Evening star., 1909-06-30
TAFT IN CAP AND GOWN
Dons Corporation Robes at
Yale Commencement.
MARCHES IN PROCESSION
Admiral Sperry and Secretary Dick
inson Made Doctors of Law.
2s9 CANDIDATES FOR HONORs
President Is Received With Hearty
Welcome-No Change in Arrange
ments at His Request.
MARCHES IN PROCESSION
2e9 CANDIDATES FOR H0N0Rs

NEW HAVEN. Conn, June 30.-Com-
mencement day at Yale University was
especially honored by the presence of
the chief magistrate of the nation, WI
liam H. Taft. IS. who. following pre-
cedent as a fellow, donned the robes a.
corporation member and walked in the
procession of the several hundred Of
ficers of the university and the candi-
dates for degrees
The President arrived in this city at
3:G5 o'clock this morning His special
car was sidetracked in the railroad yard
SO that he might sleep undisturbed un-
til the hour of rising. which was shortly
after s o'clock. Then he was driven
to the home of President Hadley,
companied by Capt. \. w. Butt, his
military aid. and Mr.. Mischler. his as
sistant secretary.
The President came unostcntatouslA.
1t was his desire that his visit he ac-
cepted as a matter of course without
any change in the prescribed arrange
mentS for the commencement exercises.
Receives Quiet Welcome.
Last year President Taft came here as
one of the chief guests of the university
On every hand he was accorded grand
reception. Yale men fairly buhbled over
with enthusiasm at the prospect that
Yale man might sit in the highest office
in the land.
And now that he was here again today
as the President of the nation. Yale
greeted him no less cordially. But there
was the formal dignity which was rec
oGnized as most fitting TO the occasion.
From President Hadley's Office the
President of the United States and the
president of the university walked to
Woodbridge Hall to attend the final cor
poration meeting of the year. Most of
| the business of the commencement period
was transacted by the corporation Mon
day and todays sitting was brief one.
The procession of officers, graduates,
candidates for degrees and invited guests
was formed under the elms on the COL
1 lege campus. The mace was carried by
! Prof. Gustave Schwab, the marshal OF
the day.
| In the long line there were o9a caudi-
dates for degrees. besides the guests upon
whom were TO be conferred the honorary
degrees.
| President Taft walked in line with
President Hadey. followed by Capt. Butt
| and Treasurer Lee McClung Among the
guests were Charles r. Taft and Henry
W. Taft and United States Senator
Chauncay NJ. DepeW. There were also
in line Secretary of War Dickinson, Rear
Admiral Charles S. Sperry Bishop Will
liam Lawrence, Prof William Graham
Summer and others.
In Woolsey Hall, where the exercises
began just before IL o'clock, President
Taft sat on the stage with the corpora
tion members and the guests The death
Of Zach department presented the candi-
dates for degrees and these were con-
ferred by President Hadey.
Candidates for Degrees.
! Then followed the presentation of the
| candidates for the honorary degrees, each
being received with applause. Among
them were the following:
Master of arts-JoEn Pierpont Codring-
ton Foster Yale. prominent in the cam
paign against tuberculosis and member of
| the Yale Medical School faculty; Henry
Edward krehbiel. writer and musical
critic of the New York Tribune.
Doctor of science-Erwin William More
| ly Williams. professor emeritus of chem
| istry at Western Res University.
Eliakim Hastings Moore, Yale. head of
| the department of mathematics at the
| University of Chicago.
Doctor of divinity-Edward Caldwell
Moore. professor of theology at Harvard:
| William Lawrence, Harvard, Bishop OF
the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Doctor of laws-Charles Stillman Srerry,
rear admiral. U.rS. N: Jacob Mctiavock
Dickinson. Secretary of War: William
Graham Summer. professor of political
and social science at Yale, and who re-
tires this year.
Left City Yesterday Afternoon.
Off for commencement day at Yale Uni
versity his alma mater, President Taft
left Washington at 5;33 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon for New Haven, Conn. He Will
attend the commencement exercises at
Yale today and participate in many of the
Festivities that mark the close of the col
lege year.
The President occupied the private car
Olvmpia With him were his military aid.