The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-05-09

ing, will be celebrated at Earlham
college June "a, at which time many
of the alumni will attend the COM
mencement exercises of the school.
Large delegations from all parts of
the state are planning to attend
The official announcement of the
event and plans have but recently
been issued by President Robert L.
sion is set out in full in bulletin
issued from the presidents Office and
follows:
EARLHAM HOMECOMING,
June "a, 1913.
We must get home-for we have been
away
So long, it seems forever and a day.
Riley
The Homecoming spirit in instinc-
tive and universal Happily, it is be-
coming stronger with us as a people
Happily, for what more sacred, more
binding and more beneficient tie than
that which binds us to the old home
and it's associations?
This is day of home-comings New
England states have their "old home"
week; cities and towns everywhere
their home celebrations; various Or
CARNATIONS their natal days; families
their annual reunions All are ex-
pressive of the same feelings, the
| same yearning-"We must get home,
for we have been away so long" Wan
derlust yields at last to Heimwah.
Earlham has felt the throb - the
mystic chords" that bind her to her
children have been Tightening - she
announces her home coming.
Earlham, so far as the East is from
the West! Earlham most cordially
| invites, yea, urges all old students and
alumni-all who have ever been in at
tendance at the college for as much
as one term-to be present at the
grand home coming to be held on the
campus on Tuesday, June "a, of the
coming commencement week.
| Indeed, new emphasis is to be
given to commencement of 1913. While
the usual features of the final week
will be seen, dominating all and pull
sating through all will be found the
| homecoming idea and spirit. Primar-
| lily, this is to be old students year.
! Elements o. Home Coming.
| What are some of the feelings and
experiences that come thronging so
heartily and merrily when at Thanks
giving season or the Christmas-tide
you gather at the old homestead in
family reunion? There is first the
/ Of oll hiab
strengthens as the festive season
draws on. 1t CLOVIS and grows into res
olution and then-the glad welcome
and joyous greetings. With what
pleasure do you fellowship with sisters
and brothers, as you renew your &C
quaintance with the old home, rem
| iniscing'' over all landmarks here and
noting changes and development
there! And benign over all is the joy
| and satisfaction of the old home it.
self over these it's children who have
returned again.
Sentimental, you say? We hope SO,
for home is where the heart is. And it
is hoped to make Tuesday, June "a,
/ 1913, Just this kind of a homecoming.
Our alumni return from time to time,
though not in as large numbers as We
WISH but we long also to see host of
OLD, non-graduate students as well. On
this glad occasion Earlham wishes to
welcome all her children-to learn in
timately and personally of their
achievements, their joys and their in.
terests. Earlham wishes to see you
enjoying one, another in the renew
| ing of old friendships and close asso-
Citations after the lapse of the years
You will be interested in wandering
around the old home-"where mem
cries tender cling like ivy"-visiting
the familiar haunts of campus and
woods and stream Macedonia and
Hades in the old dormitory; the old
class room, sacred to the memory of
beloved instructors, and perchance the
scenes of former escapades.
And while RELIEVING the past, you will
take pleasure and interest in noting
the changes and development that are
| in evidence about the Earlham home
stead. This, in general, is our ambi-
ton for Earlham's Homecoming.
Program Features.
In broad outline the features of the
days program may be sketched as
follows: In keeping with the politi.
cal progress of the day, an important
! preliminary will be that of registra-
ton All old students will be expect
I'D to sign up" the first thing in the
morning at the registration booth.
! The history of the college, for the
purpose of graphic representation, is
to divide up into nine periods, in the
following order:
| First Period-Including all students
who attended Earlham previous to and
including 1875.
Second Period-From 1876 to 1885
| inclusive.
Third Period-From 1856 to 1890
inclusive.
Fourth Period-From 1891 to 1895
inclusive.
Fifth Period-From 1896 TO 1900
inclusive.
Sixth Period-From 1901 to 1905
inclusive.
Seventh Period-From 1906 TO 1910
inclusive.
Eighth Period-From 1911 to 1912
inclusive.
Ninth Period-The present student
bady