The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-01

Auhhii Doy AuCSuoy The alumni banquet, the delivery of the address by the Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, the reunion of the law classes of the university. with an ad- dress by the Hon. Henderson M Somer- | vile of New York, founder of the law de- partment, will insure a tremendous crowd | for Tuesday and 1t is expected that all records for an alumni day attendance here will be broken.
 The reunion of the law classes, which was arranged by Hon. A. S. Van de Graaff of Tuscaloosa, assisted by number of the alumni, is expected to be the feature
 of commencement. Reunions of practi- cally all the classes in the law depart 1 ment for the past 30 years have also been arranged and every effort has been made to have a full attendance of the members of each class. A number of banquets have been arranged by the individual | classes and other forms of entertainment have been provided.
 The alumni banquet will be held at the
 university at l o'clock Tuesday and will follow immediately after the address of A. Mitchell Palmer
 Many Social Features The present commencement season is being marked by series of unusually brilliant social entertainments Monday night, the Skulls, an -interfraternty or ganization of the University, will give their anual german in Clark hall Tues day night, the L.. T. F. club, composed of prominent young men of Tuscaloosa, will entertain with a german, and on Wednesday night the commencemnt hop
 takes place in Clark Hall. subscript- ion dance. was given by the athletic as- sociation Saturday night and the Mid night Sons. club composed of prominent
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 dance at the University. In addition to
 these, large number of private dances are being given at the different frat
 ternity houses and at residences Young women who from all over Ala
 bama and from a number of other states
 are here to participate in the social act tivities of the week, and every indication points to a week of marked social brill lance.
 The University of Alabama baseball team will meet the Sewanee team on the campus of the University Monday, Tues
 day and Wednesday afternoons. Trustees Meet Wednesday The meeting of the board of trustees at the university Wednesday promises to De one of the most important held in some
 years Three members are to be elected to fill vacancies on the board and the keen est interest is being taken in this matter Hugh Morrow of Birmingham, who re-
 gently announced that he would sever his ! connection with the board at this meeting, is in the city It Is known that President Denny has made an effort to have MT. Morrow reconsider his action, but up to the present time he has not announced that he would carry out his intention to resign.
 | Other vacancies exist in the Second
 and the Fourth districts. caused by the
 deaths of M. P. Legrand of Montgomery and J. Hal Johnston of Talladega. Maj.
 R. E. Steiner of Montgomery is consid-
 cred as very strong applicant for the | position from the Second district and J.
 Kelly Dixon of Talladega is said to stand
 a fine chance of being elected from the | Fourth. There are a number of other applicants, however, and since none of
 the members of the board of trustees who are in Tuscaloosa will give any intima- ! tion of their opinion any surmses at this
 time are purely conjecture. From the Ninth district. to fill the vacancy which will be caused if Hugh Morrow resigns, 1 the names of Hill Ferguson. Robert Jemi-
 being mentioned.
 Denny Will Submit Report
 The annual report of President Denny 1 to the board of trustees will be submit ted at the meeting Wednesday. It Is un- derstood that the report will show the most successful year in the history of the institution and it will also contain num- l Der of important recommendations for the consideration of the board. Just what the report will recommend in regard to the graduate school of medicine in Bir-
 mingham has not yet been announced. A feature of the programme Wednesday will be the unveiling of the bronze tablet in Morgan hall, presented by Morgan s Gilmer of Montgomery4 Mf Gilmer will be present and the tablet will be accepted by President Denny.
 The commencement address at thu graduating exercises will be delivered hS the R6v. pr. Henry M. Edrpon6s of BIT
 ningham and President Denny will eonkel
 the degrees. The members of tho Gradu'