New-York tribune., 1918-06-19
Especial Dispatch to The T,lbune)

Especial Dispatch to The T'fbume)
NEW HAVEN, June 1S.-A little
company of young men wearing SOM
bre black caps and gowns and led by
a smaller squad in khaki and sailor
blue marched through the Yale campus
quietly to-day. There was no blare of
trumpets or sound OF drums. Just the
rhythmic tread Of marching men.
There were barely fifty of them left Of
class of nearly $780, the rest being in
the active service of their country.
They took their places beneath the
elms in front Of stately Vanderbilt
Hall. Their mothers and sweethearts
were there, some of them hoping in
their hearts that their boys would not
be taken, but ali of them ready to
meet the sacrifice bravely should these
remaining few youngsters of the grad
uatlng class of rs be called to Join
their classmates.
cut Hall with its surrounding memo
rias decorated with dark green
wreaths which had been placed upon
them by the soldiers and sailors of
Yale earlier in the day the members
of the senior class held their class
day exercises and bade their last init
mate goodby to old Eli. Tomorrow
they Will receive their diplomas at the
more formal exercises in Woolsey Hall.
War Cloud Over All
The class day exercises closed an
eventful second day of the Yale com
mencement-a day filled with the ac-
tlvlties of commencement assemblages
and graduate runion, but eventful and
ln0foGSlOp of
serious tones which pervaded ali the
various affairs. The war cloud hung
over the university, but the same old
spirit of Yale, less demonstrative and
more subdued, but just as virile and
strong. went out to join the spirit of
France and encourage the thousands of
sons of Old Eli who are in the trenches
"over there"
To-day was the big day for the re-
. were materially increased last night
and this morning. Most of them got
around early at the polls at Wood
bridge Hall to vote for Vance Nc
Cormick, '93 S. as member of the
Yale corporation. The former foot
ball star was named to succeed him
self IN the only vacancy occurring this
year.
Then the grads" rounded up at the
meeting of the alumni in Sprague
Memorial Hall, which was addressed
Dy PRESIDENT Hadley and representa-
| tive Yale graduates.
Last commencement was from be-
ginning to end war commencement" ="
DR.. Hadley told them. "But every
word an6 every thought was one Of
preparation for what was before US.
To-day we have to speak, not of prepa-
ration, but of accomplishment. A year
ago. the campus was full of students in
uniform, getting ready to 20 into actual
service. To-day it is empty, for the
ssndents s3, have gone. A year ago we
co, at home or abroad, in their coun
try's service. To-day they are doing
these things. in France or in England
IN Washington or in New Haven. a
year ago we spoke of the expected
dehclt and the possibilities of meetinr
1t. To-day, thanks to the alumni fund
the deficit for the current wear is met
and Yale's first battle of the war is
won"
Memorial Service
Many of the graduates of more re-
cent years, who had come in contact
with former Dean Henry Parks WRIGHT
gathered. in Battell Chapel, where in
their college days they had been mind
Aui ol CiaSS monitors with their tally
sheets and searching eyes, to attend
the memorial services for the late
dean. President Hadley spoke on Dean
Wright's Contribution to the Univer-
sity," and other members of the faculty
paid high tribute to the former dean
as q teacher, classmate and friend of
Yale men.
The speakers at the earlier alumni
meeting included the Rev. DR.. Charles
r. Carter, '78. who presided; Colonel
Ralph D. Paine, '94, who has lust re-
turned from abroad Judge John B.
Woodward, '83, of W;lkes-Barre, Penn:
Schuyler Merritt, '7S, of Stamford.
Conn, successor in Congress to the
late Representative Ebenezer J. Hill,
go; Joseph W. Alsop, '98 s., of the
Connecticut State Council of Defence,
and Charles ]. Fay, '93, of the academic