Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
Of
NATION FLOCK
To DEDICATION
Most Brilliant Commencement in
Georgia's History Promised at
Close Of 128th Term.
SENATOR LEWIS is ORATOR
Week Will Be Round of Social
Events and Ceremonies of
Students and Alumni,

ATHENS, June With hundreds
of visiting friends and alumni present
from all over the South. the Univer-
sity of Georgia begins the commence
ment exercises which mark the clos
ing of the 12Sth year of its service 20
the State next Friday. June 10, when.
g usual. the social side Of the week of
Eayety will be drawn together at the
Pan Hellenic dance and the play bv
the "Thalians."
Many of the old grads will be back
TO renew old friendships and to min
gle at class reunions Those Of '93.
IS, '0s and '03 have planned reunions
and will be on hand to answer the
rollcalls again, and local friends AMI
alumni are making preparations 10
royalty entertain them. Besides liv-
ing over the merry college days. the
visitors who gather in Athens at this
commencement will be present at the
dedication of another handsome
building that is to mark the substan-
tial growth of Georgia's State Uni
versity. The George Foster Peabody
Hall is to be dedicated on the 18TH.
while the work on the new Alumni
Hall is progre ssing rapidly.
Lewis to Make Address.
Some Of the most distinguished
speakers of the day are to make ad-
dresses. DR.. w. y. Ainsworth, Of
Mulberry Street Methodist Church.
Macon. delivers the baccalaureate ser
mon Sunday. and Senator J. Hamil-
ton Lewis. of Illinois, makes the bac-
calaureate address on commencement
day. June IS.
June Q the board Of visitors, with
Professor VanHoose. of Rome, chair
man. meets. and June - the board Of
trustees meets, and on the same day
at II O'Clock Peabody Hall will be
dedicated. DR.. II. H. Horne, dean of
New York University, making the ad
dress.
on Friday night the "Thalians"
present "A House on the Sands a
NAV written and dramatized by Ed
gar B. Dunlap, of Gainesville, mem
Der of the "Thalian' Club and SEN
ior Of this year. This is the first time
in its twenty years of theatrical NE
that the club has ever attempted
,isy, written bv a Georgia student ana
one of it's own members. The plot Is
on politics worked out with love
story underlying ii. and has Georgia
as its setting. James NJ. Lynch IS the
main character. while Miss Mary L.Eh-
don and Misses May and Elizabeth
smith are the popular young women
to take parts.
Hellenic Dance Feature.
After the play is over the ran Hel-
IeniC dance at the Moss Audltoflull'
which IS always an elaborate affair
and the largest attended of any Of the
commencement functions, and IS the
one occasion of the gay week when
the Red and Black boys try to Quito
themselves at entertaining.
SATURDAY. evening at o'clock VIII
he the sophomore declarations in the
chanel Ten members of the sopho-
more class will contest for the hand-
some sophomore cup. The speakers
are Charles Jacobson, of Tennllle;
Walter Jenkins, of Naldosta' Georse
Donaldson, of Statesboro; Clark
HoweII of Atlanta: Stephen Mitch
ell Of Atlanta: J +. Wood, Of SaVan-
nah Julian Walker. of Screven; I.
\ Hendricks, of Nashville; Albion
Reed. of Athens, and James Ray OF
Atlanta.
SUNDAY morning at IL o'clock DR.
Ainsworth will deliver the commence
ment sermon. which will be followed
on Monday morning by undergrad
uate day. representatives speaking
from G. n. I. C., Tech, Dahlonega. the
normal school. the medical depart
"A
uartrnents Of the university in Athens
L. 3. Dunlap. of Gainesville, will rep
resent Franklin College. Frank Car
rison. of Cornelia. will represent the
agricultural department.
In the afternoon will be the mill
taryr exercises in which the companies
will compete for the company prizes
and the cadets for the medal oItered
for the best drilled man.
Debate Monday Night
on Monday night will be the annual
rhaupion debate between Phi Kappa
and Demosthenian Literary Societies.
The subject is, Resolved, That the
Philippines Should Be Granted self
Government Within Ten 1ears-
Demosthenian has the affirmative and
is represented bv c. c. Davis, Of Cow
ington, and Virgil Adams. Of Marietta.
Phi Kappa is represented by CnaTles
Mcdaniel. of Atlanta, and Russell Pat