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
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