St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-06-02
A Large Programme Of Com
mencement Festivities
Prepared,
To Begin With the Bacca-
laureate Address This Aft
ernOOn.
The Senior Promenade, Class
Day and Alumni Day
Features.

military building is opened for the bac-
calaureate praise service. the seven
tenth commencement week of the state
university will have been begun. The
week will be an unusually interesting
one, as several events which have for
merly been distributed through the col
lege year have been thrown into the
commencement week.
The programme for the baccalaureate
service will be music by the Gounod
club and the address by President
Northrop.
Tomorrow will be devoted to field
day sports. For the first time the
students have a regularly laid out ath
letic park and parade ground ana the
consequence is likely to be some break
ing of records. In the forenoon occurs
the competitive drill between the col
lege military companies A: b, q and q
for the college banner, and afterwards
individual competitive drills for the
gold badge-offered by Lieut.. Glenn.
Capt. j. l.. Armory and Lieut.. Glenn
will act as judges. In the afternoon
the regular programme of field sports
will be carried out. In the evening the
tenth annual home oratorical contest
will take place in Olivet Baptist
church. The speakers and their
subjects are Theo NJ. Knoppen,
'.Ireland;" Charles Bray, Luther
Before the Diet of Worms"
Milton Rex. sources of Good Govern
ment:" B. H. Timberlake, ''Lincoln;"
II. p. Baily, "Beecher:" Earle Fry
berger, "Savonarola;" JIG. Grant, 1.-THE
Impending Evil" PA. "A. Dodge. Slavery
and Its Emancipation" The judges on
thought and composition are Rev. w. j.
Lhamon, Hon. Gordon E. Cole. Prof. W.
S. Pattee; on delivery, s. G. Gale, Rev.
Sc. Smith and Judge William LOchren.
Tuesday is the time-honOred class day
when the seniors burn their books and
make their gifts to the university. The
present class will leave no memorial on
the campus. but has guaranteed sub
speaking. The programme Tuesday
afternoon in the chapel will consist of
the class history, statistics, Grafton
prophesy, class songs and the usual
aftermath on the campus.
Tuesday will see a great audience as
sembled III the military building to wit
ness the senior promenade. About 1000
invitations have been sent out. The
United States Infantry band will fur
rish the music for the dancing, and the
affair will be full dress.
Wednesday is alumni day. The bus
mess meeting of the association will be
held at 10 a. m. in the university par
lors, followed by the annual meeting of
the Fellowship association. At $50 p. m.
the alumni will banquet at the West
hotel, and carry out programme of
toasts and responses. The alumni ora
ton, history and poem are also expected
to be forthcoming on this occasion.
On Wednesday afternoon the contest
for the PillSbury prizes will take place.
They are cash prizes OF $50, S25 and $50
offered by Regent j. S. Pillsbury to
encourage original work in the histori-
cal department. There have been
have reduced the number of contestants
from twenty-five to seven, three of
whom are destined to get the reward
offered. Those who are to speak are
o. l.. Triggs on 'The Times" T. &.
Soares, John Bright" K. c. Babcock,
"CromweIl;" ]. Paul Goode, Modern
Music" Gratia Countryman, ''Safe-
guards of Our Suffrage" Silver Serum
gard, ''Step by Step" Henry Johnson,
''The Labor Question"
The last and of course the greatest
day of the week will be the regular
commencement on Thursday morning
at 9 o'clock in the military building.
The class of 's9. which will step off into
the world that morning, numbers in the
literary academic course twenty-three
members; one in the civil engineering;
twenty-five in the medical department.,
and four in thescoliege of law. Only
ten speakers will take part in
the commencement Oratory. These
are W. B. Ladue and Miss Margaret
Sewall salutatorian, and valedictorian
by virtue of scholarship. The other
orators will be Arthur r. Giddings
Henry Johnson, O. L. Triggs, K. G.
BabcOck, Leslie Moffelt, Gratia Con n
tryman. E. j. Babcock and Ada Smith.
After the graduating exercises the
commencement dinner will come, and
at in the evening the festivities of the
week will close with the customary
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