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Yale will celebrate its 250th Commencement next Sunday and Monday. Formal Commencement activities begin on Sunday morning at 11 in Woolsey Hall with President A. Whitney Griswold delivering his first Baccalaureate Address, Senior Class Day Exercises will follow on Sunday afternoon, and Commencement Exercises will take place at 10:30 on the Old Campus...
With the new president in their midst, the notables marched into the vaulted auditorium of Woolsey Hall and there, as Yalemen had done at the opening of the first college building, they sang an old metrical version of the 65th Psalm ("Thy praise alone, O Lord, doth reign / in Sion Thine own hill . . ."). Then Whitney Griswold, wearing around his neck the "president's collar" of 20 gold & silver links and a pendant medallion with the arms of Elihu Yale, received the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university "to cherish and defend." Finally, in the tradition...
...induction ceremony in Woolsey Hall was brief and small. The Reverend Arthur How Bradford, a senior fellow of Yale, turned over the University's founding charter, seal, and keys to the new president...
Students will not be permitted to attend the proceedings because of the limited seating capacity of Woolsey Hall; however, there will be no classes from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. on the day of the ceremony...
Griswold will receive his symbols of office the charter, the seal, and the keys of the university from the presiding officer, The Reverend Arthur H. Bradford, senior fellow of the Yale Corporation. The new president will be escorted to Woolsey Hall by members of the Corporation, university officers, and deans and masters in academic procession...