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YALH ALUMNI
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A PERFECT INAUGURATION.
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THE CAMPUS A PARADE GROUND.
The hour set for marshaling the clans
was 8 o'clock, but long before that time
pretty: nearly every undergraduate had
felt it was necessary for the success of
the occasion to try on his blue, or yel-
low, or red, or green robe and mortar
board and light his kerosene torch.
These affairs being found in good work-
ing order, the next step was to practice
the very important matter of marching
properly, and within two minutes of the
birth of the idea the Campus was turned
into a parade ground, where self-ap-
pointed lieutenants and captains shouted
orders regular and irregular to their
straggling squads.
At half past eight o’clock, the bands,
of which there were five, clanged in
through the gates and the serious work
of putting every man where he belonged
began. Class marshals and their aides,
distinguished from their fellows by
gowns of red with white lined capes and
mortar boards of red, dashed about with
their red lanterns and _ sifted and
gathered the host of cheering, surging
students into fairly good lines of five
abreast. After half an hour of this
anxious hurrying and scurrying every-
thing was reported ready and at nine
o’clock Chief Marshal Malcolm L. Mc-
Bride gave the word and the procession
moved forward, breaking all records by
starting on time.
THE “HADLEY TRANSPORTATION COMPANY.”
At the head of the line and guarded by
a score of Seniors came the piece de
resistance of the occasion, the “Hadley
Transportation Co.” train. This very
clever and original compliment to the
new President had been built in the
greatest secrecy on the top story of the
chemical laboratory, and its existence
was known only to a few until the time
for its public appearance. The train,
which consisted of an engine and three
cars, having a total length of about 60
feet and a width of 4 feet, was built of
light material covered with cloth and
painted in exact imitation of the ordi-
nary railroad coach. The engine was
provided with wheels, but the coaches
were carried by sweeps, two in each
car. In the cab of the engine was the
engineer, realistically daubed with oil
and blackened with coal dust, smoking
a corncob pipe, and behind him the
trusty fireman, who kept up a clanging of
the bell for crossings. From the smoke-
stack poured a steady volume of smoke,
which was rather too light in color for
coal, but suggested cotton waste.
Nevertheless the effect was everything
that could be asked. The conductor
and the head and tail brakeman walked
alongside and kept a lookout for hot
boxes and broken wheels. By a clever
sketch in what was made to appear like
the open door of the baggage car, Sena-
tor Chauncey M. Depew was seen hand-
ling’'a ‘trink ‘marked ‘A: T. H.;' Yale’
while in the windows of the cars several
of Yale’s well known men were depicted.
On each side of the train and leading it
a little, transparencies were carried, one
bearing the words, “A New Train of
Thought,” and the other, “Yale is on the
right Track.”
OTHER TRANSPARENCIES.
Members of the Senior class in the
Scientific School carried a blast furnace
12 feet high in full operation as a sym-
bol of their work. By an ingenious use
of chemicals an impressive column of
flame was produced every. few minutes.
The Divinity School, not to be outdone, _
carried a very elaborate production in
miniature of the old Saybrook meeting
house, and a hugh representation of a
book, labelled ‘‘Dwight’s Theology.”
The contribution of the Law School
towards the transparency fund was a
sketch of the bench and bar holding
Saint Elihu on a rail; and the Medical
School was distinguished by a big Red
Cross flag and an ambulance. Most
of the other transparencies carried
showed only class numerals.
The Art School contingent were
marked by a huge pyramidal structure,
on which were seen faces that might
have stood for the Professors of the Art
Department. Under one, whose fame
somewhat lies in that direction, was an
impressionistic picture, with domestic
animals and shocks of corn and such,
just as they really are and perhaps
more. On another side were sugges-
tions of the co-educational side of the
Art School life and the sentiment: “The
girls we left behind us.”
Following the train came the Aca-
demic Department classes in order, the
Seniors in blue, Juniors in green,
Sophomores in purple and the Freshmen
clothed in a very bright yellow. Fol-
lowing them came the Scientific De-
partment, the Law School, Medical
School and Divinity School with bands
at frequent intervals, and all in_distinc-
tive gowns and mortar boards. The
MALCOLM L. MCBRIDE, IQOO
Chief Marshal of Torch Light Parade,
rear of the procession was brought up
by about 150 alumni of New York and
Connecticut, who had procured a band
somewhere that could be heard above
the din, by the first rank of the
Seniors half a mile away. Noah
Swayne, 2d, was marshal.
As the procession wound out throug
the Phelps Gateway through College
Street and down Chapel, it passed
through dense crowds of the townspeo-
ple. Traffic was entirely suspended and
the people stood ten deep on the side-
way and pushed out into the street to
see. On every hand the “Hadley Trans-
portation Co.” train was greeted with
applause and cheers and frequent ex-
pressions of wonder were heard at the
number of students in the line. When
the parade reached the reviewing stand
of Mayor: G. fT. Driscoll:: Yale -Gg. im
front of City Hall, it promptly. halted
and called for a speech. The Mayor’s
remarks about the greatness of Yale
and the ability of her undergraduates
were received with boisterous enthu-
siasm and he was given a long cheer
with “Mayor Driscoll” at the end of it.
The Mayor was obliged to speak to the
different sections as they came along,
there not being sufficient room, for them
to gather in the street within the sound
of his voice at one time.
IN FRONT OF PRESIDENT HADLEY’S.
The line of march from here was up
Church to Grove, Grove to State, State
to Trumbull and up Trumbull to Presi-
dent Hadley’s house at the corner of
Whitney Avenue. On State Street the
train had a rather uneven time of it.
The rain of the morning had caused
what might be called a washout and the
mud lay three inches deep most of the
way, which made walking for the toilers
inside the cars a very uncertain sort of
thing. Unable to see where they were
going they slipped at almost every step
and the coaches swayed this way and
that, bumping together one moment and
severely trying the coupling pins at
another. But this crooked piece of track
was fortunately not long. When the
parade reached President Hadley’s house
President Hadley, ex-President Dwight, |
President Eliot of Harvard, and Profes-
sor Russell H. Chittenden, Director of
the Scientific School, were discovered
on the steps and after a halt had been
made and quiet ordered they addressed
the classes briefly. Their remarks are
recorded elsewhere.
Bride called for cheers for each of the
speakers.
After leaving this point the route was
up Whitney Avenue to Sachem Street,
Sachem to Hillhouse Avenue, Hillhouse
to Grove, Grove to College, College to
Elm and around through the Green by
Temple and Chapel Streets, entering the
Campus again by the Phelps Gateway,
having been two hours and forty minutes
on the way. ‘The citizens who lived
along these streets entered into the spirit
of the event with much enthusiasm and
there were but few houses on all the line
of march that did not show bunting of
Chief Marshal Mc-'
the Yale color.
blue and red fire as the parade passed
and let off roman candles and larger
fireworks.
SCENES AT THE BONFIRE.
As soon as Campus was reached
ranks were broken and the whole Uni-
versity adjourned to the old gymnasium
lot, where a monster bonfire had been
built. An authorized fire this time, and
though the wood had not been stolen
this time, it seemed to burn just as
fiercely. It was not safe to get very
close, but 2,000 men gathered as near
as they could get without blistering and
cheered themselves hoarse for Yale and
the captains of her athletic teams. It
was not until half an hour after mid-
night that the rainbow robes began to
sensibly diminish, and at 1 o'clock and
later the explosion of a cannon cracker
or the sharp snap of a revolver now and
then told that the celebration was still
not dead. 7
A conservative estimate places the
number of undergraduates in the parade
at about 2,400 or nearlv the entire Uni-
versity. Probably 20,000 people saw the
parade along the line of march.
William Alfred Warner, a Sophomore,
was quite severely burned just after his
section of the parade had left President
Hadley’s house, by the explosion of a
kerosene torch. The inflammable cam-
bric gown took fire and before it could
be pulled from him the fire had scorched
his face and hands. He was taken to
the hospital in an ambulance, where an
examination showed that no_ serious
damage was done. Mr. Warner is now
at the Yale Infirmarv and will be out
in a week or so.
The Decorations.
Of all the notable decorations along
the line of march, the most conspicuous
was the electrical display onthe build-
ing of the Edward Malley Company,
which was under the charge of the
Connecticut Electrical Company. E. B.
Underwood, Yale ’06 S., is the Treasurer
and Electrician of the Company, and
was in charge of the decorations.
huge Y, eight feet high, called for nearly
a hundred electric lamps, while the en-
tire scheme of illustrations called for
nearly five hundred lamps.
Speeches Along the Route.
At the reviewing stand Mayor Dris-
coll spoke something as follows, vary-
ing it slightly for the different sections
of the column:
“Fellow Yalemen—The City of New
Haven gladly joins with you in this
celebration of the inauguration of Prof.
Hadley as President of our great Uni-
versity. The University is an important
part of the city and whatever interests
the University interests the citizens of
New Haven.
“They feel a just pride in the great
progress which the University has made
under retiring President Dwight and
they feel confident that under the guid-
ance of the brilliant President Hadley
it will continue to make great progress
in the future. This may be regarded as
the great national University of the
country, for here, to a greater extent
than in any other educational institu-
tion, are gathered students from every
State in the Union. Here men are
measured for what they are intrinsically
worth and all that goes to develop true
manhood is encouraged.
“The citizens of New Haven wish
President Hadley a long and brilliant
career and they wish you, young gentle-
men, every sticcess in life. Your tri-
umphs and your victories will always
bring joy and gladness to their hearts.”
BEFORE THE PRESIDENTS HOUSE.
After the Academic nart of the proces-
sion had been halted in front of Presi- .
dent Hadley’s house and drawn up in-
files close to the curb stone, the Presi-
dent addressed the students briefly. He
thanked them for the honor they were
doing him and told a story. He then
introduced President Eliot by saying
that he would tell Yale men something.
President Eliot said in part:
“There is very little that a Harvard
man can tell a Yale man which he does
not know already.” He. congratulated
the students on their new President and
said it was the fourth inauguration he
had witnessed inside of the last 15 days.
He had been struck with the common
sentiment at all these inaugurations,
Many of them burned
which was strong for democracy, pat-
riotism and Christianity, and said the
ideals of these New England colleges
seemed to be firmly fixed for 30 or 40
years to come. He felt that they would
press on together, working for the com-
mon cause of education, the best cause
in the world.
Ex-President Dwight, as he looked
over the classes, said, that he felt
like the old Virginia planter who owned
half of a slave, John by name, and
when he made his devotions, he asked
blessings on himself, his wife and his
half of Tohn. “Now, gentlemen, said
he, “I own three-fourths of John—three-
fourths of 1900, one half of I901 and
one fourth of 1902—and I hope John
will not forget that he belonged in that
proportion to me. I surely don’t pro-
pose to forget it and I hope my quar-
ters will keep the peace with those of
President Hadley’s. I give you my best
wishes and commend you with all con-
fidence for the future to President
Hadley.”
of the
To the members Scientific
‘School, ex-President Dwight said:
“One of the most pleasant thoughts
of this day, when the University goes
from my care to that of President Had-
ley, is that the Sheffield Scientific School
has been helped in some measure by my
efforts. I knew as little about science as
I do about law, but one of the greatest
privileges and blessings of university
life is that while we cannot know all
we can have the pleasure of association
with those who are possessed of greater
knowledge on various subjects and we
get a grander and better view of life
from such association. I rejoice in the
prosperity of all departments and I think
we have reason to rejoice in the pros-
perity of the Scientific and Law Depart-
ments.”
DIRECTOR CHITTENDEN’S ADDRESSES.
To the Academical Department Prof.
Russell H. Chittenden, Director of the
Sheffield Scientific School, who was in
the President’s party, said:
“It is certainly a striking and sug-
gestive compliment for the Director of
the Sheffield Scientific School to be
called upon to address the students of
the Academical Department on an oc-
casion like the present, and I am sure
that I appreciate the compliment most
highly.”
Prof. Chittenden saw a promise of
great Yale prosperity in the enthusiasm
and loyalty of the undergraduates of
Yale, who would in a few years be the
alumni of Yale, not only abie, but willing
to do great things for her.
Addressing the members of the Scien-
tific School, Prof. Chittenden called upon
them to join with the students of all the
departments in supporting the new ad-
ministration, by upholding the best Yale
standards of scholarship and good fel-
lowship. He then said:
“Differences of thought, as well as
differences in lines of work, must of
necessity lead to division in many things,
and this indeed is what gives to a uni-
versity its necessary breadth; but as
members of the Yale brotherhood, we
are all free and equal in our undergrad-
uate rights, and in no way is this fact
better illustrated than by the unanimity
with which the ushering in of the new
administration is celebrated. May the
era of good fellowship long continue,
and may the Academic and the Scienti-
fic, as undergraduate members of the
same University, though in different
departments of study, march together
under a common banner in pursuit of
the knowledge which gives to the uni-
versity man his equipment for life’s
work.”
SPEECHES TO THE GRADUATES.
When the graduates, who, about one
hundred and fifty strong, made the last
division of the parade, reached Presi-
dent Hadley’s house, they also, of course,
asked for a speech, after doing a good
deal of cheering. The President re-
plied that he was always glad to meet
Yale alumni, and particularly, the mem-
bers of the Yale Club of New York,—
who constituted a large part of the grad-
uate division, and under whose auspices
the graduate division had been formed.
He added frankly, that he had made so
many speeches that he could not make
any more. He said that he was in the
position of the stuttering man who tried
to buy a ticket to New York. This man
took so long to say what he wanted to,
that the crowd pushed him along and he
had to come up again to the ticket office
from the end of the line. By that time
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