The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-07
DATE HAS BEEN FIXED FOR MAY
30 TO JUNE 2.
Business Meeting of the Alumni at
Oxford Next Monday For the Pur-
pose of Getting Together Data Re-
garding Former Students.
Daily News Special.

JACKSON, Miss, April 7.-Hon W.
Calvin Wells, Jr., president of the
alumni association of the University
of Mississippi has retrned from the
university, where he held a conference
with the other officers and members
of the executive committee to arrange
the dates and some of the details for
the Homecoming" of the alumni and
! former students.
The dates have been fixed at May
80 and 81 and June l and 2. Most
| of the features will be on Monday, |
May 81, that night being alumni night, |
when there will be some extensive eX-
| ercises, including orations, poems |
and essays. Chancellor Garland Lyell
of this city is the orator selected for
the occasion, and Col. James Gordon
of Okolona the poet.
There will be a business meeting
of the association on Monday for the
purpose of getting together all the
data and information possible in re
gard to former students, to be used
in the new historical catalogue, now
in course of preparation. During the
week there is to be a special reunion
of the class of '69, the members OF
which, at the time of their gradua-
ton, mutually agreed to meet once
| hnfr
meeting year, they will combine their
class meeting with the general home
coming. After forty years, however,
= there are but few of them left.
The usual alumni banquet will not
be given this year, but instead the
university authorities will give ban
quet on Tuesday night, in the big
university dining hall, which seats
400 people, at which the members of
the association and former students
will be guests. A tentative program
= has been prepared, which will be
2 given out as soon as it can be made
/ definite.
: Preparations are being made for
] much the largest crowd that has ever
e attended a similar event there, and
y for a peculiar reason this preparation
e has never before been possible, and
b never will be again.
l. The new dormitory, which it is ey-
d 2ected will be completed by that or
casion, is TO be used for the members
Of the association. who will come in
from all over the state, and meals
- will be served in the spacious hall
The dormitory, which is to cost $40,
0000, has 81 bedrooms, and is three
stories high. Besides this, the people
Of Oxford have agreed on this occa
sion to throw open their doors to thu
members and aid in the plan to make
this the most successful affair in tn
history of the university.
Heretofore visitors there on sucl
~ occasions have had to depend argel
il upon the limited hotel facilities 70
- accommodations, and owing to th
"a fact that after this year the new do
u mitory will be occupied by students
'l it will not again be available for sue
IN purpose.
Ut The commencement exercises wi
begin Sunday night, May 80, with
Ia sermon by Or. w. H. Leavell, {
he Houston, Tex. The baccalaureate N
in dress will be delivered on Tuesday
of June l, by United States Senate
George E. Chamberlain of Oregon,
former Mississippiar to about :
20. graduates. The exercises proper wi
be held on Wednesday, night. TT
& music for this event will he furnisho
by the university orchestra, wi
about twenty pieces.
& Among the distinguished perso
who will be there during the hon
coming days abe United Senator H.
hop Money, Judge Leroy Valiant, ch
justice of the supreme court of N
lber souri,, and Cal. James Gordon of o
Iona, all students at the univers
before the war
Col. Wells will shortly issue a
T., ter to members of the alumni a
COM citation and former students, cal
and attention to the Homecoming ev
hear the superior accommodations
Y go year over those of former events,
urging their attendance.