The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-05
COLONEL GORGAS ID |. SPEAK AT SEWANEE
Will Deliver Commencement Grafton Next. Thursday
WEEKS PROGRAMME
Largest Commencement in History of College Being Planned by Facul- ty, Officials and Alumni.
 Are Many Changes

Attracted by the faculty announce ment that Col. William Gorgas of the Panama canal zone and an alumnus of sewanee is to make the commencement address at Sewanee and the other fea- lures during commencement week, be- ginning tomorrow. several Birmingham people will visit that mountain city. The programme for Sewanee's com mencement was given out here yester- day through the local alumni. accom- panied by an additional announcement from Rev. w. T. Claiborne. one of the workers for the endowment fund for that institution.
 The statement of Mir Claiborne fol- lows:
 To Break Records
 Tt Is designed this year to have the largest commencement of the univer- sity of the south which has ever been held at Sewanee. From almost every state in the union there will assemble at Sewanee from June to IS trus- tees, alumni and friends of the insti- tuition, among them being numbered many of the most prominent educators of the country. During the past two years sewanee has begun a new life. aroused throughout the south in the institution which. to use the words of President Schurman of Cornell, on a re- cent visit here stands for the funda : mentals.' Not only has this renewed interest been observed in the south Robert c. ogden of New York has spoken enthusiastically of Sewanee and its Ideals J. Pierpont Morgan has promised the institution s150, 900 toward its much needed and slowly accumu- lating endowment. Particularly note worthy at this commencement will be the presence of her old and deeply hon. ored alumnus, Col. William Gorgas. LI.. D., NJ D., D. Sc., who Is in charge of the canal zone and to whom to employ the language of President Taft, the building of the Panama canal was di- rectly due. Colonel Gorgas will deliver the commencement oration on Thurs day, June IS, at which exercises is expected the largest gathering of well known southern men ever seen on the mountain.
 Trustees to Attend
 "The trustees from 21 Episcopal dio- ceses throughout the south will as semble on Saturday, June &. After var ious exercises of the Sewanee Military academy on that afternoon and the con test for the Knight Reclamation medal in the evening the commencement ser mon will be delivered at II o'clock on Sunday morning in the great Gothic chapel of the university by the Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins, D. D., of Philadel-
 
 the United States. On Monday the com mencement exercises of the Sewanee Military academy will be held with the ribbon society german in the evening. Tuesday will be marked by a baseball game between the faculty and the se- nior class, to be followed successively by the vice chancellor's reception and the class of 1912 banquet. On Wednes- day night occurs the alumni banquet and on Thursday morning the com mencement exercises of the university, the week of gayety concluding with the great university hop In the evening.
 Are Many Changes
 "Visitors to Sewanee this year will be impressed by many changes. The chapel and grounds have been com pletely transformed and the velvet turf amid the noble trees presents the ap- pearance of an English park. An army of workmen is engaged In the erection of great science hall. the gift of An drew Carnegie. The splendid fireproof hospital, designed not only for the sick among the university's memb but also for those among the mountaineers, is just completed. A magnificent recep- tion and common room, designed after the model of the English universities. has just been completed and is perfect in every appointment. The Civic league has been hard at work throughout the year and the evidence of its labors is shown on every street and lawn. AL together 1t will be a new Sewanee to which this great gathering is to as semble and the prospects for the future are of the brightest"