New-York tribune., 1909-06-29
CLASS DAY AT YALE
STORM An INTERRUPTION
RAT Exercises of Various Schools are
Carried Ont as Planned.

,..v Haven June 2s-An electrical storm with
,o-r4hc doNnpour Of rain and fierce gusts of wind,
.. q, UNEXPECTED accompaniment TO class day at
we1s University to-day. but material damage
,,.es the thousands of guests here for the ex-
rises found the atmospheric freak merry diver
sion. ~
,.ss day ceremonies IN the usual order. In the
o-,, afternoon the academic seniors and their
Ias,ds gathered in an anphitheatre on the college
-aTus When the storm broke hundreds made
t--ied dashes for shelter and for nearly two
.o,,rs knots Of commencement guests found them
s,ves uaarooned in empty dormitories, in doorways
and IN convenient though somewhat exposed shell
ters-
As soon as the clouds broke away the exercises
vs-e resumed in the Hyperion Theatre and were
.srried out as planned The class poem was read
tv Leonard Bacon. of Peacedale r L: the class
ora1ion On Hero Worship" by Maxwell O. Parry.
:. Indianapolis. and Leonard Kennedy delivered
,be class history. The ivy planted was setting
f-o-1 the White House ivy brought by President
taft On his last visit here
The Yale Law School alumni dinner was held in
.hA dining hall and speeches were made for a time
during the crashing Of thunderbolts- Dean Rogers
p-esided and Chief Justice Simeon z. Baldwin, OF
he Connecticut Supreme Court. the first speaker.
unveiled portrait Of Dean William Callahan Rob
inson Of the law department OF the Catholic Uni
versity Of America. former professor Of law in
Yale which is a gift of the alumni TO the school
He was followed by Ex-Governor George P Nc
Lean Of Connecticut. Judge Selden n. Spencer of
s, Louis. Burton Mansfield. Of New Haven: Dean
Kjrch1vey. OF the law department Columbia Uni
rersity and ex-senator Joha C Spooner, all alumni
T H. wiggin and Antonio y. de las Alas repre-
sented the graduating class.
The alumni reelected c Larue Munson, of Will
Transport. Penn. president; Z. D. Whitney. OF New
York and Z. G. Buckland. OF Providence. vice
presidents. and J. w Edgerton, secretary and
treasurer.
T1,a 1.v- ~ct,oor ave~csas u-era hold ar EIandris
Hall Immediately following the dinner The ad-
dress given by ex-senator Spooner-
The medical school exercises in College Street
Hall had for the speaker Professor William Henry
Howell. dean Of Johns Hopkins Medical School,
whose subject Medicine
In the late afternoon the various diversions Of
the reunion classes interrupted by the storm were
resumed. The scientific and academic classes. each
in turn. headed by band marched TO Woodbridge
Han and cheered President Hadley and Secretary
Anson Phelps Stokes
This evening the senior class held its promenade
and german in Woolsey Hall, and the various
classes held class dinners at shore hotels
The exercises on the Sheffield Scientific School
caalpus were held in the morning, when there took
place also meeting Of the executive committee Of
The alumni advisory board in Woodbridge Hall, fol-
lowing which the whole advisory board was in
session A reception at Byers Memorial Hall by
the governing board and the senior class OF the
Sheffield scientific School held late in the
afternoon
The degree Of Doctor of Laws was conferred
upon President A Lawrence Lowell Of Harvard
University al the meeting of the Yale Corporation
in the afternoon President Lowell is obliged 10 re
turn 20 Cambridge for the commencement exercises
at his university Wednesday. so the degree
was conferred to-day
The corporation elected J F. McClelland, no"
professor OF mining at Leland Stanford University
10 be professor OF mining in the Sheffield Scientific
ScnooI and a member Of its governing board He
is 9 graduate OF Columbia. Professor TowIney, OF
the Forest School. transferred TO the new
.Jesup chair of siiviculture; Wilder Tilleston, at
present IN the Harvard Medical School. was elected
assistant professor Of medicine
yale's honor list. including the general scholar
ship averages for members Of the class OF o9, was
announced tonight II Etvss the twenty-six
leading scholars Of the class the following who re-
ceive the rating Of philosophical grafton:
Paul Thompson Arnold. Ridgway. Penn; John
Kingley Biree, Bristol Conn; William Whit
Grand Rapids Mich; Charles SouIter Campbell.
Essex FEELS, y. ]; Daniel Higgins Fenton Holyoke.
Mass, Frederick Lamont Gates, MonIclair, n J.
Charles Nanderveer Graham. Brooklyn Clarence
Hartford. Conn: Jesse Mcmillan Harding Omaha
2alph Tolney Harlow. Southbrdge Mass; VII
son NcC1augi5ry Hume Ahmednagar. indla'
Allen Trafferd Klots. Huntington n J.. 14ehsgil y
MurcIley. Detroit; Ralph Emerson Myers. Bus
kirk Bridge. y. y; Leonard Bacon PARKS.
cieTeland: John Bates Perrin. IndianaPolls; IIol
Frank Jay ScribneT. Wallingford y I E1o"aLd
B4niamin Slider. Doag, Penn; John Minor Stetsof,
New Haven. Yeh-Tsung Tsur, Shanghai emma
RAYMOND LoHrey Walkley, Soutnlngton. C0nil-,
william Raymond BarSs. New germany; -, ~ =
Scotia: Louis Earle Smith, Chambersoufg' Fe'li-