Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-06-06
Madison, June 2.


Commencement exercises at the
University of Wisconsin will begin
this year Sunday, June 16, with the
baccalaureate address by President
E. A. Birge given at o'clock in the
afternoon in the gymnasium of the
university armOry. In the same hall
the exercises will conclude Thursday
evening in the alumni reception and
ball. An unusual large number Of
students will graduate this year and
the commencement program promises
to be very attractive, particularly the
alumni exercises. Reunions and
alumni functions are coming to be the
features of commencement week.
This year reunions are to be held by
the classes of '56, 81. '66. rs. 81, SO,
'91 and 90. and from the number If
responses already received there will
be an unusually large attendance of
older graduates, as well as of more
recent ones.
Monday evening ex-Congressman w.
Bourke Cochran of New York will de-
liver the annual address before the
college of law in the gymnasium.
The same evening the college of
pharmacy will hold it's exercises in
German hall.
Tuesday will be class day. At 10:3
a. m. the ivy exercises of the gradual
ing class will be held on the upper
campus. At 2:30 p. m. the class day
exercises and presentation of the class
day memorial will occur in library
hall. The class play, presented by
members of the graduating class, will
be at the Fuller opera house in the
evening and at II p. m. the pipe of
peace ceremonies occur on the lower
campus.
She program of the senior class day
exercises has been announced. 1t Will
be as follows: Glass day grafton, L.
T. O'Brien; class history, E. B. Mum
ford and Miss Marie G. Kohler; ivy
grafton, Clarence j. White; ivy ole,
S. A. Hurlbut; class mementoes.
Frances M. Wilcox and Robert g.
knott; Farewell to buildings, A. V.
Smith; farewell to faculty, P. w. T..
Boehm; farewell to underclassmen, H..
o. Sargent; junior response, Harry L..
James; class prophesy, Florence J.
Ketchum and Arthur A. Baldwin;
presentation of class memorial, Harry
e. Bradley.
Wednesday is alumni day The an
nual business meeting of the alumni
association will be held in the fore
noon in university hall and at l
o'clock the alumni dinner will be given
in armory hall. President Charles
J. Harding of Chicago, of the class
of rs, will act as postmaster and
well known alumni will respond to
toasts. At 4 o'clock an open air con-
cert will be given on the upper campus
by the university band and at
O'Clock the commencement concert by
the school of music occurs in library
hall. The various university buildings
will be open to the public on this day
and in the evening the observatory
Thursday is graduating day. At
8 o'clock the usual university pro
CesSiOn will be held from the upper
campus, the graduating exercises Le-
ing held at 9:30 in the armory. In the
afternoon from 4 to 6 President ana
Mrs. Birge give a reception to the
alumni and other friends of the uni
yersity and the festivities of the week
eliminate in the alumni ball in the
evening
At Wisconsin Academy.
commencement exercises of the
Wisconsin academy will be held in
the Unitarian church next Friday
evening. A number of the young
men graduating will give orations
and two of the girls essays.