The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-26
Four Days of Celebration of
Semi CentenniaI Period.
MAGNIFICENT CAMPUS PAGEANT
City Organizations to Take Part
i'm Afternoon Scene.
Hundreds of Graduates Will Re-
turn for sold IchabOd."

and successful terms in the history of
the college, the semi-centennial spring
commencement exercises of Washburn
l-Old Ichabod-will be held June to
10. One hundred students will cut
| the bonds that have in the past four
years held them to the standard of the
blue. OF the 100 graduates. IS will
receive degrees and the other Is GER
tificates.
Sixty-five will be given Bachelors
degree. This is the largest class to be
given the latter degree since the col
lege has been esta blished.
A tentative program of the exercises
which was arranged today by Dean
d. L. McEa chron shows that the col
iege is planning commencement that
will rival any similar affair in the his
tory of Kansas colleges.
DIR. Sanders Comes Back.
The baccalaureate sermon will be
delivered at IL o'clock Sunday morn
ing, June 5, by Rev. Frank K. Sand
ers, director Of the board of mission
airy preparation, New York city.
for the meetings of the different
bodies. At 4 o'clock Sunday after
noon sacred concert will be given
under the direction of Dean Horace
WhitehOuSe at Mac Vicar chapel
Students Day.
day. At o'clock in the morning the
class day exercises of the graduates
of the academy will be given on the
campus. Monday evening the Wash
operetta, "A Midsummer Nights
Dream at the assembly tent begin
ming at Sis o'clock.
Great Pageant.
Wednesday at $3.50 o'clock in the
afternoon a pageant, in which organ
n No
bodies, will take part, will be present
ed. the Rotary club will depict In
dian days-the first number on the
pageant. The territorial period will
be presented by the Women's Fedora
ton of Topeka. The law school stu
dents of the college will present the
famous constitutional convention. The
founding of Washburn college will be
depicted by the First Congregational
church of Topeka. The possession of
the years and the work of the college
will be presented by the graduates and
by the departments of instruction. The
exercises will end at 1 o'clock Thurs
day afternoon with the alumni dinner
at Thomas gymnasium.
Following is a complete tentative
program of the commencement exer-
cises:
Sunday, June 6.
II 100 a. m.-Baccalaureate sermon by the
Revernd Frank E. Sanders;
Of Missionary Preparation,
faculty and graduating class
Carnegie Library at 10 30 and
proceed to the assembly tent.
400 p. m-Sacred concert under the di-
Whitehouse .MacVicar chapel.
500 p. m.-Address before the Christian
Associations of Washburn col
lege. by the Revernd Noble
sas. Assembly tent.
Monday, June !.
burn Academy. Campus.
1880 a. m.-Class Day exercises by the
graduating class. of the De-
partment of Liberal Arts.
200 p. m.-ColIege Organizations:
Program by the Washburn
Literary Societies.
Program by the Gamma Sig
ma and A1ethean Literary So
..The Spirit of the Prairies,"
masque, presented by the
Young Mems and Young Wo-
mems Christian Associations.
$50 p. m.-AnnuaI Reunion of the Tau
Delta Pr Observatory.
I 80 p. m.-Graduating exercises of the
Academy, Glass of 1915. Ad- |
dress by Reverend William
F. Harding, D. D., of Fort
Dream" Assembly Tent. (Ad |
mission by ticket. Reserva-
tons can be made at the col
Tuesday, June 8.
80 a m.-Meeting of the Washburn Col |
lege Alumni Historical and |
Reminiscent addresses by for |
Iner members of the faculty |
chapel.
II 100 M.-Class luncheons and reunions on |
the Campus.
Il 80 p. MANUAL meeting of the board
of trustees Boswell Hail.
) :00-5 100 p. m.-Informal reception by |
Dean and Mrs McEach- |
Alumni and former stu
dents. Presidents resi- |
100 p. m.-Dinner for Alumni present |
universities and colleges. Ma
made at the college office or
Commercial club. No reserva- |
tions may be made after 600
10 80 a. m -Commemoration exercises. |
Greetings from Eastern col
wood, Wellesley. Greetings
from WiIIia Western 81 n. colleges by DT-
Wednesday, June 8.
Greetings from Colleges of the Interior, |
by Dean H. Bennett, DOane.
Greetings from Kansas Colleges, by |
Greetings from the Congregational Fell |
lowship, by President. Walter H Rollin,
Greetings from the State Department of
Public Instruction. by Superintendent w.
ID. Ross.
Address by President William Douglas
Mackenzie D. D., LII. d. of the Hartford
Foundat ton.
tTrustees. members of the faculty and
representatives of other colleges will as
semble at Carnegie library at 10 a. M and
proceed to the chapel.)
II 30 a m.-Luncheon for speakers of the
day and guests of honor, pres
ident's residence.
so y. m.-Pageant.