The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-02-18
STUDENTS In IHEPARADE
Three Thousand Expected to March
on Inauguration Day.
Undergraduates Not Sent by Their
Colleges as Delegates VIII As
sembfe After Reaching the City
A Movement 10 Organize
National INTERCOLLEGIATE Club.

One of the many features Of the inau-
gural parade will be the delegations of
students of colleges and universities
throughout the country. Assurances that
delegations will attend have been received
from many Of the leading Institutions of
learning by Wallace Donald Mclean,
the Chairman of the intercollegiate Com
mittee, and it is expected that there VIII
be over 5000 undergraduates in line on
March l.
Many college men from Eastern col
leges will attend the indoor athletic meet
of Georgetown University at Convention
Hall on Saturday March 2, and will Eill
two birds with one stone, so to speak, by
remaining to witness the inaugural ceTe
monies on the following Monday.
An intercollegiate reception will be held
at Carroll Institute Hall on Tuesday.
March 5. AT this meeting the question
of the formation of a national intercol-
legiate club Will be broached. a number
of college men are interested in the move
ment and the reception is held with view
TO determining the practibility OF such an
enterprise. a number of speakers of Da-
tional reputation will be heard. The ar
rangements for the affair are in the hands
of John Hadley Dovle. graduate of
Georgetown University.
Headquarters Tor the students will be
secured at an early date. A register for
the names of the students and their col
leges and other information. is being pre-
pared. and will be placed at headquarters
when selected. Each of the students will
be requested TO enscribe his name therein,
and the register viii be kept as memorial
Of the occasion.
The representatives of Princeton Col
lege, who will march in the inaugural
parade, will form The personal escort of
Mr.. Mclean. who will be the marshal of
the collegiate division of the Civic Grand
Division. Princeton will send no dele
cation to the Inauguration, but a great
number of its students Will attend as in
divi9uals. fhey will be organized when in
the city TO represent their institution.
Their college colors OF orange and black
Will be conspicuous and readily recognized
by its friends and graduates. 1t is prob
able that about one hundred men from the
college will parade, and it is expected that
the Continental Guard uniform will be
worn. the college was chartered in 1746.
From the data already in the hands of
the intercollegiate Committee. the chair
man mas estimated that at least $500 col
lege students will be in the college di-
vision of the inaugural parade on March
4. About twenty-four institutions have
notified this committee that their under
graduates will be represented by delega
tions, or that a fair number OF their stu
dents will attend the inauguration as IN
dividuals.
Local institutions are exhibiting great |
enthusiasm, and considerable rivalry ex-
lists between the Columbian University /
and the Georgetown College as to which
will have the greater number of repre-
,sentatiyes in line, and which will make /
the best appearance and the most noise.
Special uniforms for the occasion are be-
ing made, and new college yells are under
rehearsal. Beside these two institutions
three other local colleges will be in line
the National University. Gallaudet Col
lege, and the United States College Of
Veterinary Surgeons. The mute students |
from Gsllaudet have 4 college yell, which I
they propose to perpetrate ou March 4, |
and which should be one of the mCst dis /
tinctive features of the parade.
The students from Columbian Col
lege viii parade in caps and gowns
Streamers OF orange and blue will be fas-
tened to the gowns, and college banner {
Will be carried in the front rank of the
delegation. Columbian expects to furnish /
their charter is 1921, and their position
IN line Will be ahead Of any college whose
original charter bears a later date
Adolph E. l. Johnson, of the jurispru-
dence department, who is chairman of
the students committee on arrange
ments, will probably be in command dur
ing the parade. They will have their own
hand.
Georgetown College students expect to
have about 400 undergraduates take part
in the parade. The boys have decided to
wear broad sashes of the college colors.
blue and grey, pinned to the shoulders
with rosettes. Streamers of college col
ors or American flags will be carried on
the ends of canes. The various post
graduate departments will wear their de-
partment colors and will also carry ban
ners. James p. B. Duffy will be in COM
mand. Their charter, which is dated 1888.
VIII give them place well forward in
the college division.
The National University has not yet
perfected arrangements. Probably 100
nien will be in line
- Gallaudet will have seyenty-five men in !
line They will be costumed with sashes
OF bul. snd blue. the college colors /and 1
viii wear derby hats. Each student will /
carry a small banner Of blue and bun
Several athletic trophies and banners
"rested in football and field contests
from other colleges viii be borne in front
of their line. George C. W. Andree will
be in command. Gallaudets charter is
dated 1864
About seventy-fve students will form
the quota from the United States Col
lege OF Veterinary Surgeons. The college
was incorporated in 1894 Robert W.
Summers is chairman of the students
association which is now making arrange
ments for the event.
The West Virginia Conference Seminary
of Buckhannon is the largest institution
under the Methodist Episcopal church di-
rection in the world and the only one in
its State. They will have $50 students in
line at the inauguration. The president
of the seminary. John Wier is one of the
strongest advocates OF the intercollegiate
parade that has communicated with The
committee. Buglers Will accompany the
full cadet corps.
From the University of West Virginia
the full cadet corps OF 150 men will parade.
Six buglers will accompany the delegation.
The cadets viii be costumed In the cadet
uniform Of cadet grey with blue cadet