The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
Story of Pageant
 Full of Interest

The pageant was a spectacle for
 which a story was written based in the
 main upon Yale College history. Ii
 was divided into four episodes, each
 having several scenes. There was a lprelude, and the interludes were from !allegory, tradition, incidents in un- iuergraduate life, and reproduction of leveHts familiar te Yale men Of this land the generations just passed. l. Each episode was based roon a tchapter of colonial or Yale life writ Eten by distinguished son of the Col flege or a member of it's faculty. In the pageant book issued for the occa-
 sien as a memento of the anniversary tthere was the invitation to the pageant fan verse, by Charlton Miner Lewis In part this invitation said
 I'm glad libation from the brim ming V bowl
 Pour offering rnow of pageantry and
 Bee where. all iris hued in robe and
 Streams to sthe sward an Eleusinian
 ltt throng; And as one mystic maze unfolds an- l other
 x M<lodius numbers name the Mighty Mother
 N C harvest crowned Dometer of the ls soul"
 s 4insel pageant this, a puppet-mo-
 Hon.
 sAye as the.cleansing fires of self-de-
 ifgE4 votion
 Rsconsecrate ourslives to Light and tI Truth"
 The prelude was from the ancient
 chronicles and told, of the meeting of
 Margaret .ApienlxynIand Ellis A. Grif- knth on the occasion of their marriage In 14s5. and the scene showed the pro- tcesaon. to the altar. Margaret f6rought with her,as a part of her dow Try the reversion of the manor of f1as yn Yale, from which her grand I ron, John Yale, took1the family name Ifor the first time. John Yale was Ithe ancestor of ElihusYale whose name ] the college took.
 This scene was put on by the col lege with the panoply of the aseN of lchivalry, the bride and bridegroom
 have large retinues of men-at-arms, fbanner-bearers. heralds. pages, maids and members of religious orders.
 The organizations aiding in the pre- 1 sentation were The School of Medi-
 cine, The College Choir and G1ee Club Saint Mary's (Catholic) Church, The United Church; The Colonial Danes, with the individual assistance of many swomen and men.
 [ X The opening episode was of the CO., 1orta1 period and the first scene show led the arrival of Governor Theophilus Eaton and his party of settlers who founded Quinnipiac Colony now New Haven. The Bowl was the pow-wow ! place Sof the Quinnipiacs, a tribe which l. held the land. and the place was sup posed to be Fresh Meadows, now Nor Fris Cove The figures of Sachem Mo- mauguin, Gov. Eaton, Rev. John Da- venport, and Thomas Stanton were portrayed by citizens of prominence. l As the scene closed the colonists joined Thomas Stanton in a Puritan hymn and then followed the Indians into the Great Forest.
 The second scene was set in the home of Rev. s. Russell in Branford, in Sept, 1701 where a company of 1 ministers from,Other towns met to talk 1 over the plan of collegiate school 1 for the colony. Six of the clergy men brought parcels of books. The Idea for such a school was acceptable, those present believing that Mother Harvard would give her good will and the General Court would present the matter to London with favor. The parcels of books were presented and so the school was begun.
 / The third scene carried the time forward to 1718 and the school having been established at Saybrook had been removed two years before G716). In this scene the students appear in Say brook to remove the books to New Haven. The sheriff and farmers re- isist this and obstruct movement of the tox-carts brought to carry the books. "A bridge across a stream on the road