thacher house at 255 Crown street, will be used as a club house and the Hutchinson as a domitory.
 The class of 'S7 will be back with ninety members. Several of them ar rived yesterday and had an informal reunion at Professor Phelps rooms in Connecticut hall. In the evening they sat on the lawn in front of the build- ing and when It got chilly they gather ed around the professors fireplace and talked over undergraduate days. Among those there last night were President George E. Hln of the Bridge port police commission who Is secre- tary of the class of 91.
 Ninety-two Is here for its celebration with all the glory of fifteen years fight with the outer world. The members seem to have stood it pretty we'll There are 125 out of the 155 here, quartered on York street, and yesterday took special car and went to the Momauguln for a shore dinner After the game the class banquet will be held in the Anderson gymnasium.
 To-day the class of '97 will play baseball game with the class of 1901 at Yale field. There are 150 members of '9I here, and an equal number of the class of 1901. The latter will probably win, however, being attired in police costume. They will march to the field this morning, headed by Gordon Brown.
 The class of 1904 will turn out the biggest crowd and all day yesterday members of this class were arriving. Shelf. men are here and the classes from 1872 to 1904 wifi have reunions, costumes and general good times.
 The general annual meeting of the law school will take place this after neon in Hendrie hall Charles Lerue