man; BE. H. Brewer, P. D. Mills, B. W.
Kountze and W. 8. Cameron. Two thou-
sand invitations have been issued.
THE BACCALAUREATE.
The Baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered this year by President Dwight
in Battell Chapel on Sunday morning,
June 27, at half-past ten o’clock.
PRESENTATION EXERCISES.
At eleven o’clock on the morning of
Monday; June 28, the Presentation Ex-
ercises of the graduating Class of the
Academic Department will take place
- in Battell Chapel. The Class oration will
be delivered by Charles Heitler Studin-
ski,and the Class poem by Robert Lewis
Munger.
CHARLES HEITLER STUDINSKI,
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AT THE LAW SCHOOL. |
At one o’clock the annual meeting of
the Yale Law School Alumni Associa-
tion will be held in the Law School
Building, followed by a luncheon, at
which impromptu speeches will be
made. Immediately following the col-
lation, at about half-past two, the
alumni will march in a body to the Col-
lege Street Hall, where the Anniver-
sary Exercises of the Law School will
take place at three o’clock. The ad-
dress to the Graduating Class will be
delivered this year by Justice John M.
Harlan of the United States Supreme
Court, and there will be an innovation
in the form of a Doctor’s Oration,
which will be delivered by Tokichi Ma-
sao, of Japan. The Townsend Prize-
Speaking will be held at this time, in
which competiton four Seniors of the
Law School are to take part: C. L.
Avery, R. S. Baldwin, J. E. Profit, and
J. W. Thompson. It has been decided
to hold no class supper this year.
NINETY-SEVEN CLASS DAY.
At two o’clock will be held the annual
Class Day exercises of the Senior Class
of the Academic Department. Seats will
be erected in the form of a quadrangle
on the Campus between Lyceum and
North College. The Senior Class will
occupy the enclosure and the visitors
the raised seats. The committee in
charge is, Dean Sage, Jr., Chairman;
G. C. Brooke, L. Hinkey, C. E. Heffel-
finger, EK. E. Garrison, and the follow-
ing program has been arranged:
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History..Charles Brandebury De Camp
Song—‘‘Stand to Your Glasses Steady’’
History... .......ss...George Parmly Day
Song—‘‘Bright College Years’’......
PIAS COL Y. 6s eh sure Thomas Ludlow Clarke
Song—‘‘Should Fortune Prove Unkind”’
SE IBCOLY. 5668S RES Frederick Tilney
Bong<SHH Vale? cies sc casei hs cees
History ........sumner Kemble Gerard
Later the Class Ivy will be planted.
The Ivy Committee consists of C. R.
Hemenway, chairman; C. EH. Thomas
and R. DeL. Hamilton, and at the
close of the exercises the ‘Ivy Ode,’’
written by Victor Sutro, will be sung to
the tune of “Integer Vitae.’’
THE SENIOR PROMENADE,
At 9 o’clock in the evening the Sen-
ior Promenade will take place in Alum-
ni Hall. Invitations have been issued
to the number of three hundred. The
program contains twenty-four dances,
the waltz and two-step in alternation,
and five extras. The Promenade Com-
mittee consists of F. M. Crosby, chair-
man; William B. Darrach, floor man-
ager; Walter L. Goodwin, Ebenezer
Hiil, Jr., Albert F. Judd, Jr., James R.
Judd, James I. Lineaweaver, Amos R.
K. Pinchot and James P. Sawyer.
GENERAL ALUMNI MEETING.
On Tuesday morning at half-past. 9
the Alumni: will hold their annual
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meeting in Alumni Hall, and the polls
will be open from 10 o’clock until 1 for
the election of a member of the Cor-
poration.
MEDICAL SCHOOL EXERCISES.
At 12 o’clock William M. Polk, M. D.,
of New York City, will deliver the an-
nual anniversary address before the
members of the Medical School in the
College Street Hall. Dr. Polk has cho-
sen for his subject “How to Work,”
and all alumni and friends of the school
are cordially invited to be present.
REUNIONS.
Meetings will also be held at differ-
ent hours during the day, as will be
seen in another column, of the College
Classes of 1842, 1847, 1852, 1857, 1862, 186’,
1872, 1877, 1882, 1887, 1891 and 1894.
YALE-HARVARD GAME.
In the afternoon, at the Yale Field,
there will be a baseball game between
Yale and Harvard, and in the evening
will occur the annual concert of the
University Glee and Banjo clubs, fol-
lowed by Senior German in Alumni
Hall, which will be led by W. Darrach.
COMMENCEMENT.
At 10 o’clock of Wednesday, June 30,
the Alumni will march from the Li-
brary to Battell Chapel, where the
Commencement exercises of the Uni-
versity will be held. After an address
by the President, the announcements
of the prizes and fellowships of the
University will be made. The candi-
dates for degrees will be presented to
the President by the Deans of the re-
spective Faculties, and the following
degrees will be conferred in order:
Bachelors of Arts, Bachelors of Phil-
osophy, Bachelors of Laws, Bachelors
of Divinity, Masters of Arts, Masters
of Laws, Civil Engineers, Mechanical
Engineers, Doctors of Civil Law, Doc-
tors of Medicine, Doctors of Philosophy.
Next will follow the conferring of hon-
orary degrees by the President. The
Commencement choir which will ren-
der the music at these exercises con-
sists of the College Choir, and mem-
bers of the First and Second Glee clubs,
together with several others, and has
been trained under the supervision of
Mr. H. B. Jepson.
ALUMNI DINNER.
At 2 o’clock the dinner of the Alumni
will take place in Alumni Hall, and at
9 o’clock the President will hold a re-
ception to the Alumni in the Art
School.
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The Class Orator.
Charles Heitler Studinski, of Pueblo,
Col., class orator of the Class of Nine-
ty-Seven, prepared for College at the
Pueblo High School and attended the
University of Colorado for two years,
entering Yale in the Junior year. He
has been an active member of the Yale
Union and was its President during the
past term. Mr. Studinski was an alter-
nate on the team which debated
against Harvard in 1896, and a mem-
ber of the victorious team against Har-
vard of this year. He won the Thatch-
er prize in 1897, offered for the best de-
bater in the Academic, Department.
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The Class Poet.
Robert Lewis Munger, of Ansonia,
Conn., Class Poet of the Class of Nine-
ty-Seven, was born in Ansonia, July
6, 1875. He prepared for college at the
Hopkins Grammar School, where he
was an editor of the school paper,
“The Fence.” He was Chairman of
the ‘Courant,’ and a member of Chi
Delta Theta. His contributions in poet-
ry to the “Lit.” have been the best from —
CLASS REUNIONS.
Details of the Various Meetings of
Next Week.
The regular class reunions of twelve
Academie classes will be held on Tues-
day of Commencement week and full
particulars of their arrangements are
- given below for the convenience of their
members.
FORTY-TWO.
Of the Class of 1842, 108 men grad-
uated, and of those twenty-three are
living. The wide scattering of the
Class will prevent a very large attend-
dance at their fifty-fifth anniversary
reunion this year.
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FORTY-SEVEN,
Out of the 124 who graduated in the
class of 1847, 27 are living. Room C,
Osborn Hall. will be at the disposal of
the Class, for its fiftieth anniversary,
and two meetings will be held there,
one on Monday, June 28, at 3 p. m., and
the other at 9 o’clock Tuesday morning.
FIFTY-TWO.
It is the ninth reunion of the Class of
1852 that will be held on Tuesday, June
29th. A large number of the Class have
Signified their intention of being pres-
ent, and it seems as if the reunion this
year will be in every way as success-
ful as the eight former ones were. The
Class Secretary, A. N. Lewis, of Mont-
pelier, Vt., desires information concern-
ing the following, before June 28th, 1897:
William B. Clarke, George R. Downing,
Thomas Dunlap, Matthew W. Ed-
monds, Benjamin C. Flake, James R.
Frisbie, Alvin P. Hildredth, Fleming J.
McCarthy, Jesse McCurdy, who was
graduated at Dartmouth; D. Hastings
Mason, Alonzo Megarge, Washington
H. Merritt, William N. Richardson, Cy-
rus A. Royston, Daniel T. Russell, The-
ron W. 'Trowner, George C. Tucker,
George S. Williams, Giles B. Williams.
The details for Tuesday are as fol-
lows: Business meeting, 12m., Room
Bi, Osborn Hall. Banquet at Acad-
emy Hall, 890 Chapel Street, between
Temple and Church Streets. ‘‘Former
members” of the Class are especially
invited.
FIFTY-SEVEN.
The fortieth anniversary of the Class
of 1857 is in charge of a committee
consisting of Arthur M. Wheeler, Sam-
uel Scoville and Robert Brown, who
have made full arrangements for the
comfort of the members of the Class
and their familics. The Class head-
quarters will be in Room C2, Osborn
Hall, which will be kept open at all
hours. The following program for
Tuesday has been arranged: Business
meeting in Room C2 in the morning.
Shortly before noon the Class will leave
for the Observatory grounds, where a
luncheon wil be tendered by one of the
the committee. In the afternoon a spe-
cial car has been secured to take the
Class to the Yale-Harvard baseball
game. At 9 p. m. the Class supper wilil
be served at the rooms of the Womans’
Hixchange, at No. 151 Orange street, be-
tween Chapel and Court street, on the .
ground floor.
SIXTY-TWO.
The thirty-fifth anniversary reunion
of the Class of 1862 will be held on
Tuesday, June 29. It is expected that
a large number of the Class will be
present. The business meeting will be
held in. Professor Kitchel’s room, 8
Phelps’ Hall, at noon, Tuesday. The
Class Dinner will be held in the County
Court. House on Tuesday evening, at
a time to be decided at the meeting.
ROBERT LEWIS MUNGER.
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SIXTY-SEVEN.
Each member of the Class of 1867 will
please register on his arrival at New
Haven at the Yale Library. The fol-
lowing schedule has been arranged:
Business meeting in Di, Osborn Hall,
at 11 a.m., Tuesday; Class photograph’
on steps of Osborn Hall at 12 m.; Yale-
Harvard baseball match at 3 pi: ms
Class supper in the Yale Law Library
Building, Elm street, at 7 Ds Maron,
full attendance is earnestly requested
in order that the reunion may be most
successful.
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SEVENTY-TWO.
The arrangements for the twenty-
fifth anniversary reunion of the Class
of 1872 have been announced in a Cir-
cular issued several weeks ago. The
members are requested to register at
the Yale Co-operative Store immedi-
ately on their arrival. There will be a
business meeting of the Class in Room
E1, Osborn Hall, on Tuesday morn-
ing, June 29th, at half-past ten. An in-
formal reception and lunch for mem-
bers of the Class, their wives and chil-
dren, will be held at one o’clock, at the
New Haven Lawn Club on Whitney
Avenue. From there they will go to the
Harvard-Yale baseball game in barges.
In the evening at eight o’clock the Class
supper will be held at the New Haven
Lawn Club House.
Members of the Class are requested
to send their photographs to W. L.
Cushing, Dobbs’ Ferry, N. Y., if they
have not done so, and also to write the
Class Secretary all facts concerning
their history since January, 1892, to aid
him in preparing the Class Record from
that time.
SEVENTY-SEVEN.
Out of the 117 members who grad-
. uated in 1877, it is expected that sixty
will be present. Application for seats
at the Yale-Harvard baseball game for
the Class has been made. The busi-
ness meeting will be held in Fl, Osborn
Hall, at noon Tuesday. The Class Sup-
per will be served in the Library of the
Yale Law School building, on Elm
street. Maresi of New York will be the
caterer. The Class of 1877 was the last
one to attend prayers in the Old
Chapel.
EIGHTY-TWO.
The quindecennial meeting of the
Class of 1882 should be attended by 60 or
more members of the Class. The com-
mittee has made the following arrange~
ments: Business meeting will be held
at the class headquarters, Room E2,
Osborn Fiall, at. 11) acm. 2At 2 pe Mm. a
special car will convey the Class to the
Yale-Harvard baseball game, where
seats have been secured. The Hartford
City Band has been engaged for the
afternoon and evening. The Class din-
ner will be served by Sherry of New
York at the Anderson Gymnasium, 307
York street, at 7 p. m. Kent Hall, a
new apartment building for students,
on the corner of York and Wall streets,
has been secured for the accommoda-
tion of the members of the class. Forty
rooms may be had there at $1.00 per
day. Members wishing rooms there
should notify the secretary at once.
The following men compose the com-
mittee in charge of the reunion: John
P. Kellogg, Howard H. Knapp, Arthur
S. Osborne, secretary, and William S.
Pardee.
EIGHTY-SEVEN.
The decennial reunion of the Class of
1887 will be held on Tuesday, June 29.
A. business meeting will be held at noon
Tuesday, and the Yale-Harvard game
will be attended in the afternoon. The
Class Dinner will be held in TDLenox
Hall, at 6:30 p. m., and a number of
speeches will be given. * The commit-
tee in charge are O. G. Jennings, San-
ford EK. Cobb, James R. Sheffield and
Professor W. L. Phelps.
NINETY-ONE.
For the sexennial reunion of the Class
of 1891, all arrangements have been
completed and a large number are ex-
pected. The program is as follows: 11:30
a. m., business meeting, followed by
Class Prayer Meeting; 3 p. m., Yale-
Harvard baseball game, for which a
band has already been engaged; 6 p.
m., procession around the Campus,
‘starting at Osborn Hall and ending at
Harmonie Hall, where the Class sup-
per will be held. The Class dues are $2
and the supper assessment $5.
NINETY-FOUR.
At the Triennial reunion of the Class
of 1894 it is expected that about 140
men will be present. The headquarters
of the Class during triennial will be in
176 Lyceum, where members are re-
quested to report and register. The
Committee have relinquished their in-
tention of securing a special car for
the Yale-Harvard-Cornell boat race, as
the fact that the race takes place on
Friday, June 25, the week before Tri-
ennial, makes it improbable that a
large number of the Class will be able
to attend. However, seats have been
secured by application to the President
of the Navy, Mr. J. S. Wheelwright,
New Haven, Conn., who reserved xa
number together for the Class.