Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-14
COMMENCEMENT WEEK
OPENS AT SWARTHMORE
Graduates Number S8-This Il
Class Day - Ex President
Taft There Tomorrow.

swarthmore College closes Its 18th YEA,
this week with the graduation Of 81
students, the largest class of seniors m
the history Of the institution. Twice bA-
fore, in 1909 and last year, n GRADUATES
received diplomas on Commencement
Day.
Today is Class Day at the only collsz.
maintained by the Society of Friends. Be-.
cause of the large number of Graduates
the exercises consisted only of the al.
dress by William Laurie Seaman, presI.
dent of the class of 1916 and the "presen.
tations" by Arthur Horton Mann This
ceremony of presenting each member Of
the class with some article characterlzng
his college life, or prophesying his future
is unique to Swarthmore. Glass Day ex.
ercises were held in the outdoor amphI.
theatre between Parrish and Horton
Halls, at o'clock.
Following the exercise came the senior
play. Shakespeare's midsummer Nights
Dream" is the play this year. 1t was
presented in the amphotheatre, with
natural scenery and in costume The
cast follows:
TheSeuB Observation-Disclosures. Ellen Mlier
Lysander ......................C Clayton Rogers
Demetrlus ......'..............E Earle Twining
IIStsSSus Laurie seaman
PhiloStrate OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. James Frofff
. E.
ounce 1900 ''''''''''''' wesley Matsoa
Snug ....................,.. Stokes CaTswei
Elute '''''..'''''. .''''. 'Gloson Blake
99tiout ''"'' '''''' ttsFpsrL luy
Stanching ................:..... John Williams
Hlppolyta '''...''..''.'.A Augusta Jeninghasi
Hernia ....................E Elizabeth Roberts
Helena ....................... Margaret Milne
Oberon '.'.....'.....,,..' Margaret Mclntesa
Titania .............. .Jessica Granville-Smith
Fuck ';..;..'''''..' dorothy Powell
Fairies-fsabelic Pugh. Catharine Push IsrS
Camp. Helen Gilmore.
Pile, Ruth Short, Grace schaeffer, Elizabeth
Gage.
ALUMNI DAY TOMORROW.
Tomorrow is Alumni Day 1t is e1.
pected that the number of alumni who
will attend the commencement this year
will be very large, for special reunions
have been arranged for the classes OF rs
80, 'S5, 80, 95, 1900 'O5, 10 and Is.
Alumni will register at the Bureau Of
Information where they will meet their
friends Fraternity meetings and re
unions will be held at o'clock, and the
Alumni Association will hold its annual
meeting in Parrish Hall at 10 o'clock
officers will be elected and reports will
be read
The present officers Of the Alumni AsEo-
ciation are: President, Ellis b. Ridgway
80. Coatesville; vice presidents, Arthur
Cox Smedley. '9S, Montchanln, Deli Flor
ence Hall Philips, 80 Wilmington, Dell
and Ralph ]. Baker. 'O7 Lansdowne; sec
retary and treasurer, Abby Mary Han
Roberts, 80, Swarthmore, and directors
Frederick A. Seaman, 49, New York city
Horace Roberts. 'S7, Moorestown, N u
and Louella Passmore Hayes, @, West
Chester, whose terms expire this year
and Charles G.. Hodge, 96, Philadelphlsi
Henry B. Seaman, 81, New York elg' E
and Bird T. Baldwin, 1900, Swarthmois'
whose terms expire next year.
Luncheon will be in the dining room ol E
Parrish Hall at l o'clock At 2lo Ihs
men will form a parade in which eaen
class will march TO Whittier Field .
groups. There the ball game between
the alumni and varsity will be staged ~
$3.50 o'clock. Frank Gaskell, 10, Of Jenkn.
town, is expected to pitch. He plteaso
the alumni to victory last year. TWlnns s
or Ames will pitch for the 'undergrads
The alumni supper will be held IN lns
William ]. Hall gymnasium at O'clock
Mr.. Ridgway will be master OF ceie-
monies and Mr. Baldwin will be marsasL
Informal speeches viii be made as Af
Ridgway calls on members OF the Yarlel,
classes. IL Is expected that ex-Presldsh.
Taft. who is TO deliver the commencement
address, win arrive in Swarthmore in liA'
10 make a short speech TO the alumni
Commencement Day opens al ~
o'clock. when the managers, faculty aAa
class meet in someryille Hal
to form the academic procession 70 lh'
amphitheatre. II II rains the proesssiea
will be omitted and the exercises VIII 2,
held In the gymnasium. Commeneemel.
Is at II o'clock, when Professor Tatt Ai
deliver the address. President JossPl
Swain, of the college, will then presA'
the diplomas.