The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-22
ATTACK AND REPULSE.
A Warlike Feature in Oxford
Commencement Pro-
gram.
gram.
Especial to News and Observer


oxford, N. c., May 21.-The COM
mencement exercises of the Horner Mili-
tary School will take place on the 27th
2Sth and 10Th Of this month. On We'd
nesday the field day exercises will come
off and athletic contests, fourteen IN
number, will be engaged in between the
track teams of the companies. The win
ming cadet in each of these contests will
be awarded a gold medal Wednesday
evening the corps will give a german in
the assembly hall, music by a string band
from Washington, ID. c., which orchestra
will furnish music at all the functions OF
the week On Thursday morning begin
the exercises of Military Day. At $3.50
the competitive drill between the compan-
les for the colors will take place At 10:30
Will be held the contest for the best
drilled cadet of the battalion in the man
ual Of arms. The winner of this distinc-
ton will also receive a gold medal At
4:30 p. M. a close order exhibition drill
viii be given by the battalion, after which
the cadet corps will be reviewed by Ad-
jutant General B. S. Register. At $50
D. m will begin the skirmish drill and
ON the offensive and the Granville Grays,
Of the State militia, on the defensive. In
this battle twenty-five rounds of artillery
from battery supported by the Granville
Grays, and one thousand rounds of infan-
try will be used. On the north side of the
campus for a distance of two hundred
feet a line of fortificatons has been con-
structed out of pine logs, and behind this
construction will be placed the artillery
guns, defended by the Oxford company
OF State troops. From the south side, at
a distance of three hundred yards the
battalion of cadets will deploy into line
Of skIrmishers and advance by rushes for
about two hundred yards, when the charge
will be made to within one hundred and
fifty feet of the enemy's guns. Then the
retreat will take place and the cadets will
retire by PUSHES back to their original
positions and the struggle win be over
The evening after the sham battle the
final exercises of the two literary societies
will take place, after which an address and
the presentation of the Horner Memorial
Medal will be made by Mr.. Alfred A.
Thompson, of Raleigh.
On Friday evening, May 18th. the cadet
corps viii give the final ball of the year.
As a new feature of the school an an
nual encampment has been introduced and
hereafter the last seven days of each
school year will be spent in camp at some
convenient place in this section of the
State For this year the corps will go in
to camp for three days in the Perry For
est, near Salem church.
All roads into oxford will give reduced
rates during commencement week.
The commencement exercises OF the
Class Of 1903 at Guilford College viii take
place on the twenty-sixth instant, at ten.
a. m, in Memorial Hall.
Commencement at Rutherford College
will be held on the 26th and 9th instants.
The program follows: Tuesday, May, 26th
II a. M: Annual sermon by Rev. G. H.
Detwiler, D. D., of Charlotte, N. c.; D.
M: destinations; p. m. orations
Wednesday, IL a. m: Literary address
by Rev. E. L. Balm, of Franklin, N c.;
p m; alumni address by Rev. ]. e.
Abernethy, of Waynesville ~ c.; D.
m: exercises by the young ladies'.
Rev. j. B. Tynes, of Roanoke, Va, will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon at Kit
trell College, Kittrell, N. c., on the cath
instant. On the 25th the address before
the literary societies will be by Prof
j. w Haigler, of Chattanooga, Tenn The
program also includes:
18th, 1920 a. M: Class day exercises
Normal OBJ; p. M: commencement
musical 9th: Field day and educational
II. B. Parks, of New York. 9th, p.
M: Cantata, Queen Esther. 2Sth, 1890
a. M. Commencement exercises; annual
address by Prof. H. t. Healing, of Phil
adelphia.