Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-07-02
TAFT HONORs YALE;
WALKS WITH BOYS

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, June 30.-COm-
mencement day at Yale was especially
honored by the presence of the chief ex-
ecutive of the nation, william Howard
Taft, rs, who following precedent as a
fellow donned the robes as a corpora
ton member and walked in the process
sion of the several hundred officers of the
university and the candidates for de-
grees.
The president arrived at 305 this MORN
ing and his special car was sidetracked
in the railroad yards so that he might
sleep undsturbed until the hour OF
rising.
Then he was driven TO the home of
President Hadley, accompanied by Cap
tain A. w. Butt, his military aide. The
president came unostentatiously, and II
was his desire that his visit be accepted
as a matter of course without any change
in the prescribed arrangements Tor the
commencement exercises.
LONG LINE OF CANDIDATES.
From President Hadley's Office, where
he went later, the president of the Uni
ted States, and the president OF the uni
versity walked to Woodbridge hall to at
tend the final corporation meeting of the
year. Most of the business of the COM
rnencement period. was transacted by the
corporation on Monday, and today's sit
ting was a brief one.
The procession of officers, graduates,
candidates for degrees and invited guests
was formed under the elms on the college
campus The mace was carried by Pro-
fessor Gustave Schwab the marshal o.
the day In the long line there were
299 candidates for degrees, besides the
guests upon whom were to be conferred
the honorary degrees. -
TAFT GUESr OF HONOR
President Taft walked in line with
President Hadley, followed by Captain
Butt and Treasurer Lee McClung
among the guests were Chas. p. Taft
ana 1enry w. Taft and U. S. Senator
Chauncey M. DePew, Secretary of War
Dickinson, Rear Admiral Chas. S. Sper-
~, Bishop VIM. Lawrence, Prof. VIM
Graham Summer and others were in
line
President Taft sat on the stage in
Woolsey Hall, with the corporation
members and the guests. The dean OF
each department presented candidates
for degrees, which were conferred by
President Hadley. Then followed the
presentation of the candidates for the
honorary degrees, among whom were:
Master of Arts John Pierpont Cod
rington. of Yale; prominent in the cam
paign against tuberculosis ana mem
Der of the Yale Medical school faculty.;
l1enry Edward Krehbiel, editor and
musical critic New York Tribune.
During the presentation of the diplomas
to the candidates there was applause
when we'll known men mounted the plat
torn, but the most pronounced handicap
ping was when Antonio N. Las Alas, OF
Taal, Philippine Islands, received his
master of arts degree.
President Hadley announced the con-
ferring of a degree upon President Low
ell, of Harvard, saying that the newly
chosen head of a sister university was a
great scholar, a great man and one with
whom the American universities could
work in the cause of higher education.
The Woolsey hall exercises ended, the
corporation and guests went to Wood
bridge hall. Later President Taft went in
an automobile to the home of President
Hadley.
In the early afternoon both returned to
the memorial hall, where the annual ban
quet of the alumni was held.