YALE BICENTENNIAL

Yale's bicentennial celebration was concluded yesterday. The closing exercises, held in the Hyperion Theatre, consisted of a commemorative poem by E. C. Stedman, and a Greek festival hymn, both composed for the occasion, together with a commemorative address delivered by Justice Brewer of the Supreme Court.

After these exercises came the presentation of candidates for honorary degress. In a long list of recipients the following men also hold degrees from Harvard: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; William Watson Goodwin, professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University; Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the history of art, emeritus, in Harvard University; James Coolidge Carter, for many years president of the New York Bar Association; Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador of the United States at the Court of St. James; Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Harvard University; Richard Olney, former Secretary of State; Whitelaw Reid, editor of the New York Tribune; James Bradley Thayer, professor of law in Harvard University; Charles William Dabney, president of the University of Tennessee; Horace Howard Furness, editor of the Variorum edition of Shakespeare's Works; Basil Lanneau Gildereleeve, professor of Greek in Johns Hopkins University; John Shaw Billings, director of the New York Public Library; Samu-1 Pierp nt Langley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Henry Codman Potter, bishop of New York; Melville-Weston Fuller, Chief Justice of the United States; Seth Low, for many years president of Columbia University; Thomas Bailey Aldrich, for many years editor of the Atlantic Monthly; Richard Watson Gilder, editor of the Century Magazine; William Dean Howells, formerly editor of the Atlantic Monthly, author of the "Rise of Silas Lapham" and other works; George Harri, president of Amherst College.