The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-12
Baccalaureate Sermon to Be
Preached by DR.. Wallace in
Chapel Tonight.
CAP AND GOWN TO BE WORN
President Boatwright Issues List
OF Graduates-Program for
Week.

Significantly ringing out the old,
ringing in the new the chapel bell at
Richmond College will tonight sum-
mon town and gown to one of tho
last. baccalaureate sermons to be
preached on the venerable campus
which must soon give way to the new
college city shortly to rise UP at
Westhampton. Not many more grad
yates can be enrolled on the rosters OF
the college before the new Richmond
College will drink of the fountain of
golden youth and carry the thread of
its honorable record of high achieve
ment unbroken to its new and beau
tiful homestead
This is commencement week and
the baccalaureate sermon tonight at
S:15 o'clock in the chapel of the col
| lese Is to be delivered by Rev. o. G. S.
| Wallace, ID. D.. pastor of the First
Baptist Church of Baltimore. Not only
| in the councils of his congregation is
DR.. Wallace known as a public speak
! err of first eminence. but such is his
reputation throughout this country.
The authorities of the college count
| themselves fortunate in securing DIR.
Wallace as the preacher for this occa-
sion.
In Cap and Gown.
For the first time in the history OF
the institution. the students faculty
and trustees Will appear in cap and
gown The baccalaureate sermon and
the day Of commencement are of equal
dignity as academic events, so to-
| night the official participants in the
| commencement will wear their most
ceremonial robes in honor of the occa.
sion. The royal purple of the doctors
! of divinity will mingle With the blue
II and fhe white ha rlo nf y.
bachelors and masters and othors.
| Glass Day comes tomorrow night al
S:15 o'clock This will represent the
| lighter side OF commencement. and
orations and historians will make
| merry and glad tile time. The class is
very large this year, there being
| twenty-six candidates for the b. A.
| degree, one for NJ. A.. four for B. S..
and seventeen for b. i.
Alumni Day is Tuesday, and the
sons-and daughters-of the college
will be here then, focking from ham
let and city, 10 do honor to their
alma mater. Richmond College EN-.
phasizes in every possible way the
fact that the alumnus. no matter how
long ago he left the college, is stlll
part and a welcome part of 1t now.
The annual dinner of the Society OF
the Alumni comes in Thomas Hall at
$50 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon.
There will take place, just before the
dinner. reunions of the classes of 1860
1855, 1900 and 1905, these classes hav-
ing graduated fifty, twenty-five, ten
and five years ago. respectively.
AT the annual dinner of the Society
! OF the Alumni many speeches will be
made, some OF "Reminiscences, some oil
| prophecy, and it is safe to say tina,
| the newer Richmond College will have
| lot said about 1t at this time.
Just a little bit earlier on the same
| day the alumnae and women students
of the college will tender luncheon
4, at Guth's 10 the women graduates O.
| 1910. This vii! take place at A. TIL,
I alumnae are showing their fair shar,
of interest in college activities, as th
event shows
In especial honor of the alumni an,
alumnae, the college dramatic clu
4 will present THE Two Gentlemen o
Verona" at SIS Tuesday night, som
time ago the club produced this ia
nous play and was most successful i
1t. The "old grads will be there /
large numbers.
The annual meeting of the boar
of trustees comes at IL A. NJ. Tuesday
commencement Wednesday.
Commencement day is Wednesda,
The academic procession begins til
exercises of the morning at II O'CLOCK
| The faculty. trustees and graduating
classes Will march into the chape
clad in cap and gown. This is tn
first year that the trustees hav
) donned the gown, so that the process
sion Will have unusual interest. TIL