Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-05-22
PLAN GREAT COMMENCEMENT
Largest Attendance of Alumni
in Recent Years Expected.
New Features to he IntrOduced--Lf-
fort Mnde to Have Undergraduates
Present in Force-Parade
ON Alumni Day.

The 109th commencement at the Uni
verslty of Vermont will be an event sur.
passing all previous occasions of its kind,
according to plans fast taking final form.
Several new features will find place on
the fve-day program, the largest attend
ance of graduates in recent years is ex-
pected. and effort is already put forth by
faculty members and student leaders to
have the undergraduates remain in large
numbers for commencement week.
AS usual. the program will open with
the Kingsley prize speaking Saturday
evening, June q. Sunday afternoon prosI-
dent Benton will preach the bac".
reate sermon. The service will he
the college green, according to ii"
Initiated a year ago, unless the
forbds.
On Monday, which will be claGs day,
the seniors will take their customary
morning walk" OF final visitation to
their professors. In the afternoon the
class day exercises will be held on the
green with the following as speakers
f. c. Fiske, Ivy grafton; Roswell Farm
ham, pipe grafton; Paul Krusc. campus
grafton; W. r. Wells, address to Lnder-
II duudl1S, " W. SlluOllNS' NItlSS llloNpl y
Miss Mary Jean Simpson, class poem,
Miss Cora Parkhurst, class essay. The
class marshal is W. p Smith
During the remainder Of the afternoon
the various fraternity receptions will he
held, and in the evening the senior prom
viii be held in the Billings library The
election of the Phi Beta Kappa society
will take place at $50 p. m.
MANY ALUMNI EXPECTED.
on Tuesday, alumni day, tho Phi BETA
Kappa society will hold its annual bus
mess meeting in the morning, and there
will be also the usual meeting of the uni
versity trustees 1t Is not certain that
the alumni breakfast will be continued
this year, but the graduating class will
be received into the alumni association
with an address by Daniel l.. Cady, Sc.
1t IS too early to form an idea of the
probable attendance of alumni. If it is
large enough to warrant, there will prob
ably be a parade of alumni in costume,
by classes, and undergraduates, with
fraternity floats. \ game of baseball
between the academic faculty and the
doctors is planned for the early after
noon on Centennial field, and the recep-
ton of President and Mrs Benton will
be held at four O'Clock.
Dinners of alumni by classes, and a
| bonfire and smoker for graduates and
undergraduates on the campus are pro.
posed for the early evening. and at nine
o'clock will be held the various fraternity
reunions. The class of 1903. ten year,
| f,rtt Af
years out, are planning reunions thi.
commencement as also are the members
of the class of 1905 and others. Tn,
representation from 1903, it is understood
| will be large.
COMMENCEMENT DAY.
Although 1t has been suggested tha
the commencement exercises Wednesday
morning be held in the gymnasium s,
that commencement may be centercc
wholly about the university grounds, tn,
| indications are now that the degrees vii
be conferred in The Strong theatre. as II
other years, on account of Its reatint
capacity.
The speaker of the day will be the Rev
| Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, pastor of tn,
Brooklyn Congregational Tabernacle, anC
one or the foremost pulpit orators of tn,
world. The usual procession from tn.
university will precede the exercises. an,
II the expected number OF alumni an,
students Is present the column will b.
a long and brilliant one
During commencement week. probabl,
on Tuesday evening, the young wome,
OF the university will present at Grass
mount the Greek play "Endymion," nov
/ IN rehearsal. The closing event of TN,
( commencement season will be the senio
ooauide on Lake Champlain Wednesda,
| evening.