The Washington herald., 1916-10-01
YALE WILL PRODUCE
PAGEANT SPECTACLE
Remarkable Ceremony as Climax to
Bi-Centennial.

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vast Yale Bowl at New Haven. Conn.
on Saturday. October q. win be witnessed
In four short hours 9 dramatic spectacle
which has occupied six months In pre-
parstion. In the final throes Of scheme
and execution this lively Connecticut COL
lege town has been stirred into q ferrnent
Of excitement Tagging up the loose ends
and putting the finishing touches 10 a
theatrical production hitherto unpre-
cedented in size and investiture is no
simple task. The costumes for the 5000
performers. representing every category
| OF New Haven society, are nearly COM
pieted. Squads Of carpenters are daily
employed with the more mechanical fea-
lures Of the production, and electricians,
oecoratorb, local merchants and orEsnizs-
tions Of all kinds are adding their bit
Pageant of Town and Gown.
The great Yale pageant is 10 mark the
climax Of the Yale-New Haven Bl-Cen-
tennisl in festive celebration Of the union
| or college and city. All arrangements
have been made by a committee Of Yale
officers and graduates appointed by the
Yale Corporation and by a cooperating
municipal committee appointed by the
mayor Of the city OF New Haven Both
city and university are sharing IN the
financial responsibilities necessary to
such big undertaking and the executive
committees Of both factions are in con-
slant touch and agreement
Performer from All Glasses.
The multitude OF performers taking mart
In the pageant is made up Of volunteers
from the university and city Of New Ha-
ven, and from many cities in Connecticut
and other nearby States. Churches and re-
ligious societies, Eraternal orders, the
Collegiate Alumni, the New Hsvep
schools, the Boy Scouts and Campfire
Girls, military companies OF New York
and Connecticut patriotic orders. the
Equal Franchise League and the Anti
suffrage Societies. the police and fire de-
partnents. Sunshine Societies, labor or
ganizstions and every class and depart
ment In the university have contributed
TO the stUpendoUs total Of actors who
VIII step out upon the green surface
Of the Yale Bowl and live over again the
picturesque and stirring episodes in the
history OF Yale and OF the nation.
The Action of the Pageant.
The action OF the big drama covers
period OF 200 years, since the COM
ing Of Yale College to New Haven
and includes a brief glimpse into the
life Of the Welsh ancestors Of Elihu
Yale. the original founder. The pre-
lude, showing the medieval wedding
procession Of Margaret sp Ienkyn, the
first Of the Yale family. is followed by
scenes Of the founding Of the colony
| Of New Haven with the purchase Of
the land by John Davenport and Theo-
philus Eaton from the QUinnipiac In
oians; the founding Of the college bv
the picturesque ceremony Of the gifts
| Of books by Congregational clergynen
! OF the colony; the removal by force Of
/ the books and the college from say
brook to New Haven. and the first
commencement in New Haven. Fol-
lowing an allegoricaI interIude. rep
resenting the coming OF the arts and
| sciences from the old world to the
new college in America, come the
/ stirring scenes at the time Of the
| Revolution. and those characteristic
! Of the college in the early half Of the
/ last century. Yales influence in the
! life OF the nation stands out in such
episodes as the martyrdom OF Nathan
Hale and that OF Theodore winthrop.
the first Union oficer TO fall in the
, civil war. These in turn are followed
! by scenes OF modern Yale ending with
a drill by the Yale Battalion Of Field
Artillery organized last winter and in
service as q part OF the Federalized
Militia during all OF the past summer.
/ The allegorical finale OF the pageant
shows Yale. after 200 years OF distin-
guished achievement. surrounded by
! the twenty colleges her sons nave
| founded; by her contributions to the
arts and sciences; and by eminent
graduates who have helped to shape
! the history Of the Htion-looking
fearlessly to her future world service.
while the whole multitude, both Of
audience and performers, Join in
singing the Yale psalm.
The week-End Festivities.
Here is a tabulated schedule OF the
three days Yale-New Haven centennial
/ celebration:
Friday afternoon. October 81 at 81
! o'clock, in the Yale Powl, football game,
Yale VS.. Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
Tickets. 50 cents.
! Friday evening. at $50 o'clock, in Wool
sey Hall, masque, Cupid and Psyche"
written by John Jay Chapman. Yale hon
time at the semi-centenary Of the Yslo
served seats. not over $500 in all, 81 and
! 30 cents.
| Saturday morning October 2. at lO:S1
O'Clock, in Woolsey Hall. historical com
memorativs meeting Admission free.
Saturday afternoon, st = o'clock in the
| Yale Bowl. the Yale Fageant Tickets
g All seats reserved
! Saturday evening, municipal band con-
cert, illumination and celebration or the
! New Haven Green.
Sunday morning. October = special
historical addresses is a part OF the sew
! ices in the New Haven churches. An sd-
dress by President Hadley in Wooisey
/ Hall at II O'clock will constitute the reg
1 Ular University SUNDAY service.