Voutume VI. No. 35.
NEW HAVEN, CONN., TUESDAY, JUNE 32 1897,
Price Firreen Cents.
THE PRESIDENT AND DEANS OF YALE. i. :
COMMENCEMENT OF 189.
The Exercises of the Day Itself and
the Program for the Week.
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The exercises on Commencement Day,
June 30, will follow the lines established
two years ago, when radical changes
were made in the time-honored cere-
monies in Center Church. Promptly at
ten o’clock the procession of graduates
and candidates will form on the Cam-
pus, the former on the walk stretching
from Durfee to Vanderbilt Halls and
under the leadership of Professor T. S.
Woolsey as Marshal’; the latter on the
walk between Alumni Hall and the
University Library, under the leader-
ship. of their various Class Marshal's.
The Corporation, Faculty and invited
guests form on the walk south of the
Treasury Building, under Professor H.
W. Farnam, their mar.hal. As soon
as formed, the procession will start,
led by Professor J. C. Schwab, Chief
Marshal , with his assistants, the Sher-
iff of New Haven County, and a mili-
tary band, and follow the usual route
through the gateway of Phelps Hall
and back to the Campus, through the
archway of Vanderbilt Hall and to the
Battell Chapel, along the remnant of
the ‘“‘Brick Row,’’ where the double line
of candidates will open and allow the
Faculty, Corporation and guests to pass
through into the Chapel. The candi-
dates and Alumni will follow to their
assigned places in the building. The
galleries will be reserved for ladies, and:
will be almost completely occupied by
friends of the candidates. The latter
wili number some 450, the largest num-
ber in the history of the University,
and will occupy the largest part of the
lower floor of the Chapel.
The exercises will open with a musi-
cal selection by the New Haven Sym-
phony Orchestra, under Professor H.
W: Parker. After the prayer, the well-
MR. JUSTICE JOHN M. HARLAN.
Orator for Law School Commencement.
known 65th Psalm, sung in 1718, at the
opening of the College, will, as usual,
be sung. After an address and the an-*"
nouncement of prizes by the President,
the Latin Ode, especially set to music
for the occasion, by George W. Chad-
wick of Boston, will be sung by the
male chorus of fifty voices. Then will
follow the Presentation to the Presi-
dent and Fellows by the Deans or Di-
rectors of the various Faculties of can-
didates for degrees. Degrees will then
be conferred upon, approximately: 275
Bachelors of Arts, 117 Bachelors of
Philosophy, 105 Bachelors of Law, some
30 Bachelors of Divinity (in their ab-
sence), 12 Masters of Arts, 15 Masters
of Law and Doctors of Civil Law, 2 Me-
chanical Engineers, 35 Doctors of Med-
icine, and 25 Doctors of Philosophy.
Finally, the candidates for Honorary
Degrees, not to be announced until the
day, will be presented by Professor G.
P. Fisher, and the President will confer
the degrees upon them. The ceremony
will close about one o’clock with the
singing of a Latin song, the benediction
and an orchestral selection.
Details of the Week.
The exercises of Commencement
Week will begin on Thursday, June 24,
with the competition for the De For-
est Prize Medal-for public speaking,
which will take place in Battell Chapel
at three o’clock. The participants in
this competition will be the six men
who won the Townsend Premiums this
Spring for excellence in English Com-
position. They will speak in the fol-
lowing order: William Henry Harri-
son Hewitt, of New Haven, on the sub-
ject, “The Prometheus of Aeschylus
and of Shelley;” William Stone Hub-
hell, Jr.,. Of; Butiaio,: N.: ¥.,. on, ‘*The
Grail Legend in English;’’ Walter Dun-
ham Makepeace, of Springfield, Mass.
on ‘French Revolution and the Eng-
lish Poets;”? Nathan Ayer Smyth of New
Haven, Conn., on, “The Grail Legend
in English; Henry Hotchkiss Town-
shend, on, “The French-Canadian;” Al-
exander Wheeler, of Bridgeport, Conn.,
on, “The Prometheus of Aeschylus and
of Shelley.’’ The judges will consist of
President Dwight and a committee of
professors to be chosen later.
SHEFF. CLASS DAY.
On Saturday will occur the Class Day
exercises of the Sheffield Scientific
School at half-past ten in the morning.
An amphitheater will be erected at the
corner of Hillhouse Avenue and Grove
Streets, where the reading of the Class
histories will take place. The commit-
tee in charge consists of R. A. Hickok,
Chairman; BE. H. Brewer, J. M. Gerard,
W. O..D. .Cox, Jr.,. and H. M. Ingham,
and the following program has been ar-
ranged:
Song--‘‘Here’s to Good, Old Yale’’..
Class History...........So0l Branch Cerf
Sone—"“Dear Old Yale’’...........0..
Class History...George Hamilton Flinn
Song—“‘AMICI’ .. 0. ewe ce ce ee tee eeee
Class History.....Robert Carr Lanphier
Song—“Hli Yale’’.... 2... cc cce ee eceecs
Class History.........Reuben Hitchcock
Class History....Walter Scott Cameron
At the conclusion of the exercises the
Class song, written by Walter Scott
Cameron, will be sung to the tune of
“Intger Vitae.’”’ In the afternoon the
annual reception and dance tendered
by the Governing Board of the Shef-
field Scientific School to the graduating
Class will be held from four until seven.
Two rooms in Winchester Hall have
been set apart, one for receiving and
the other for- dancing, both of which
will be supplied with electric fans to
keep them as cool as possible. The fol-
lowing will compose the committee rep-
resenting the Governing Board: Profs.
Charles S. Hastings, Charles B. Rich-
ards, Thomas R. Lounsbury, William G.
Mixter and Henry W. Farnam, repre-
senting the Class, J. W. Best, Chair-