New-York tribune., 1918-06-19
Only SO Out Of $50 Seniors
Left for Glass Day at Yale
Black Caps and Gowns Led by Detachments in Khaki
and Blue in Procession Watched by Venerable
Graduates Of Other DAYS

class holding it's twenty-ffth wear re-
union.
Although the alumni meeting, the
memorial exercises and class gather
lngs all appealed in personal interest
10 the graduates, the keynote of Yale's
second wartime commencement was
struck IN inc patriotic exercises on the
campus IN the afternoon.
Iradltionally Tuesday afternoon of
Yale commencement week has been the
annual baseball game with Harvard.
teunlon classes. the younger men in
vivid costumes and with bands, have
marched to and from the historic Yale
heid, holding their class dinners in the
evening.
Toni ghs the cmners were held in
dooverized form. The cheering, the
bands and the march to the field we're
missing. Instead solemn procession
of graduates and students, preceded by
detachments from the field artillery
Il. o. T. c. unit Of the university and
from the Yale naval training unit.
wendcd its way from the college cam
pus. with heads barred before the statue
of Nathan Hale, of the class of 1773.
on which was laid large wreath.
Other. wreaths and guards of honor
were left in passing the memorials to
French and Indian wars. the American
Revolution, the War of 1912, the Mexi-
can War, the Civil War and the Span
ish American War.
The patriotic demonstration culmi-
mated in a large assemblage of the
marchers and their friends in the
University Quadrangle, where the new
university service flag was raised with
the Stars and Stripes and patriotic adj
dresses were delivered by Justice John
Proctor. Clarke, of the Appellate Divi-
York, and President Hadley. The new
service flag showed 1929 members of
the university in war service, sixty
eight officers and 1,161 students of the
class of 1918 and later classes, of whom
twelve have lost their lives in service
Members of the classes of 'SS, '93,
! '9S, '03 and 1T marched in the
patriotic procession. Members of more
than thirty classes are back for re-
unions. The oldest of these is the
class of '65, from which about twenty
members were registered at the class
headquarters at the Qunnipiac Club
Among those registered from '65 are:
The Rev. Albert Putnam Chapman,
Bridgeport; Simeon Baldwin Chitter-
don, New York; Henry Park Collin, Cold
Water, Mich; Everett H. Converse, Beth
el, Conn; George S. Dickerman, D. D.,
Waltham, Mass; Edward Dummer, Au-
burndale, Mass; Whitehead c. Duy-
chink, Plainfeld. N. j.; James G.
Gregory, LII. D., Yonkers; Charles
Kinmcrly, New Haven; Charles P.
Leonard, Providence R. l.. the Rev.
Sanford S. Martyr. Plantsvilla, Conn;
Payson Merrill, New York; The Rev.
Henry a; Stimson, D.. D.. Hartford,
YORK; Henry W. Waterman, Holden,
Mass; William Carrie Bassett, North
ampton, Mass.
An impressive feature Of the exer-
cises at the flag pole in the Quad
ranglc was the singing by the whole
assemblage of 40 God. Beneath Thy
Guiding Hand" written by Leonard
Bacon, of the class Of 1920. The mas
sivee, Yale memorial organ in Woolsey
through the open windows as the hum
dreds outside stood on the walks ana
lawns and sang.
The exercises closed with the sing
ing of "rhe Battle Hymn of the Re-
public" by Noah II. Swayne, the gradu-
ates joining in the refrain. Justice
Clarke spoke on "Mother of Men, Old
ale" and reviewed YalefS war record
to date. At one point his reference to
the nations unpreparedness before the
war and to Major General Leonard
Wood, caught the hearts of the crowd
"The nation at large remained tor
pid," said Justice Clarke. ut paid no
heed Of the reiterated warnings Of that
trained and accomplished soldier, Ma
jor General Leonard Wood, whose sup
plications for preparedness, like the
voice OF one crying in the wilderness,
fell upon deaf ears. But in charge OF
this institution was ono endowed with
vision. These scholastic halls were
transformed into a school Of war"
Justice Clarke read Yale's roll of
honor, and declared that the war would
be fought to finish and that we could
not lose. "Thank God that real
American army is at last in France,
and that Yale men arc in it," he said
in conclusion.