Yale Commencement.

Much curiosity is felt at Yale with regard to the exercises of the coming University Commencement, which breaks for the first time with the earliest traditions of the college. The music will be more important than heretofore, since it will have a truly academic character and is not intended to be an accompaniment and encouragement to the conversation of the audience. This will be under the direction of Professor Parker. The music will be given by a large chorus of male voices, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra of about fifty pieces, which has already done excellent work, and the organ. Perhaps the most interesting number will be the ode which Edmund Clarence Stedman '53, has written for the occasion, and which Professor Parker has set to music. Immediately before the conferring of degrees, the large chorus and the audience will sing "Gaudeamus," "Integer Vitae," and probably "Lauriger Horatius." The opening and closing pieces will be classical music, played by the orchestra; the former for instance, a movement from one of Beethoven's symphonies, the latter perhaps, a march. The college choir and the Glee Club are expected to form the nucleus of the large chorus. The interest of the occasion is such that every member of the university who can sing may well take pains to join the chorus, that he may have a part in the exercises-of Commencement.