Word: saybrook
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part of the services commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of Yale's removal from Saybrook to New Haven, President Arthur T. Hadley preached a sermon pointing out to undergraduates their civic duties, and their relations to the cities in which they make their home. In the course of his remarks Dr. Hadley said...
Last Saturday Yale University celebrated the 200th anniversary of the removal of that institution from Saybrook to New Haven. On October 17, 1716, the corporations voted to remove the college permanently, owing to the business and scholastic superiority of the larger town. On October 21, 1916, 8,000 persons participated in the largest pageant in the world--the "Pageant of the Town and Gown," symbolizing the bond of friendship between one of America's foremost educational institutions and its "home town...
...celebration of the 200th anniversary of the removal of Yale University from Saybrook to New Haven has been carried out by an elaborate program of exercises for the last three days. The initial event was the production of the masque, "Cupid and Psyche," in the art school Friday evening. A formal historical meeting commemorating the moving of the university was held in Battell Chapel on Saturday. The meeting consisted of a sermon by President Hadley, an historical address by Professor Willison Walker and an exchange of greetings between the city and the university...
Yale is planning an elaborate celebration for the 200th anniversary of the removal of Yale College from Saybrook, Conn., to New Haven, and of the 50th anniversary of the Yale School of Fine Arts next fall. A feature of the anniversary on Oct. 21 will be a pageant in the Yale Bowl in which 4000 persons will participate. The spectacle will be in charge of F. H. Markoe, of London, a graduate of Yale, who helped plan the last coronation pageant in London and who organized the recent South African pageant...