The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-02
Yale Announces Its
 23Oth Commencement
Saturday June l3, Terminating June l7 Plans for Years Festivities Are Scheduled to Open

poet; Charles Payne, of New York I city, class Historian; John l.. Caskey, of Wellesley Hills, Mass, Ivy Oroa- tor, and Lewis A. Lapham, of San Francisco, class orator.
 The events scheduled for Monday. in addition to many reunion gather- | ings and informal class events, corn- | prise a meeting of the Alumni Board | in the morning, followed by the joint luncheon of the Yale corporation and the Alumni board; the annual lunch ton of the Yale Law school Alumni association; and the annual meeting and luncheon of the Association of Yale Alumni in Medicine, to be held in the Sterling Hall of Medicine at 12:30. President and Mrs James 1 Rowland Angel will receive mem- | bers of the graduating classes and l their famalies and the visiting alum l nj in the Yale Gallery of Fine Arts
 at 5:30 p. m. o Judge Thomas w. Swan, Yale '00 | will preside at the annual luncheon of the Yale Law School Alumni as- | sociation. The speakers wil be i Judge Learned Hand, Judge Ernest l A. Inglis, Yale LIB. 1911, Dean l Charles E. Clark, of the Yale Law school, and Thomas I. Emerson,
 chairman of the Yale Law Journal.
 Judge Inglis will be introduced by his classmate, Francis A. Pallotti, of | Hartford, Conn.
 At the close of this meeting, at 3 D, m., will occur the presentation of the portrait of Chief Justice Oli- yer Ellsworth, Yale LID. 1790, pro- vided by the bequest of the late Chester W. Lyman, Yale 18S2- paint ed by Professor Edwin c. Taylor of | the Yale School of Fine Arts. Thom- as D. Thacher, Yale 1904, solicitor general of the United States, will de-
 liver the address.
 The graduating exercises of Yale college and the Sheffield Scientific school are the most important | events on Tuesdays program. Polls will be open throughout Tuesday morning for the election of two alum nj fellows of the Yale corporation to | fill the vacancies which will be ere ated in June by the expiration of the term of Clarence Blakeslee, Ph. B. 1885. of New Haven. Conn.,, and the resignation of John Villiers Far | well, B. A. 1879, of Chicago. The l candidates are Wallace Charles Win- | ter Ph. B. 1893 S., of Chicago; John
 Irving Downey, Ph. B. 1897 s, of | New York city, ThomaS Day Inacn- CT, B. A. 1904, of Washington, D. C.;
 Livingston Platt, B. A. 1907, of
 Rye, N. Y.; James Dwight Dana, B.
 A. 1911, of New Haven. Conn.,; and
 Frederick Trubee Davidson, E. A. 1918, of Washington, D. c. Reun- ion classes will parade in costume to Yale field for the annual Harvard | Yale baseball game in the afternoon. l At the commencement exercises on | Wednesday morning, June 17th, in Woolsey Hall at 10:30 a. m.. candi- dates for degrees will be presented | by the Deans of their respective schools. The degrees will be con-
 ferred by President Angell. Pro- lessor William Lyon Phelps, Public | Orotor, will present those who will receive honorary degrees. The Alum nj luncheon will take place in the | University dining hall following the conferring of degrees.
 | Many of the Alumni and com
 mencement guests will remain Tn
 New Haven until Friday, June 18th, when the annual boat races between
 Harvard and Yale will be held on
 the Thames River course at New London,