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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (CONNECTICUT.) 



hospital, School for Boys, county jails, care of 

 Capitol, etc.; $78,500 for State officers, librarians, 

 Board of Education and Commissioner of School 

 Fund. 



Constitutional Convention. The question 

 submitted to vote of the people in October was 

 decided in favor of a convention for revising the 

 Constitution, by a vote of 47,317 to 26,745. At 

 the same time the two proposed amendments were 

 voted upon and carried, the one for elections by 

 plurality, by a vote of 49,887 to 14,196, and the 

 other for permitting increase in the number of 

 senatorial districts by 42,804 to 17,811. Delegates 

 to the convention were elected in November one 

 for each town 168 in all. The number of Re- 

 publicans elected was 123; Democrats, 45. Of 

 these, 38 were elected by non-partizan vote. The 

 convention met in January, 1902. 



Yale's Bicentennial. The university cele- 

 brated the two hundredth anniversary of its 

 founding Oct. 20-23. Delegates were present rep- 

 resenting the colleges and universities of America, 

 Europe, Asia, and Australia. The celebration 

 opened Sunday, Oct. 20, with sermons and ad- 

 dresses by the Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, the Rev. 

 Dr. Newman Smyth, the Rev. Joseph Anderson, 

 the Rev. W. W. Battershall, and the Rev. Dr. 

 George P. Fisher. On Monday addresses were 

 made by Thomas Thatcher and W. H. Welch, 

 and President Hadley gave the address of wel- 

 come to guests, which was followed by responses 

 of congratulation. In the evening of Monday 

 took place the torchlight procession of graduates 

 and students, which is described as most pic- 

 turesque and unique. " First came the illumina- 

 tion of the green, when 5,000 lights were turned 

 on and the crowd gasped ' Oh ! ' But this was 

 only the beginning. Presently the 7,000 lights on 

 the campus, the orange- colored lanterns that 

 hemmed the dormitories, the hundreds of electric 

 bulbs that faced Vanderbilt Hall, the scores of 

 electric lights on the Phelps gateway, the main 

 entrance to the campus during the bicentennial 

 festivities, and the 1,000 other lights on the old 

 quadrangle started into life. Bands played, stu- 

 dents cheered, and gray-headed men forgot they 

 were not boys. The parade started promptly 

 through the Phelps Gate, when a great flare of 

 red fire behind Welch Hall announced that the 

 procession was in motion. Headed by the grand 

 marshal, the line of fire proceeded through Col- 

 lege and Chapel Streets to Church Street, where 

 it turned to the left and passed the reviewing 

 stand. 



" The first section in the second division were 

 the Indians, who were represented by the class 

 of 1902, academics. Their costumes consisted of 

 long, baggy trousers of brown, with red trim- 

 mings, bright-red jackets, and a headgear of 

 feathers. 



" A company of colonial warriors composed the 

 second section, impersonated by the class of 1902. 

 Their costumes consisted of short trousers of light 

 brown, with long brown stockings, a short coat 

 of the same material, trimmed with white collar 

 and cuffs and a belt of white with a huge steel 

 buckle. 



" The colonial troops were followed by the Con- 

 tinental soldiers, composing the third section in 

 the line. These 1903 academic men wore large 

 George Washington hats of blue, with white tas- 

 sels, coats of blue of the West Point cut, white 

 knickerbockers, white stockings, and low shoes, 

 with immense copper buckles. Their costumes 

 were nearly as striking as those of the 1903 men, 

 who followed them, and who were garbed as rep- 

 resentatives of 1812. The costumes of this 



fourth section were of the Beau Brummel design, 

 consisting of bright-yellow waistcoat, purple 

 swallowtail coat, with large brass buttons, gray 

 trousers, and a huge beaver hat of tan color with 

 yellow band. The boys wore with this costume 

 white ruffled shirts of the style of those days. 



" In the fifth section were the academic sopho- 

 mores, who were gowned as sailors, with entire 

 costumes of white, trimmed with straps of blue 

 and blue sashes. All the freshmen of the univer- 

 sity were Rough Riders in the parade, and as a 

 body of several hundred they made a great show- 

 ing. 



" The students of the medical school, in green 

 caps and gowns; the divinity men, in costumes of 

 red; the members of the law school department, 

 in purple; the Japanese students, in pink; and 

 the art and forest school students as Dominican 

 monks, formed the seventh division in this tre- 

 mendous aggregation of Yale undergraduates. 



" The youngest alumni of Yale, members 1 of 

 the class of 1901, headed the procession of Yale 

 graduates, who composed, with the visiting dele- 

 gates, the third division. As Filipinos, in gowns 

 of brown trimmed with red and large brown hats, 

 they created no end of fun along the line of 

 march. 



" The visiting delegations of students from 

 Harvard, Princeton, Trinity, and Wesleyan, in 

 academic gowns of their college colors, were fol- 

 lowed by the fourth division of the great parade, 

 consisting of the alumni of the university. All 

 wore caps and gowns of the lightest pale blue; 

 and among the 3,500 alumni in line there were 

 members of every class from 1853 to 1901. The 

 prominent features of the parade were the floats 

 and transparencies." 



Tuesday morning was dedicated the memorial 

 gateway, an entrance to the campus between 

 Welch and Osborne halls, erected by the class of 

 1896 in memory of Ward Cheney and Gerard 

 M. Ives, two members of that class who lost their 

 lives in the Spanish- American War. In the fore- 

 noon were addresses by Cyrus Northrop, LL. D., 

 and Daniel C. Gilman, LL. D. ; in the afternoon, 

 football games and a choral performance; in the 

 evening, a dramatic entertainment by students. 

 Wednesday morning occurred the commemoration 

 service, an address by Justice David J. Brewer 

 of the United States Supreme Court, and a poem 

 by Edmund Clarence Stedman, LL. D. In the 

 afternoon a concert was given, followed by the 

 dedication of Woodbridge Hall, with an address 

 by Donald G. Mitchell, LL. D., and a farewell 

 reception by the president. 



President Hadley. The president of Yale 

 University, Arthur Twining Hadley, is the son of 

 James Hadley (1821-1872), who from 1851 was 

 Professor of Greek in that institution and was 

 an eminent philologist. The son was born in New 

 Haven, April 23, 1856, was graduated at Yale in 

 1876, and then studied in Berlin. In 1879 he was 

 appointed a tutor, in Yale, and in 1886 Professor 

 of Political Science there. He became president 

 of the university May 25, 1899. He has made a 

 special study of railroads, and has written much 

 on economic subjects. His publications include: 

 Railroad Transportation (1885) ; Connecticut La- 

 bor Reports (1855-'56) ; An Account of the Rela- 

 tions between Private Property and Public Wel- 

 fare (1896) ; and Report on the System of Weekly 

 Payments. 



Norwalk. On Sept. 11 the town of Norwalk 

 celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniver- 

 sary of its existence as a town, with music, ad- 

 dresses by Rev. A. F. Beard and United States 

 Senator O. H. Platt, and a poem by the Rev. Dr. 



