The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-18
What Returning Alumni Will Do During Their Commence ment Stay in New
 Haven.
ATTENDANCE RECORD TO GO
Old Yale Men Will Be More Numer. ous Than Usual-Twenty-twO Glasses to Celebrate
 This Year.

Twenty-two classes, including two Law school classes. will hold formal reunions In New Haven over the com ing commencement. In addition to the regular periodic reunions thero will be q number of informal gather ings of classes which do not have this year formal reunion. The gradu- ates dinner on Tuesday night will give these classes an opportunity to gather in something like a class dinner in non-reunion year. Advance returns to those in charge of the various class gatherings indicate somewhat larger than average attendance of alumni this year. In ono or two cases reunion seem likely to be broken. Tho plans for the regular reunions so far as they have been arranged before- hand are as follows:
 '53.
 The class of 1853 will gather at commencement this year for the fifty fifth anniversary of It's graduation from college. Members of the cless who cannot on account of feeble health or long distance from New Haven. attend the reunion are request ed by James M. Whiton, class secre- tary. to send letter "evincing that their heart Is in the old place and telling how they fare"
 '56.
 The class of 1858 will gather for It's semi-centennial reunion at com- mencement this year, the arrange ments for the reunion being in the hands of Col William P. Bacon, the class secretary. On Tuesday, June 23, the, class will take luncheon together In the 1910 room of Dwight hall. The luncheon will be followed by the class business meeting in the same room.. and the dinner will be held TuesdaS evening in the presidents receptil room. which is reserved at commepee- ment for that class which Is celeBrat- ing It's semi i-centennial reunion. A number of rooms in Divinity hall have been reserved for dormitory accom- modation.
 | '63,
 The following arrangements have boen made for the forty-fve year re- union of the class of 1868: there will be business meeting at noon on Tuesday, June 23, at place to be announced by posters about tho campus, and the class dinner will be held Tuesday evening at Wrexham hall. 200 York street. Arrangements for the members of the class to sit together at the Yale Harvard base ball game have been made by Samuel Huntington. secretary.
 '6S.
 The class of 1868 will hold it's forty year reunion in New Haven at the coming commencement. The class headquarters will be 156 Elm street. A business meeting of the class will be held in Il Phelps hall, at 11:30 o'clock Tuesday morning, June 23. and will be followed by reception at the home of Professor and Mrs. F. B. Dexter, IFS Prospect street. The class dinner will be held Tuesday eve- ming at The Shoreham, Morris Cove. The committee in charge of the re- union consists of J. Leonard Varick, chairman; Professor Henry S. Wll- Hams, and Dean Henry P. Wright.
 '08 S.
 There will be no formal reunion of the class of 1868 s. this June. Only seventeen members of the class are living and these are widely scattered in residence. Those of the class who attend commencement will meet with the class secretary, Eugene s. Bristol of 119 Whitney avenue, New Haven, Conn.,. and some informal meeting will be arranged.
 '78.
 Fifty members of tho class of 1873 have signifed their intention of re- turning to New Haven for the thirty five year reunion of the class. The business meeting will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday, June 2s, in B1 Os- born hall and the class dinner will be held at the University club, after the
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