Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-18
SOON
TO QUIT STUDIES
Numerous Colleges and
Schools to Hold Commence
mentS in Next Four Weeks.
NOTED MEN TO OFFICIATE
AT GRADUATION EXERCISES
Vice President Marshall and Speaker
Clark Among Those Who Will
Present Diplomas.

Beginning next week and continuing
through the second week in June. thou
sands of graduates of the numerous pri-
vate and public schools, colleges and uni
versities of this city will receive their
ton exercises at many Of the schools
there will also be the usual accompany
ing exercise OF baccalaureate sermons,
class days and the presentation of plays.
The George Washington University
graduation exercises are to be held in
Memorial Continental Hall June IL. Large
classes will be graduated from the medi-
cal, law. dental and academic depart
ments. Rev. Charles II. Dodge OF Balti-
more Is to deliver a baccalaureate sermon
to the graduates the Sunday previous to
the commencement.
AS usual, the commencement of George
town University will be in three parts.
The members OF the academic department
will receive their diplomas June > at Gas
ton Hall, in the university grounds -Four
days later the members of the law class
will hear the baccalaureate sermon at
Polls, while the College of Medicine
will hold commencement eSerc1es in Gas
ton Hall June Ii.
Graduates to Appear in Play.
Graduation exercises at the National
Cathedral School for Girls will take place
June 3. Included in the exercises in con-
nection with the graduation will be
play to be given by the graduates.
The National Cathedral School for
Boys commencement is to take place
June 3. On the day previous the bac-
calaureate sermon will be delivered to
the boys by Bishop Harding at st. Al
o. n place
the Saturday previous.
A week of festivities is on the pro-
gram at National Park Seminary at
Forest Glen. Commencement will be
field day sports will be conducted by
the young women. The alumnae dance
is to be given the night OF May "a
An English oak tree is to be planted
% in honor of the anniversary of the
signing of the treaty of Client Rev.
u. G. B. Pierce is to deliver the bac-
calaureate sermon May 25
!. A studio tea Monday afternoon is to
be given by the graduating class of
Hamilton School, MCPHERSON Square,
while the commencement exercises are
to be held May q.
Four Days Festivities Listed.
Four days festivities are scheduled,
beginning next Saturday, for the grad
yates, Of Gunston Hall. Shakes
pearean play is to be presented Satur-
day evening, while the baccalaureate
sermon will be delivered the next
night at st. Margaret's Church. Class
day exercises are to be held Monday
morning, May 26, and the graduation
exercises Tuesday morning. May 81
The presentation exercises of the
class OF 1918 of the Friends School
are to be held Friday evening, May %,
at the school. 1909 l street northwest
Champ Clark. Speaker Of the House of
Representatives, is to deliver an ad-
dress, The World Is Growing Better
The thirty-eighth annual commence
ment of Mount Vernon Seminary will
be held Thursday morning. May %, at
II o'clock, at the New Willard.
Vice President Marshall is to deliver
the commencement address and pre-
sent the diplomas at the graduating
exercises Of Fai-mont College the
evening of May %. At the Bristol
School exercises Will be held Tuesday
evening. May q, and the annual French
play will be enacted May %.
Washington College. in lexington. viii
hold it's commencement May 2G. The
annual play will be given May %, the
concert May ~. the baccalauerate SER
mon win be preached May 25, and elias:
day exercises viii be held the morning
of May Is.
To Receive Diplomas at Rauscher's.
Diplomas will be presented to the grad
yates of Miss Maderia's school for girls
June at Rauschers.
Young woman and young man gradu-
ates of the Washington College of Law
are to receive their diplomas from Sen
ator Townsend the evening of May e
at Memorial Continental Hall. Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey. dean of the school. will
preside at the exercises.
The graduates of the Smailwood-W VIII
bur School, Washington Seminary, are
to receive their diplomas the morning OF
Nav - The baccalaureate sermon will
be delivered the Sunday afternoon pre-
vious by Rev. Charles Wood, pastor OF
the Church Of the Covenant.
Belcourt Seminary will have its COM
mencement May %. Class day exercises
will take place Wednesday, May u. and
the annual recital by the students in the
musical department VIII be given on the
afternoon OF May -.
The commencement exercises at the
Catholic University will be held in Nc
Nfoban uan tho morning of lime