The sun., 1916-09-09
YALE UNIVERSITY.

New HAVEN. Conn. Sept. s.-Plans
for the Yale pageant. concentrating
the removal OF the college from Saybrook
to New Haven. exactly two hundred
years ago. show the celebration to be the
largest in number Of actors ever
gathered in the history Of the drama. IL
any play or pageant. Six thousand
actors will be on the stage at the same
time.
The pageant has been scheduled for
Saturday. October 81. two centuries TO
a day from the time that the little
group Of divines who formed the Yale
faculty. examining Greek and Latin
roots into a dozen youthful heads. de-
cided that they could make a better job
OF II in New Haven thar they had made
in Saybrook. They decided to move to
New Haven and In commemoration OF
the removal the pageant will be given
1t was an event that affected both Yale
and New Haven the most profoundly In
character. ideals and progress Of any.
thing in the entire history Of both the
city and the college.
Plans for the pageant show that II
will depict several historical scenes con
nected with Yale University, but mas
much as Yale's history is New Haven's.
the scenes will be of historical incidents
Of town and gown"
The great drama will start with
prelude showing the wedding procession
of Margaret. grandmother of John Yale
who received her dowry. the reversion Of
Pals yn Yale. From this inheritance
two centuries later the descendant. Elihu
Yale. made the name forever famou.
by bestowing it oil a small collegiate
school, in Connecticut.
This mediRval sce2e will be changed
quickly to one two centuries later. show
ing the Quinnipiac Indians hunting deer
The arrival Of John Davenport. whose
little band OF c%olonists settled New
Haven ana VINO Oartered with QuinnipiAa
for tho Indians land. interrupted theiI
hunt.
Mex Is the tableau OF the group o,
divines bringing offerings OF books &c
found n college: then the coming OF
Gov. Elihu Yale with gifts OF money
and East India merchandise. n finally
the moving Of the little college from Say
brook to New Haven.
Then will come a series OF historical
scenes. including the Governors FOO
guard. under Benedict Arnold. demand
ing the key to the powder house in li75;
the invasion Of Now Haven by British
troops in 1879: the martyrdom OF
Nathan Hale the visit Of Gen. George
Washington to New Haven. all grouped
under tableaux OF the revolutionar,
period.
College life between the revolution ant
the civil war will be depicted by an ole
fashioned football game. interrupted D,
firemen laying a hose across the ground
after which a free for all fight between
students and town boys will follow
Receipt OF the news OF the admission
of Kansas as a slave State. the rapit
recruiting OF student volunteers. tn
funeral Of Theodore Winthrop. the frs
man TO fall on the Union side, are SOM
OF the Incidents OF the civil war period.
Stationary actors forming fr!ezes por
traying college life since the civil wa
will compose panels. as the events seen
unsuited for p~ageantry. M pagan
will close with an exhibition drill Of tn
new Yale battalion.
Through the historical scenes allegorie
will portray symbolically what Yal
has stood for. what II now lands for
and what II will stand for to the State
to the nation and to the world.
The first Of these allegories will shoy
the passing Of the arts and science
from the Old World to the New. Int
the empty Yale Bowl. where the pagan
will be given. will pour down from
various upper entrances streams o
children in blue. green and silver. fllin
the bowl, while through them will pas
allegorical groups to lay their gi..s be
fore the infant child Yale.
The second interlude will be an al
legory Of tho sacrifice Of war and tn
greater blessings Of peace.
Last will come tho great finale. IN
retrospect Of all that has gone befor
and the showing forth Of what Yale 1
giving the world at present. Yale. th
central figure. surrounded by the min
departments OF the university. will com
In drawn by white oxen with silve
chains and accompanied by her mos
famous graduates with their inventions
discoveries and works that have bee
given to science and art. In the dis
lance will be seen the roups that hav
made Yale's history and. at tho Close
Yale VIII be seen looking fearlessly I
her future world OF service while Al
audience and performers join in singin
the Yale song.
The committee from the university an
a citizens committee are already organic
ing forces and the plans for the big even
are we'll under way. All New Haven
| private and public organizations III b
4 represented IN the spectacle. Churches
schools, clubs. military organization.
Chamber of Commerce and all will tax
port