Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-13
IOWA COLLEGE IN MIDST OF AN.
NUAL COMMENCEMENT WITH
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
LEADING FEATURES OF
FIVE STRENUOUS DAYS
Graduating Exercises of Academy Stu
dents and Literary Societies of COL
Iese, Campus Play. Strong Addresses,
ForeefuI Baccalaureate Sermon, Mu-
steal Treats, and Alumni Dinner.
Special to Times-Republican.


Grinnell, June 13.-Commencement is
in full blast for Iowa College Every
train is bringing alumni and visitors
for the annual gathering. Senior chapel
on Friday morning was the opening.
with strong message from President
Main. On Friday afternoon very in
teresting graduation exercises took
place for the academy students; also
graduation from the literary societies
Of the college. In the evening came
the campus play, Les Remanesques,"
Principal Horns reception and the an
nual senior "pow-wow' on Ward field.
Saturday afternoon saw the Hyde
contest in oratory, in which Everett
S. Turner, IL, of the Chrestomathia
Society, won first prize. with the sub
ject The True Philosophy of Ma
tionahsm," and Edgar Cupp, II, won
second prize with the Grafton, Our
Colonial Policy" The other speakers
were as follows: Bruce s. Goss. Equal
Suffrage; Roscoe Apologize. THE
Equal Chance: Reuben G. Wolf, The
Challenge OF the Foreign Field; Sum
ner D. Quarton, Hammer and Anvil
Prof ]. D. Stops was chairman OF
the meeting and Superintendent Eu-
gene Henely and W. c. Rayourn, of
Grinnell, and Glenn Clark. of Aledo, H..
were the judges. The first prize was
$50 and the second $40. They are given
for the best English orations. thought
composition and delivery being taken
into full consideration. There is much
rivalry, hat
malta winning the first this year and
Grinnell Institute the second
President George A Gates. of Fiske
University. at Nashville, Tenn. arrived
on Saturday afternoon and with him
the quartet of Fiske University Jubilee
Singers. and Herrick chapel was
crowded that evening TO listen to the
negro melodies
Yesterday morning the large Congre- |
gational church was filed to an over
flow for the accalaureate exercises |
The scarlet and black college colors
were in evidence everywhere and the |
college vesper choir Of some fifty |
voices wore the scarlet and black vest |
ments. President Gates gave the
prayer and President Main, in what |
many say was the strongest baccalau- |
reate he ever gave, urged the grad |
yates before him TO find their own |
true selves" and to work along the |
strongest lines leading from that CEN |
ter. At o'clock, p. m, the association |
building was crowded with the attend |
ants upon the alumni prayer meeting |
At 4:45 promptly the doors of Her
rick chapel were closed upon a con- /
gregation that filed all the seats, and |
the vesper service presenting Gounod's
Mass of st. Cecilia" was given.
In the evening at the Congregational {
church the presidents Of the Young |
Women's Christian Associations took
charge of the meeting. The Fisk .
jubilee Quartet furnished the music; /
Prof. E. A. Steiner gave the prayer and
President George White, of Anatolia /
address on the topic" Young /
Turkey and Young Christians" In the I
course of his remarks he mentioned the
fact that Lyman Cady, of the present
class Of Iowa College, goes
this summer to work in Anatolia Col
lege. or a three years engagement.
Today witnesses the annual meeting
If the board of trustees. the class day
in the chapel in the morn
ng and on the campus in the after
noon. and the senior play. Twelfth
Night" at the Colonial theater in the
evening
On Tuesday will be held the Hill
contest in extemporaneous speaking
and sight singing in the chapel, at
J: 80; the alumni dinner and business
Meeting on the campus, beginning at
2; the alumni-varsity baseball game
N Ward field at $50; the 10th ami
-erasary of the founding of the Grin
iell Institute Society banquet at Rand
at $50; the campus con-
.ert at I, by the Girls GIee Club of the
College, and the Phi Beta Kappa ad-
lress, beginning at 8 O'Clock in the
hapel.