Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-06-06
c. ". i. EXERCISES
Commencement Week Begins
With BaccaIaureate Sermon.
PRIZE DEBATE TONIGHT
Exhibit of Drawings and Designs by
Architectural Students-Senior
Glass Night Tomorrow.

Students members Of the faculty,
alumni and other friends of the George
Washington University, visited the eN-
hibit of the division of architecture which
was opened i'm the west hall of university
building early this morning. 1t will re-
main open to the public until Thursday
evening. The walls of the hall are COW
cred with drawings and designs of all
kinds made by the students of architect
ure of the department of arts and
sciences. The exhibit includes free hand
drawings. architectural drawings and de-
signs, shades. shadows and prospectives,
drawings from the antique, drawings
from life and water colors. Practicins
arci fleets who have seen the exhibit
declare that it is Il marked credit to the
instruction given by the university.
Members of the Columbian and Need
ham Debating societies are much in
terested in the outcome Of the prize
debate, which will be held this even
ing. beginning al o'clock, in the uni
verSity hall. While the members of
the debating societies are cheering
their respective champions the stu
dents of the senior medical class will
be gathered around the banquet table
at Rauscher'S with the members of the
medical faculty as their guests.
Glass Exercises Tomorrow.
Class exercises of the senior class of
the College of Arts and Sciences will
be held at University Hall tomorrow
evening, beginning at S o'clock. At
the same time the members of the law
school will celebrate claw class night"
The eighty-ninth annual commencement
exercises of the university will be held
at the BelascO Theater Wednesday MORN
ing. beginning at 1880 o'clock. The cam
dGateS for degrees. members of the fac
uity and trustees of the university, in
academic dress, will assemble at the uni
versitv at $50 o'clock to march to the
theater. The university procession will
start at 1915 o'clock. The annual adj
will precede the comforting of degrees.
At l O'Clock Wednesday there will be
meeting of the trustees of the uni
versity, and in the evening the gradua
place.
The baccalaureate service of the uni
versty was held yesterday afternoon at
ST. Johns Church. Headed by the presi-
dent of the university. members of the
faculty, the graduates of the university,
all in academic robes, including twelve
co-eds, marched from the university to
the church. Nearly eighty graduates of
the academic college and the schools OF
law and medicine attended the church
and heard the baccalaureate sermon of
Rev DR.. Roland Cotton Smith. The pro-
cession moved slowly UP II street in a
drizzling rain, past a long line of specta-
tors.
After a service of prayer. with inspiring
anthems by the choir boys of st. Johns,
DR.. Smith delivered the baccalaureate,
which made a deep impression upon the
graduates.
DR.. Smiths Sermon.
r:, for +av+ ucomnasc tho World
They That Dwell Therein" Dr. Smith
said that the age is splendidly scientific.
but too coldly analytical, with tendency
to dissect rather than to build
The use of MAPS he said, lis in part
RESPONSIBLE for the evils of SectiOnalism
ana provinc,alsm. The daily use of maps
by children encourages the prejudices
We are already prone to have
'"They take away the poetry. they kill
the Imagination and prevent that concep-
ton of the infinite which comes so read
lily with the realization of a round world.
swinging in it's orbit.
"Selfishness anu prejudice grow out of
the map idea-believe you are the center
of the great round world instead of the
center of your little fiat state or coun-
try. Then you will not know class pref
udice and sectionalism will be stranger
Young men and women, learn that the
stars are beautiful before you try to find
out what they are made of. You have
now rounded out one of the circles of
your life, and the great arc Of the future
lies before you.
Build your round world within you
with poetry, imaginaton-which is the
first toward creatiOn-and the stuff that
dreams are made OF. Then you can be
the >eator of your own material world,
and you will know happiness.
IF YOU have the globe sense of rounded
beauty you will build this world beauti-
full. You should be able to spell synthesis
before you learn to spell analysis. Live
first in world of poetry. Give rein to
your ina gination. Thus will mere ma
:erialism be stamped out and your crea-
ton will be beautiful"
After the service the students marched
in procession back to the university.