The Columbus weekly dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 1902-1905, 1906-05-31
COLLEGE TO CLOSE
EXERCISES INCIDENTAL TO CLOS
ING OF TWENTY-FIRST SES-
SION OF L. L. x c. WILL
BEGIN ON JUNE o.
Program Includes Laying OF Corner
Stone OF Science Hall, Baccalau-
reate Address and Com
mencement Sermon.

annual session of the Industrial Inst1-
tute and College will begin on Sat
urday. June 8, and will continue for
four days The commencement exer-
cises will be inaugurated at $50
o'clock on Saturday night, June 3, at
which time there will be concert in
the college chapel. At II O'Clock on
Sunday morning the commencement
sermon will be delivered by Right
Rev. Theodore Bratton, Bishop of the
Mississippi Diocese of the Episcopal
church, who will also deliver the an
nual sermon before the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association OF the
college at $50 o'clock on Sunday
evening. On Monday morning the
corner stone of the Science Hall,
which is being erected at the college,
will be laid. The laying of the cor
ner stone will be under the auspices
of the Masons, the ceremony inciden-
tai thereto being conducted by Grand
Master Charles Blum, of Shelby, Miss.
The exercises will come to a final
close at o o'clock Tuesday morning,
at which time the baccalaureate adj
dress will be delivered by Hon. Adam
Byrd. of Philadelphia, Miss
The Industrial Institute and Col
Iege is recognized as one of the great
est educational institutions of the
country, and in making up the pro-
gram for commencement President
Kincannon has selected men of rep
ntation and ability to address the
students, and their addresses will be
listened to with pleasure and profit
not only by the students and mem
bers of the faculty, but by the public
at large. Hon. Adam Byrd, who is
to deliver the haccalaureate address,
is not unknown to the people of Co
lumbuS He was for several years
chancellor of the district in which
Lowndes county is located and those
who are acquainted with him know
him 10 be d close student, a profound |
thinker and forcefuI speaker. Bish- |
op Bratton, who is to deliver the com |
mencement sermon, is recognized as
one of the most eminent divines in |
the South. He is not only a refined |
Christian gentleman, but he is bril- |
liant scholar, and there is no one bet /
ter qualified than he TO deliver ser I
mon TO a class of young ladies who |
have finished their studies and are /
just about TO enter upon their life's
work
1t is an old, old story 10 relate the
progress and prosperity of the Indus
trial Institute and College, but it is
a story which it is pleasant to relate
and which Is read with qualification
by every admirer of the college and
every true friend of education
throughout the State Under the able
management of President Kincannon,
the institution has grown to magnif-
cent proportions. Mr.. Kincannon.
however. is not willing to rest upon /,
his laurels, but is making a conscien-
tious, persistent and emiBently sue
cussful effort to enlarge the institu-
tion and broaden its field of useful
ness. With the assistance of the To-
cal representatives and other infiuen-
tiaI friends of the institution, Mr..
kincannon was enabled to secure a
generous appropriation from the leg
islature at its recent session, and the
coming summer will witness extensive
at the college. Among !.
the new buildings to be erected are a :
science hall, and a boiler house, and
the grounds surrounding the college
will be greatly beautified and improv- :.
ed, among the improvements being
system of cement walks.
These walks have long been needed,
and they will add greatly to the APP
the comfort and pleasure of the stu
dents in walking from one building
to another.
In the noble work which he has ac-
on behalf of the young T
of Mississippi, Mr.. Kincannon
is ably assisted by splendid corps of >
officers and teachers. Every member
Of the faculty labors earnestly and
and in Maj Waddell,
the secretary and treasurer, the pre-
Ident has specially efficient assist @
ant and co-worker. The financial af- o
fairs of the institution are practically 3
entirely in Maj. Waddell's hands, and
the careful and accurate manner inl
which they are administered reflects =
much credit upon ths4 conscientious
3fdcial and urbane gentleman. II