While the people of Tokio, the capital of the Japanese Empire, were bowed in grief and thronging to the funeral of Yoshihito, the one hundred and twenty-third Emperor, 100 Japanese students of Greater Boston were gathered at a service in remembrance of the late ruler.

Behind the closed doors of the Phillips Brooks House chapel the Nipponese students met at 8 o'clock last night in the brief religious ceremony that constituted their tribute to the memory of the Mikado. The service was kept strictly private, and no description of its nature could be obtained.

The Mikado, who died some little time ago, was revered by Japanese the world over as a deity supposedly a lineal descendant of the mythical sun-god. Funeral celebrations by his subjects in all lands are held at night, because of a belief that the imperial spirit must go from darkness to darkness.