The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1904-09-17

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" hich before tie war was ALWAYS
held i'm December, the session
opening in January as from the
beginning. Since the Legislature
was in session in December, and
there was great pride of State
and devotion to the State College,
most OF The legislators being
alumni, the commencement was
always a great State function. the
legislature attending i'm body
along with the Judges and other
officers Of State. The semi-cen
tennial celebration was thus a
great commencement occasion, at
which DR. James Ii ThornwelI,
as President, addressed the grad.
ua,ing class, and James l. Petit.
gru was centennial orator. How
inspiring to every student whose
fortune il was to be in the Col.
lego at that time
II so happens that, the time of
meeting of the legislature having
been changed by the Constitution
of 1895, and the second Tuesday
in January, 1905, falling on the
lOth day, the actual centennial
day OF the opening OF the College
Will witness very much the same
scene characteristic of the ante
heilum commencements of the
South Carolina College: the leg,
islature will be present in the
capital and can attend the cele.
brailon in body, with Judges
and State officers, as in the DAYS
OF old. Thus the ceremonies will
be the most impressive ever wit.
messed by this generation of South
Carolinians Truly it will be a
privilege to he a student of the
South Carolina College in the ses.
sion of 1904-5.
The universities and colleges
OF the United States, and es
pecial!y the colleges and schools
within The State, will be invited
TO send representatives., and all
living alumni will be expected TO
be present. From New York,
Hugh Garden, DR.. Wylle, w. A.
Barber, | l.. Wi,hers, and others;
from Texas, ID +. Houston, Presi.
dent of the Agricultural College :;
from Mississippi, 7. p. Bailey,
Professor OF Ethnology in the
State University from Alabama,
Charles II. Barnwell, Professor
of English in the State Univer-
sity from North Carolina, W.
Coker. Professor Of Botany in the
State University; from Virginia,
Professors Davidson, pritchard
and the McBrydes-these and
many more whose eminence in
other states attests the worth Of
the college since the war.
The exercises will continue
through Sunday, Monday and
Tuesday, January Sth to 10Th.
On Sunday there will be a cen.
tenmal sermon in the morning
by the college chaplain, and the
academic sermon in ,the evening
by the Rev. John A. Rice, d d..
a native of Colleton county and
a graduate of the class of 1885,
now pastor of The First Methodist
church, of Montgomery, Ala.
Monday, at IL a. m, there will
be welcoming addresses by the
president of the college, the gov
ernor of the State and the mayor
of Columbia, with designated re-
sponses by invited guests. At
+ T. m. the alumni Will hold
their centennial meeting. At
s p. m. will be the celebration of
the Claricsophic and Euphradian
societies, oralions by alumni
chosen by the societies. For the
Great Day, the program is as
follows:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1905.
l0:3O u. m.-Acade,nic and
civic procession from the College
Library to the Columbia Theater.
11:OO a. m.-Centennial Ode;
Commemorative address on "The
Historic Significance of the South
Carolina College," by ex-Aitor-
ncy General Leroy f. Youmans
of the class of 1852.
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