The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-27
RED LETTER WEEK
AT UNIVERSITY
Numerous Other Events Besides
Nandcrbilt-Virginia Game
on Saturday.
ELI BANANA CELEBRATION
Many Distinguished Alumni Will
Attend Reunion This
Week.
ELI BANANA CELEBRATION
Especial TO The Times-Dispatch.

Especial to The Times Dispatch.1
Charlottesville. Va. October 26.-This
week promises TO be red letter week
IN Charlottesville. In addition to the
bit and Virginia. TO tabe place Satur-
day on Lambeth Field, numerous other
events arc scheduled: The thlrty-nf,h
anniversary or the Eli Banana Society
in tho University OF Virginia will be
observed. starting Friday. tho state
student Conference OF the Younk Mems
Christian Association will assemble
Wednesday night and conclude on Sun
day, and state officers of tho Virginia
Division. Travellers Protective .tsSocia-
ton OF America Will meet here on Fri
day TO make final arrangements for or
saniZing Il post the following day.
and speakers VIII attend the Y. NJ. c. a.
convention, which Will open With
BANQUET 70 be given the delegates at
day night. Bible study. mission study
ana social service viii receive special
consideration at the confercYce Tho
list of speakers includes many promt-
nent educators and leaders OF national
rep,nlt;a,ti ton In association work.
dent OF the Virginia Division: Robert
-. Davis. OF Norfolk. chairmal of the
tmembership commitiee, &. j., Coleman.
with. state director. OF Petersburg: G.
;. Johnson; state director OF Roanoke.
and - w sale. state director. OF
organizing the T. T.. ~ post
Eli Iinnnna Celebrating
sixty members Of the Eli Banana So
ciety have positively siEniiicd their in
tention OF attending the reunion and
more than forty others have written
hand. one hundred seats have been re-
served in the grandstand by Tho lEns
Tor the NandcrbiltN Virginia gamo be-
tween the cheering and the Richmond
sections. Entertainments will start
Friday night with a smoker and the
i,Nrp u, 4,
ing. a buffet luncheon before the game
ana ana, a General ,t reunion meeting that
iiSht There Will be 20 ut tho gen
ccral reunion that night, exclusive of
the undergraduate members.
The society was founded ut Virginia
ginia White Sulphur Springs. The first
student members We're initiated by the
present rector OF the board of visitors
Charles Il, Whipple Who is dead The The
tirst directory of the society was head
ed by Charles a. Grady. ono of the
three original founders OF tho order
III this country.
Many distinguished mon arc included
Among the most prominent are tn.
ftollowins Judge r: Garter Scott. 10,
T. $: Gaitskill. so. Giro !. Kan r. H.
Byrd. so, Speaker of tho Virginia
House of Delegates; II, NJ. Barksdale,
OF the DUPONT Powder WORKS: r. q
Iayior So assistant district attorney
ton. 81. Richmond. Herbert Old. 20
secretary OF the Virginia Medical As
sociation: George Wayne Anderson. So
! Richmond; W. Christie Benet 1900, city
attorney. Columbia. $, G; Hammond
Johnson. '0i. Norfolk James Acorn
Rector. o.. st. Louis. Mo; jennings c.
Wise. 'os. Lexington. comma ndant of
the virginia Military Institute: q. r.
lark, %. Baltimore. Md. y. NJ. l..
Elliott. 1900, Washington. II. G.
Besides William ii. Echols. the Oldest
member or the chapter at the univer-
oil the faculty at the reunion-Dea n
James Morris Page and Dean It. IL.
Dabncy.