The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-16
Yale Announces
 Alumni Day Plans
Eighteenth Annual Event Scheduled for Feb g With
 Preceding Events Feb Fl and P

New Haven, Conn.,, Feb. 16.- Complete plans for Yale's eighteenth annual Alumni University Day, to be held Monday. February 23, were announced to-day. Although the for mai Alumni Day events will take place on that day, the fact that it comes as part of a holiday weekend has been taken into consideration, and events have been arranged for the preceding Saturday and Sunday. The program for Saturday consists chiefly of athletic contests. There will be university hockey game with Princeton, and university basketball game with Dartmouth. There will also be a university swim ming meet and water polo game with Columbia, as we'll as a freshman and junior university hockey game with Princeton
 Sundays program will open at II a. m., with the university public worship in Battell chapel, at which the Rev. pr. Henry Sloan, Coffin, president of the Union Theological seminary, New York city, will preach Horatio Uarker's anthem, ''To Whom Then Will Ye ,Liken God'' will be sung by the university choir. At 4:15 D. m. the New Haven sym phony orchestra. conducted by Dean David Stanley Smith of the Yale School of Music. will give a concert in Woolsey han Georges Barrere, the futist,. will be the assisting artist.
 : During the afternoon the Peabody museum, the gallery of fine arts and the Steinerts collection of musical in- struments in Memorial hall will be open. The alumni will be welcome H,4 NF %hA f,,ot ties in Yale college and the societies of the Sheffield Scientific school, which will be open from 8 to 10 p. m.
 On Monday, several special exhi- bitions will be held in the Sterling memorial library in honor of the alumni. These include collection of Spanish coins representing all per- iods of Spanish history from the Caliphs of Cordova to the present day, recently presented to the uni versity library by the Rev. William H. Owen, '97, of New York city. Manuscripts and papers of Ezra Stiles. president of Yale college, Mrs. Edward $. Hardness of New York city, will also be exhibited for the first time. The other special ex- hibitions will consist of the poetical works of Yale graduates, selected largely from the recent gift of the late Samuel R. Betts, '75, of New York city; and a collection of books on hunting, fishing, exploration, and natural history. from the collection made by the late Charles Sheldon. go, and presented to the university library by Francis P. Garvan, '97, of New York city.
 The formal progra m for the day is intended to inform the graduates of current developments in university affairs. There will be morning meeting in Sprague Memorial hall. at which President James Rowland Angell will discuss the important de- velopments of the last year, and present conditions at the university. Professor Robert Dudley French will talk on Yale's quadrangle plan. Provost Seymour will preside.
 Professor William Lyon Phelps and Lewis A. Lapham of San Fran cisco, class day orator for the class of 1881, will be the speakers at a luncheon to be held in the university dining hall.
 From to 10:30 o'clock in the morning, the graduates will visit the classrooms and laboratories of the university. Many will have the op- portunity to sit in classes being taught by the same teachers un- der whom they studied while at Yale. At 1O:30 the alumni are invited to the daily chapel service in Battell chapel. which will be conducted by Dean Luther A. Weigle of the Yale Divinity school.
 Students in the department of drama of the School of the Fine Arts will give a5 special performance for the alumni in the University thea