The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1913-06-13
NINETY-FOURTH
COMMENC CEMENT
lMaryville College Shows
a Prosperous Year
7O2 STUDENTS
Largest Enrolment in.the
Schools History

The ninety fourth annual Com
mepcem4r If Marvville College ha
lust closed the m@at Draspe yea
in the history of tAe institution. Ii
each of.the three terms the recof;
for attendance WIS broken, WhH
for the entire yeaT the enrollmen
OF 7O2 and 90 more than eyer before
The only event that in any wa,
marred the notable progress OF th'
wear was the untiNelv decease Q
the late, Dean Elmer BritoR Waller
The Commencement exercises be
gan on Thursday evening, May ~
when the graduates uf the Expres
sion Department gave their tina
recital and received their diplomas
The graduates were Miss Ethe
Fanson, Miss Martha Jackson, Miss
Nav Nuchogs, and Miss Nellie
Pickens.
On Friday night the Adelphit
Union Literary Society had its an
nual banquet in PearsoIs Hall.
Two hundred and fifty guests en-
ioyed the fellowship Of the banquet
ing board and the excellent program
tbaU was afterwards rendered by re-
pre- sentati es of the college literary
societies composing the Adelphic
Union.
The graduates of the Department
of Music, Misses Heller Bryan,
Annie Lee Cross, Grace Groenendyke
Aletha May. Mary Boggs, Mamie
DeArmond, Mary Goddard, and
MarpareC Sugg, and Mr.. Harold
Huddleston, on Saturday evening
rendered the program of their
graduating recital and received their
diplomas. On the same evening
Mis- frankie Lee McNutt. graduate
of the Department year ago, re-
eeiVed a postgraduate certificate
from the College,
On Sunday at 1920 a. m. the
Baccalaureate exercises were held in
the chapel. The sermon was preach
ed by President Wilson to a congre-
CATION that completely filled the
chapel. On Sunday afternoon Rev
Stanley D, Jewell, D, D. pastor of
the Pre- byterian Church of Freder-
icktown, Mo-. made the annual ad.
dress before the Christian Associa-
tions.
Mondov, Tuesday. and Wedles-
day were given to the final examina-
tiors of the under classes, and on
Wednesday evening the Senior Glass
gave its play, Shakespeare's AS You
Like 1t. The play was we'll inter-
preted and splendidly acted and
thoroughly enjoyed by an audience
of more than a thousand persons,
Thursday, June 5, was Commence
ment Day, According to the Gus
tom established several yeals ago by
the College, two members of the
graduating class, chosen upon merit
to represent the class at Commence
ment, delivered orations Mr.. George
Harley Douglas on National Arbi-
tration and Miss Anna Ethel Fanson
on International Arbitration. The
music was fu. nished by graduates
Of the Music Department, Miss
frankie McNutt singing a solo,
while Misses Bryan, May, and
5roanendyke sang three beautiful
rios. The annual address on the
subject Some Higher Lessons for
Teachers and Students was de-
ivered by Rev. John Grant New,
nan, D. D., of the class 1888, who
or ten years was professor of Latin
n the College and now is pastor of
he Chambers-Wylie Memorial Pres
,yterian Church Of Philadelphia,
Pa. Following the Commencement
exercises the annual alumni dinner
vas served in Pearsons Hall,
Twenty-four students were grad
Iated from the College with the de-
rec of Bachelor of Arts. Their
Iames, with addresses and the