The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-11
VERY BUSY DAYS
AT UNIVERSITY
Students Preparing for Midycar
Examinations, Which Begin
Wednesday.
THEN EASTER FESTIVITIES
Plans to Make 1913 Commence
mcnt Best i'll Many
Years.

Charlottesville. Va, March 10--These
are busy days and nights Mt the Uni
versity of Virginia. The students went
| several hundred strong to Washington
| last Tuesday morning at dawn on
special train to help inaugurate the
university's most distinguished alum
nus as President of the United States.
| They had q strenuous, though a happy
| time and returned Wednesday TO plunge
! into the homo stretch of the second
term.
Now they are busy getting ready for
the midyear examinations. which begin
| Wednesday morning. These examina-
tons are In some respects the crucial
ones. for In n large measure they de-
termine the fate of many candidate
for houors and degrees. The final tests
remain. but to Il considerable degree
the midyear ordeal is vitality important
in presaging the final verdict.
There is good reason to believe that
the present student body has never
been surpassed in point Of earnestness
and close application to study. Presi
dent Alderman paid high tribute last
June to the work and spirit OF the stu
dents last session, and there is strong
evidence that he will be able to go
even further in praise OF the present
body of young men at the university.
the largest in the history OF the insti-
tuition.
After the examinations will come n
brief respite. though not n recess. The
Easter festivities this year will have
all the charm and gayety of those OF
! former sessions. There will be dances
and concerts of many descriptions and
a week of social activity.
/ Following Easter week the third
and last term will begin in earnest A
number OF prospective graduates OF
the medical school have already taken
the New York State board eXamIna-
/ tons looking to appointments In the
| leading hospitals of the metropolis
where many Virginia men have at
/ tanned distinction. The graduating
class promises to be an unusually large
one.
commencement this wear will begin
later than usual. The exercises will
extend from June Is TO is. inclusive.
1t bids fair To be the Invest and iolliest
commencement In many years. The
class OF 1908 is leading the way in an
effort 10 bring back to the closing
days or the academic year tho old
| finals spirit Lewis d. Crenshaw, OF
New York. vice president of the class.
is here looking after preliminary ar
engagements for the celebration. \
program of great novelty and variety
is being prepared. In addition TO the
class of 1905. alumni of prior and later
classes will return. Never in the his
tory of the university has such a con-
certed and serious effort been made
to organize the alumni as is now being
undertaken by MIR. Crenshaw and his
assistants.
The tentative program VIII be an
nounced In few weeks, and the April
number OF the Alumni Bulletin will
print special article dealing with
the plans for commencement and the
reunion of '0S and other classes.
Dean Morris Page, of the University
OF Virginia. returned to the university
last night from New York, where as a
senator OF the society,he attended the
annual meeting OF the senate of Phi
Beta KAPPA. This is one OF the famous
learned societies Of the world, and
membership in the senate is regarded
as one of the highest distinctions that
can come 10 an academician.
The article published in the January
number of the Alumni Bulletin on the
life and services of Professor John w
Mallet, the distinguished chemist and
professor Of chemistry at the univers.
" and other Institutions which was
prepared by Professor William Hold.
ing Echols. has attracted wide atten.
ton In this country and abroad The
editors OF the Bulletin have received
requests from several universities in
the United States and from the edito,
OF the journal Of the London Chemica
society for the foan or the cuts Illus.
trating the article. They want to use
them in connection with similar testi
mOnials which they will issue