Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-09
OLD GRADS TAKE
LEAD IN TECHS
CELEBRATION
More Than Three Hundred, Here
for Three-Day Anniversary OBJ
servance, Plan Big Things.

The celebration of the twenty fifth
anniversary of the founding Of the
Georgia School Of Technology is in
full swing Monday More than 1000
alumni students and visitors-dis-
tinguished and just plain visitors
are participating in the exercises,
which mark an epoch in the history
of the school.
The plans for the three remaining
days of the ebration-Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday-pro for
the most elaborate college celebra-
tons ever held in the State of Geor-
gia.
There will be addresses by some of
the most prominent educators in the
country, and by Atlantans who have
graduated at Tech and gone out into
the commercial world and made
good"
Three hundred or more alumni
who are here for the celebration are
planning many things to prove that
they are loyal Tech men.
An address by DR.. Philander P.
Claxton, of Washington. D. c., Ma
tional Commissioner of Education, at
the Tech Y. NJ C. A. auditorium at
$3.50 O'Clock, will feature Mondays
program DIR. Claxton is one of the
foremost educators of the United
States. Dr. Claxton frequently has
lectured in Atlanta.
Monday afternoon from 5 TO
o'clock DIR. K. G. Matheson will be
the host at the annual presidents re-
ception TO the graduating class.
Promenade Brilliant Event.
The annual promenade given by the
junior class in honor Of the seniors,
on the college campus, promises to
be an unusually brilliant social event
this year. 1t will begin at 8 o'clock
Monday night and will continue until
the flight of time forces the merry
makers and joy-seekers to go home.
The campus viii be brilliantly lighted.
Refreshments will be served and
there win be dancing in the Crystal
Palace. Society will be out in force,
and it is expected that the crowds
win tax the capacity even of the large
Tech campus. At the close of the
promenade the annual book burn
ing by the seniors will take place.
Tuesday will be the big day of the
celebration. Enough events have
been arranged for all Of unusual in
terest. to supply Tech students and
alumni with reminiscent material for
years to come The day begins, from
a Tech standpoint. at $3.50 o'clock in
the morning when the annual meet
ing of the Alumni Association will be
held A r. COlcord of Atlanta, pres
ident of the association, viii preside
and viii deliver an address of well
come to the men who will shortly
Join the ranks Of the alumni 9th
ers win speak. telling of their eXpe-
fences in school and the outer world.
Founders Day exercises, when the
men who made Tech viii gather for
contemplation and discussion of their
work, viii he held at 1880 o'clock in
the Y NJ. c. A. auditorium. DR.. l. c.
Hopkins, the first president of Tech,
and Judge y. f. Harris. president of
the board Of trustees, will be prinei
pal speakers. Other men who were
instrumental in putting the school on
its feet during the first few years of
its existence also will speak.
AIphonso Smith Orator.
Founders Day Grafton will be de-
Iivered at the Grand Theater at s
O'Clock Tuesday evening by c. AL
phonso Smith, Phi. D., Ill. D.. pro-
fess0r of English at the University of
Virginia. Dr. Smiths address is
awaited with unusual interest by the
students and faculty Of the college
and the people Of Atlanta. many of
whom have been fortunate enough to
have heard him in previous addresses.
Dr. Smith is considered one of the
greatest educators in the country. He
has lately returned from Germany,
where he spent a year as a member
of the faculty Of the University of
Berlin. He was appointed by Presi-
dent Taft, at the suggestion of En-
peror William OF Germany, who pro-
posed that the United States ex-
change educators for the purpose of
studying the educational methods of
each country
Following the address by DR..
Smith, the graduating class and fac
ulty viii he guests Of Governor ana
Mrs. Joseph NJ Brown at the Govern
or's Mansion.
The eyes of Tech students turn
to Tuesday afternoon as the really big
time of the celebration for then will
he held the annual class day eXer-
cisas and the brilliant burlesque
pageant which the students and the
alumni have been planning for sew.
eral weeks. The usual class day pro-
gram will be rendered. George NJ.
Hope Jr.. Of Atlanta. viii read the
class history. and viii be followed by
Harleston Hall Of Atlanta, class
Walter r. Boyd, Of Atlanta. will
deliver an inspired address, in which
he VIII drop the mantle of the senior
. onto the shoulders Of the jun
Tors.
z-5n VIM. Of Eastman, Ca. win
rr sent 20 the school the memorial
from the class of 1913 DR.. Samuel
s. Wallace. head of the department Of
ErFrTEan r.fII accent the memorial IN