Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-06-12

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the University of Wisconsin will be-
gin on Friday, June IA, with the
commencement concert of the school
of music, and continues until We'd
nesday night, June 10. AS prelimi-
nary to the regular commencement
programme the university orchestra
has arranged to have given under
its auspices two open air perform
ances on the upper campus by the
Ben Greet Players on Thursday,
June Is; LAS You Like 1t" in the
afternoon, and "A midsummer
Nights Dream" with the Mendel-
sohn music by the university or
chestra in the evening. President
Van Hise will deliver the bacca-
laureate address on Sunday after
noon, June 16, taking as his subject
1.-The Attainment of Success" On
Monday the ivy exercises will be
held on the upper campus in the
morning, the class day exercises in
the afternoon, and the presentation
of the senior play, George AIDES
Just Out of College" at the Fuller
opera house in the evening, follow
ed by the pipe of peace ceremony
on the lower campus. Tuesday is
alumni day, with the annual
business meeting of the Alumni
association in the morning, the
alumni banquet at 1 o'clock, and the
alumni class reunions in the after
noon and evening. Wednesday
morning the commencement eXer-
cises will be held in the armory,
where 525 degrees will he Conferred,
Including 476 baccalaureate and 40
higher degrees. In the afternoon
an orchestral concert Will be given
in the armOrY, and later a reception
| to the alumni and friends of the
university at the home of President
Van Rise. The alumni reception
land promenade concert in the even
ling at the armory will proceed the
lalumni ball, the final event of the
commencement exercises. At the
ialumni banquet toasts will be given
| by number of graduates, includ-
ing Maj. Charles r. Evans, 81 dean
OF the law school of Grant Uni
versity; Elk Gov. w. D. Hoard, who
will speak for the regents; and Pres
lident Van Hise, 70, for the faculty.
A number of classes, including
those of '82, '97, and '02, are plan
ming to hold class reunions on
alumni day. The commencement
programme this year is particularly
representative of the student body.
as the orators and participants in
the various exercises include stud
ents from twenty three Wisconsin
cities, and from six cities in other
Estates. OF the students who will
deliver orations, appear in the caste
of the class play take some part in
the class day exercises, thirteen are
from Milwaukee, nine from Madi-
son, and one each from Fennimore,
Appleton, Mineral Point, Racine,
lOconomowoc, MenomOnie, Sheboy-
gan, Milton junction, Manawa,
Barron, Poynette, Waupaca, Lake
| Geneva, GAINESVILLE, Evansville,
West Salem, Rio, Eau Claire, Port
age, Kenosha, and Fountain City,
HIGH CHEESE SCORES.
The results of the first series OF
scoring contests for Wisconsin
cheese makers conducted by the
dairy school of the University OF
Wisconsin just announced show
lseventy-six entries of various kinds
of cheese, the general makeup, style,
and quality of which were excellent.
Among the entries were seventeen
| flats, forty one daises, three young
Americans, three long horns, two
prints, nine brick, and one limburg.
! er. The principal defects were old
or unclean milk favors, yeasty and
fermented whey fiavOrs, with some
what open but tough texture.
Cleaner milk is necessary to i'm
prove the quality of the cheese, as
an excellent quality cannot be made
when old or tainted milk is delivered
to the factory. The highest scores
for cheddar cheese were n. L. ROpp,
Wrightstown, 81. So; John Hoeppner
Marion, 81. Al; HI. w. Melchert, Sey
mour, 97.16; E. j. Harder, Hilbert
81. For brick cheese the high
scores were E. r. Herbert, Juneau
95. SO; C. F. Brinkman, Coon Valley
95. 33; c.. Anderegg, Lacrosse, 95.
CHRIS. Beller, Mt. Horeb, the only
entry in the limburger class, re
ceived a score of 1886. The aver
age score for cheddar cheese was
93.9, and the lowest score 88. 90