The sun., 1909-06-30
NO DAMPER ON YALE'S JOY
ALUMNI BY THOUSANDS MAKE
THE OLD TOWN JOLLY.
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, the Athletic Field. where Yale's Sue
cess Over Harvard at Baseball Fills
Their Cup OF Pleasure TO OyerfiOwing.

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New HAVEN. June 20. When Phllbin Of
Yale walloped out a two bagger between
centre and right fields in the fifth inning
OF the baseball game between Harvard
and Yale this afternoon and brought in
two runs, one of the half dozen brass
bands on the field blared out: "There'l Il
bs hot time in the old town tonight"
That ID precisely what there is in New
Haven tonight. Every kind Of Yale Joy,
and no one knows their oatalogued limit,
10 being released. The boys, young and
old, are oven taking joy rides all about
the place. Any old kind OF a ride. even
IL II Is in a street car or in wheelbarrow.
is joy ride for these Yale alumni
So up and down the streets the throng
Is surging, fantastically dressed grads are
prancing about like bucking ponies and
cutting up monkeyshinee and there Is
nothing but joyous. joyerous. joyestous
JOY In the land.
The final score was Yale. 4; Harvard. 0.
This was alumni day-and 1t IS also alumni
night, which means quite as much as
alumni day-and need anything more De
said2
The thrill that the North felt when
Vicksburg fell. that which Great Britain
experienced when Ladysmith was saved.
and the one which Japan rejoiced over
when Port Arthur was taken. could not
have been more exultant than the one
which has sent all that part of New Haven
known as Yale into raptures tonight.
The old grads on the way to their
class dinners are marching through the
streets, madly cheering. shouting songs
and capering about. The psrades are
comparable only to those at national
political convention. with a Wild West
show thrown in for good measure. Thus
does q university education justify it's
existence and spread good cheer and
happiness. even in the portal Of its temple.
All the signs and omens were on
Yale's side to-day and what dark por-
tents there were were on Harvard's side!
A wonderfully bright day and dry atmos-
phere prevailed. The breezes were cool
and gentle and over New Haven there
arched a beautiful Yale blue sky with
not cloud in it all day long to cast the
semblance OF shadow on the good luck
which nature wished for Yale. Why
Yale simply had to win.
Alumni day began rather sedately.
At 10 o'clock in the morning the grads
to the number Of 1000 or more packed
Alumni Hall to the doors for the annual
meeting. Clifford Pinchot. SO, head of he
United States Bureau of Forestry, pre-
sided, and told the alumni that Yale
really was the national university OF this
country. because it sums up all that is
best in the national spirit. No other
university. he said, is so intertwined in
the affections OF the people. He added:
@We are coming to understand that
preparation for life is what we are study
ing at New Haven and that citizenship In
higher than scholarship. Every public
man must hunger and thirst for a uni
verslty which gives it's students the spirit
which Yale gives"
There was tremendous whoop right
there. and then it was that the celebra-
ton Of alumni day began to be joyous.
That meeting was turned into Yale
jubilation meeting. The alumni whooped
II up at every opportunity and when
President Hadley was introduced the
reception he got might have come from
a lot OF youngsters. He gave some
extracts from his annual report and
then digressed to illustrate the Yale |
spirit when he spoke OF the appointment !
Of l.. P. Breckenridge OF Illinois to a
chair in the Sheffield school. Prof !,
Breckenridge gave up salary OF 5000 |
to accept one Of $4,000 at Yale and would |
not be dissuaded by an offer OF 81. 900 and |
then Of $4,000 to remain where he was. !
Maybe the old grads didn't whoop 'er up |
at that and shout WOW, WOW. brindle !
bulldog style. il you please.
Then Dr. Hadley mentioned the names !
Of four professors who are to retire on |
the age limit tomorrow. Richards, |
Perrin, Billy Sumner and Dean Wright, |
Thunderous applause, which prompted !
the speaker to remark that one had to |
60 back to Saxon mythology to Thor, the |
god OF thunder. to realize what kind of |
man Billy Sumner is.
DR.. Hadley euloglzed all the retiring
professors warmly, especially Dean
Wright, whose name again woke tho
echoes, At the conclusion Of the presi- |
dents address Chairman Pinchot an
nounoed that Cornelius Vanderbilt, '95,
had offered $4,000 as the nucleus OF a
fund to be raised as a memorial for Dean
Wright. That raised another WOW, WOW,
beat brindle dog style and Prof. Perrin
jumped up and moved that a committee
be named to make a collection for the
fund. No stopping that motion. The
chair appointed this committee Henry
7. Rogers. 80. Denver; Charles W. Bng-
ham, '6s. Cleveland; David Daggett, 70,
New Haven; Louis c. Hay. 81, New York
city; William Kent. 81. Chicago; Wallace
d. Simmons. co. st. Louis; Noah Swayne,
'os. Philadelphia; Thomas Arbuthnet. "a,
Pittsburg; Cornelius Vanderbilt. 's5. New
York city.
1t is the custom at these Yale alumni
to have fifty year, a twenty five
year and a three-year-old graduate to
glorify Yale and extol her virtues. Prof.
John H. Hewitt. 50, spoke for the old
boys. II Yale can be said to have any
such. He told OF the old days when the
list OF professors numbered only thirty,
but he said the Yale spirit existed then.
He was glad 10 find the Sheffield men and
the academic men meeting for the first
time on the same platform. He said that
President Hadley was born while SO
was In college, and the class to-day on the
tenth anniversary OF his nau uguration
was glad 10 give him its benedctlon.
The Rev. Edward Chapman. "a, Of
lynn, spoke for the middle aged crowd. (
He spoke of the now academic dean,
Prof Jones, whose name brought an out I