The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-15
COMMENCEMENT NEAR
UNIVERSITY PREPARING FOR THE
 OCCASION.
The Academic Senior Class to Consist of Twenty-nine Members, Nfenteen Men and Ten Women-Much
 Work Ahead.

| The commencement season approaches, and everybody is busily engaged In an effort to do the vast amount or work that must be finished before that date. The final examinations will begin Friday. May 1s. The examinations for members of the senior class will begin about one week in advance of the reg ular finals.
 The academic senior class will com sist of twenty-nine members; nineteen men and ten women. There will be two applicants for the degree of Ciy- law classes will have twenty three members, all men. The department of medicine and pharmacy located at ty-one were graduated in medicine and seven in pharmacy. Combining the senior classes in the several depart | ments. and including the five grad. will be seen that the total number of graduates will be ninety-seven. The commencement sermon will be preached sunday a May 2sts, ts. by cdnri pr; Street Methodist Church. Montgomery. Ala. Monday, May 29. will be Alum Day soeety Tns suSnH1s @ bn meesns sss of a the o'clock, and the oration will be deliv- will take place at o'clock. and the m. The alumni orator has not yet been announced. Tuesday, May 30, will be commencement day. The exer- cises of that day will consist of ora class, selected at a preliminary con- test; a baccalaureate address by Chan | celler Walter B. Hill of the University of Georgia; and the conferring of de- gress by the President of the Univer- | sity.
 The junior contest in oratory for the the oT, Lomax prize VII take place on much good material in the junior class, and the contest promises to be more intersssting lters than ,q usual; This prize is lished by the late Hon. Tennent Lo- max, who was an alumnus and for a Ig Ilong time a member of the Board of The students generally are showing greater interest in oratory than has bsen De; manifested for many years. The membership in the Southern Inter-Col- legiate Oratorial Association. and will %b,c5 Ss 5sePrenssnted P3ans5 e5ao at the next event of Virginia during next month.
 Friday. May 5, has been decided up- Sports as f,ed M dey se All kinds of S thse has come to be quite a feature of Uni t9wnpeopie look forward to 1t with
 The prospect for a large attendance at the next session of the University summer School for Teachers is encour- ptrIimarily for teachers, it is open to 6thers; 6a f and many of the courses will | pc Iound to be attractive to all peo- times intellectually. The session wifi begin June 16. and continue six weeks. Many of the most noted educators of lnstructors and lecturers.
 th Id through the summer school and work the ne i9srty teachers "a institute | lnto closer touch with the of6ar school interests of the state Presil fent fht ADercrombie or somo member Of ute in some county each week. some times two or three institutes are at- tended in one week.
 % Most or the professors who do not accept work in the summer school VIII spend the vacation in study at Other a1 9niversities. pr. G. c. Brow languages and Mrs. Brownell. will take European trip. Dr. John Y. GraS ham of the Department of Biology, VIII VIII Isoo go to Germany. Mrs. Graham H. Foster. of the Department of Ger man, will probably go to the Universi- | " or Chicago. where he spent last sumner; sun nana Professor M. c. Burke! of leave of absence for the purpose of studying at a German University. pr. E. A. Smith, of the Department of Geology' VIII spend his summer as | |, l The authorities are concerned about providing material equipment for the next session. If the present rate of increase In enrolment should continue, 1t Will be difficult to accommodate ali who come. Every room in the dormi- tories has been occupied this year. The lecture rooms have also been
 The Alabama Society of the Colonial Danes of America will give again this year the cash prize of $50 for the best essay by member of the senior class | on some subject pertaining to colonial history. This prize was won last wear by Mir. James H. Chapman of Jackson, Ala.
 The catalogue for 1905 is now ready. It gives the following summary of en- rollment for the session.: Officers of Government and Instruction, 52. Stu dents, Academic Department graduates, S. I; seniors; fndor 20; juniors, 45 s0phomoFes, cates, 9; total 241. Engineering De- partment, fifth year, 9; fourth year, 4; 4sar third yT' gear ?; second year, 8; first partment of Medicine. graduates, 4; seniors, S5; juniors. 29; sophomores, 43; freshmen, S9; total, 150. Department % 5unors iS tota ss ssm%er ssmi8rs school enrolment. 1904, 351; net total in all departments and schools. SPA.
 President Abercrmobie will repre-
 
 meeting of the Southern Educational Conference. which will be held at Columbia, S. C., April 26-2S. He will deliver an adress on School Super vision"
 Hill Ferguson of Birmingham, who is president of the Society of the Alumni, was a welcome visitor at the Univer- slty this week: He graduated with l the class of 1896.
 The friends of Peter B. Searcy, who was for several years a student at the | University, will be glad to know that he has secured position on The Advertiser staff as cartoonist. MT. Searcy is an artist of no mean ability, having spent some time in New York In preparation for his work
 Jesse v. Boyles, of ThomasviIle, Ala, member of the senior law class, has been selected to represent the Uni versity at the Trl-State OratoricaI contest, to be held at Gulfport, Miss, in July. The best speaker will be awarded $50 medal and will receive all of his travelling expenses.
 The University Athletic Association has secured as football coach for next season. John W. Levanworth of Yale University. MT. Levanworth made his Y last season, playing in the back | field. His preparatory training was received at Andover Academy. He