The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-11
l492 GLASS DINNER Usual Gay Time Planned for Stray Graduates at Com
 mencement.
]. H. CLARK TO PRESIDE
Official Notice for This Popular and Important Event Is
 Out.

The graduates commencement din- her. popularly known as the dinner of the historic Glass of 1492," will | be held this year on the evening pre- cedlng commencement in the Univers- dty dining hall at 7:15 D. m.
 This dinner originated with a few Graduates in New York who are &C., customed to come up to commence ment almost every year and who rec ognized that on the Tuesday of com mencement week no provision Is made by the university for any functions whatever as the evening has been set apart by custom for the class re- unions Graduates therefore who happen to be In the city and who do not have reunions are left without Entertainment and the dinner has be- come so popular--this being the fourth one to be giyen--that It has really become a university function, Although conducted entirely by grad uates.
 The evening is devoted entirely to song and to a good dinner and there are no formal speeches or toasts up on the program. The dinner Is open to any graduate or friend of the uni versity who may wish to purchase ticket and the object is to bring to- gether men from different classes who might not otherwise meet in New Haven.
 The University Glee club will be pres ent and the Second Regiment orches- tra will furnish music. Charles Hop- kins Clark of the Hartford Courant, has been asked to preside and Nod Osborn, 80, will be present to see thas his friend Clark does 1t properly. Those who have attended former din- ners will remember with pleasure the various stunts performed by clever graduates who renew their youth on this occasion.
 Through a misunderstanding the circular announcing this dinner stated that those who purchased dinner ticket could obtain also a reserved seat for the Harvard game upon covered stand. The seats which the baseball management has reserved for the committee are, however, not up- on the covered stand. but are upon the new stand back of third base where the several reunion classes sit. The mistake has been rectifed in an- nouncements in the Alumni Week. ly" and circular has been sent to every applicant for baseball seats in- forming him of the true state of the case
 Last year the committee were con- siderably embarrassed by late appli- cation for tickets. On the morning of the dinner. less than half the num- Der of tickets taken at the door that evening. had been applied for and those who are familiar with the con- ducting of good dinner will recog- nize the almost impossible situation. The committee therefore this year re- quest that application be made early and the dinner tickets may be re- deemed if presented to the committee or the Alumni Weekly" office by 5 o'clock, June 20. The applications this year have been much more num- erous than last and as the number is limited to three hundred and fifty, 1t Is probable that the dinner tickets will all be sold before the goth.
 The dinner will be given in the uni veraity dining hall, the west end of the hall being partitioned off for the pur- pose and the committee assures every intending purchaser that although the price has been placed lower this year than last, the dinner itself will be bet ter and better served.
 The graduates committee for the dinner consist of such well known graduates as Walter Camp, Lewis S. Welch, David Daggett Frank L. Bigelow and George S. Fowler. Mir Daggett is chairman and MT. Fowler of the Alumni Weekly Is treasurer and communications or applications to either one of these gentlemen will re- | ror,arat nd ca q ra fiil q atteiltinl,