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YALE ALUMNI WHEHEKLY COMMENCEMENT. A Calendar of Events for the Week. The following article gives a sketch of the happenings for each day of Com- mencement week in chronological order: DEFOREST SPEAKING. The first exercises of Commencement week was the competition for the De- Forest Prize Medal for public speaking, which took place on Friday, June 24, at three o’clock in the afternoon, in Battell Chapel. The participants in this competition were the six men who won the Townsend Premiums | this Spring for excellence in English Com- position, and were: Herbert Wescott Fisher of New Haven, Conn., who spoke on the subject, “The Ja¢obites”’; Herbert Draper Gallaudet of Washing- ton, D. C., on “The Jacobites’; Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr., of New York City, on “Tennyson”; Robert Kilburn Root of New Haven, Conn., on “Archbishop Sand”; Edward Clark Streeter of Chi- cago, Ill., on “The Romances of De- foe,’ and Henry Burt Wright of New Haven, Conn., on “The Decline of Spain.” The judges were President Dwight and a committee of professors chosen at the last moment. 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 street, where the reading of the Class histories will take place. The Commit- tee in charge consists of Philo R. King, Chairman; Walter L. Worrall, Fred- erick K. T. Gause, James L. Thompson, and Edgar D. Pouch. The following will be the order of exercises: Songe—“Bingo.”’ Class History, Song—Eli Yale.” Class History, S. Sherman Day. Song——“Stand to Your Glasses Steady.” Class History, : ha yh od Class History, James L. Howard. Ssong—“Bright College Years.” Class History, William P. Stewart. Class Song, words by W. F. C. Tich- borne. In the afternoon a reception and dance will be given by the Faculty and Class from four until seven in Win- chester Hall, to the graduates and friends of the Sheffield Scientific School. Francis J. Tytus. THE BACCALAUREATE, The Baccalaureate sermon will be delivered by President Dwight in Battell Chapel on Sunday morning, June 26, at half past ten o’clock. PRESENTATION EXERCISES. On Monday morning, June 27, at eleven o’clock, the Presentation Exer- cises of the graduating class of the Academical Department will take place in Battell Chapel. The Class oration will be delivered by Samuel Eliot Bas- sett, and the Class poem by Forsyth Wickes. NINETY-EIGHT CLASS DAY. At two o’clock Monday will be held the annual Class Day Exercises of the Senior class of the Academic De- partment. Seats will be erected in the form of an oblong on the Campus be- tween Library and South Middle. The Senior class will occupy the enclosure, and the visitors the raised seats. The music will be furnished by a band. The Committee in charge consists of Ed- ward Carter Perkins, Chairman; Morris Upham Ely, ‘Josiah Judson Hazen, Frank Hunter Simmons, Edward Saw- yer, and the following program has been arranged: Song—“Bingo.” History, J. Hamilton. Scranton. Song—“Integer Vitae.” History, Frank A. Lord. Song—‘“‘Drinking Song.” History, Philip W. Hamill. Song—“The Pope.” | History, Julian S. Mason. Song—‘Bright College Years.” History, Arthur D. Baldwin. Later the Class Ivy will be planted. The Ivy Committee consists of Charles Edward Ives, Chairman; Herbert Bud- and the New Haven Symphony Or- chestra. The Orchestra will also ren- der several selections. dington Wilcox, Julian Starkweather Mason. MEDICAL SCHOOL EXERCISES. ALUMNI DINNER. At two o’clock the Alumni dinner will take place in Alumni Hall, and from nine until eleven o’clock the Presi- dent will hold a reception to the Alumni in the Art School. As usual there will be no special graduation exercises at the Yale Medi- cal School, except the annual address in Medicine, which will be delivered by Professor Clarence J. Blake of Har- vard University, on Tuesday, June 28, at twelve o’clock in College Street Hall, on “The Citizen Doctor.” In ‘the evening a reception will be given for Professor Blake at the residence of Dr. Carmalt, to which all the alumni are invited. The annual banquet of the Alumni Association will be held at the Tontine Hotel, on Monday evening, June 27th, at eight o’clock, and on Tuesday morn- ing, at 10 o’clock, the nineteenth annual business meeting will be held at the Medical School. The Graduating Class held their an- nual supper on Friday, June 24, at the Morris Cove Hotel. LAW SCHOOL ANNIVERSARY. At half past one o’clock the annual meeting of the Yale Law School Alumni Association will be held in the Law School Building, followed by a luncheon at which extemporaneous speeches will be made. Immediately after the collation, at about a quarter of three, the alumni will march in a body to the College Street Hall, where the Anniversary Exercises of the Law School will take place at three o’clock. The address to the Graduating Class will then be delivered by the Hon. Charles Andrews, LL.D., of Syracuse, ex-Chief Justice of the Court of Ap- peals of New York on “The Influence of America on Jurisprudence.” The Master’s Oration will be delivered by John M. Shepard of Pittsburgh, Texas. The Townsend Prize-Speaking will be held at this time, in which competition four Seniors of the Law School are to take part: E. W. Beattie, G. L. Hedges, J. O. Moore, and S. Peterson, and the award of prizes will then be made. It has been decided to hold no Class Supper this year. ALUMNI MEETING. On Tuesday morning at half past nine the Alumni will hold their annual meeting in Alumni Hall, and the polls will be open in the Library from ten o'clock until one for the election of a member of the Corporation. 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 1848, 1853, 1858, 1863, 1868, 1873, 1878, 1888, 1892 and 1895. CLASS REUNIONS. Details of the Various Meetings of Next Week as Far as Possible to Obtain. YALE-HARVARD GAME. In the afternoon at three o’clock at the 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, followed by the Senior german in Alumni, which will bé led by H. B. Wilcox. The regular Class reunions of eleven Academic classes and three Sheff. classes will be held on Tuesday of Commence- ment week, and full particulars of their arrangements are given below for the convenience of their members. COMMENCEMENT. | : ‘ FORTY-EIGHT. The Commencement Exercises will be held in Battell Chapel at ten o’clock on Wednesday, June 29. Previous to these exercises the alumni will march in a body from the Library to Battell Chapel. After an address by the Presi- dent, the announcement of the prizes and fellowships of the University will be made. The candidates for degrees will be presented to the President by the Deans of the respective Faculties, and the following degrees will be con- ferred: Bachelors of Arts, Bachelors of Philosophy, Bachelors of Laws, Bache- lors of Divinity, Masters of Arts, Mas- ters of Laws, Civil Engineers, Mechani- cal Engineers, Doctors of Civil Law, Doctors of Medicine, Doctors of Philos- ophy. Next will follow the conferring of honorary degrees by the President. There will be no choir singing this year. They hymns will be sung by the con- gregtion, accompanied by the organ The fiftieth anniversary of the Class of Forty-Eight will occur on Tuesday. About sixteen members are expected to ~be present at the luncheon to be given by “A.D: Osborne: at “his: houses: $2 Trumbull street, at half past one o’clock. The meeting will continue as long after luncheon as it may be agreeable. FIFTY “THREES, The forty-fiith anniversary of the Class of Fifty-Three will be held on Tuesday. The business meeting takes place at twelve o’clock noon in Room Bi, Osborn Hall. The Class supper will be at the Tontine Hotel at 8 Pp. m. the same evening. FIFTY-EIGHT. About twenty men have signified their intention of being present at the fortieth [Continued on 8th page.] THE TRAVELERS « JAMES G. BAT’TERSON, Pres’t. Of Hartford, Conn. 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