New Britain herald., 1916-10-21
YALE AND NEW HAVEN ClASPHANDST0
 CELEBRATE UNION OF TWO CENTURIES

ernor's Foot Guards is shown on the
 village green, its captain, Benedict
 Arnold, demanding the keys of the powder house from the selectman. This scene was a familiar one to New Haven people as it is re-enacted
 in part each May when the company holds its annual field day. The scene
 was put on much more elaborately and with many more actors.
 Invasion of New Haven.
 The second scene was that of the invasion of New Haven by the Brit ish in 1779. Former Governor Bald
 win wrote the chapter for this scene. It's chief action was that in which
 Prof. Daggett of Yale took part. The professor had urged defence of New Haven but the volunteers were few. Daggett himself had used gun and is captured by the British commander. Afterwards his pleas saved the town from being burned,
 Gen. Garth, the commander saying it was too beautiful a town to burn
 Hanging of Nathan Hale.
 me third scene was the haneinr 'i Ndlnah Hale, and the fourth. the
 slSl' or Gen. George Washin gton to !>eW HaVen. The character of Wash
 l1'gton was taken by Dean Jones of the college This closed the enisode of the period.
 The organizations undertaking the scenes were:
 The class of 1917; Second Comnanv Governors Foot Guards; details from "llltla companies; the Sons of Veter- ans; the Daughters of the American Revolution of New Haven, Waterbury, Merluen, AnsOnia, Derby and Sev- Hlour; the Young Women's Christian assoclatlon; the New Haven Cale- dOniar club.
 The third episode was of the early hlietechth century. and the chapter
 was written around college incidents or lS41, 1854 and 1858. The first scene reproduced the famous town ana gown riots, for many times the students clashed with the townspoc- Die often with bloodshed. As. por- trayed, the chief scene was that of q; TootDall game between soDhomOres and freshmen on a corner of the vil-
 lage green. While it is at it's hei,,. f hremen from the town in their red shirts, and with hose, try to break uo the game. free-fOr-all fight fol- lows. This was realistically carried out.
 The second scene was a revival of the college custom konwn as ''The
 Burial of Euclid" It was a yearly
 event from 1845 to 1860
 The third scene Illustrated the re- crultlng of company of colonists C. go to Kansas to settle the land. This was in 1856 and Henry Ward Beecher addressed the meeting which raised $1,00O and Professor Silliman of Yale and others pledged fifty rifles Scene four was that of the death of Theodore Winthrop, the first Union officer to die in the Civil war and who had been graduated from Yale ten wears before. His body lies in Grove street cemetery here. The organizations in the third cpl sode were: The classes of 1918, 1919 , mad 1918 S; the Graduate school; the school of Fine Arts; the Law school; the Yale Southern club; Company L. 1 Seventh regiment, New York; Grand 1 Army veterans: New Haven police de- 1 partment; New Haven fire depart
 ment; Savin Rock hose company; 1 the Grand Avenue church.; the
 Church zof the Redeei14er,s afl indi-
 vidual assignments.
 . The second inter]ude was an ale l gorv of War and Peace, written by Francis Hartman Marloe, the pa geant master. Tn it took part many
 military bodies, women's organza l tions and social and fraternal 'r- cieties, the number Of performers be- 1 ing very large.
 The third interlude told the story l of the Wooden Spoon Prom, which is l still a vivid memory to the older
 alumni. This was carried out by Pro-
 fesor Jack Crawrord and Miss Rebec- 1 ca D. Gibbons.
 The fourth episode was made up ot panels, fourteen ir number. The ob- i iect was to show the widely divergent | points of views of Yale activity smct
 the Civil war.
 The first panel showed the late 1 Prof. o. c. Marsh on his trips of ex l plorations to the plains of the Wes l and discovery of fossil remains O. l prehistoric animals, numbers of which 1 lave recently been articulated and SC
 Up in Peabody Museum at Yale ant