The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-04
Fiftieth Anniversary of Found
ing of College Tomorrow.
Opening of Half Million Dollar
Campaign To Be Launched.
GAY FESTIVITIES ARE PLANNED
Professional and Glass Stunts
q Feature of Celebration.
Banquet in Evenipg-Addresses
by Alumni of Old School.

Friday, Feb. 5 is to be big day for
Washburn college. Not only will
there be an elaborate. program cele-
brating the fiftieth anniversary Of the
founding of the college. but plans now
being perfected, will be presented to
the board of trustees of the college for
their approval, for the launching of a
campaign to raise an endowment fund
of 100000.
A half-million dollars is the goal
which has been set to be reached by
Jan. 1, 1916. One fifth of this, or
100000. has already been condition
ally pledged by the general education
al board of New York city. This sum
will be given Washburn college If the
college succeeds in raising 100000
by January l next, and it is to raise
this amount that the present plans
are now being made. Just what the
plan is will not be made public until
after it has been submitted to the
board of trustees and received the ap-
prevail of that body. Washburn al
ready has an endowment fund of
$36O.0OO.
Washburn day is always a gala day
at the college. but the festivities COM
memorating the fiftieth anniversary
will be on a larger scale than anything
of the kind ever held before, and
Washburn alumni and former students
Will attend in large numbers. The Gel
ebration will begin at 10 O'Clock in the
morning with a general platform meet
ing. The trustee-faculty luncheon will
be held at Boswell at noon, and the an
nual meeting of the board of trustees
at o'clock. The Holbrook reception
will be held later in the afternoon, and
at $3.50 o'clock in the evening the an
nual Washburn day banquet will be
held in Thomas hall.
Portrait of DIR. Fisk.
An interesting feature of the morn
ing meeting will be the presentation to
the college of large portrait in oil
painting Of the Rev. D. NJ. Fisk. done
by George Stone, the Topeka artist
The picture is a gift to the college by
the students and admirers of the bril-
liant we'll known and likab1e Wash
burn instructor, author and clergyman
The morning meeting. will open with th+
customary professional and will give at
tention to the old Science Hail. period
of Washburn which will be related by S
W. Brewster, attorney general of Kansas
and by Mrs. Willard, Of Manhattan, who
as Miss Lydia Gardiner, was an early day
student at Washburn.
THE main event of the evening will be
the annual banquet, the fun-making par
OF the annual gathering of Washburnites
The students will be seated in classes an
a man but t feW are III. fop
speeches of the evening nave been de
Scr1Ded IN advance. LiOyu Barton vii
represent the freshman class and Mildred
Cephart, the seniors. From the faculty
will be addresses by Judge Benson an6
Professor Hefelbower.
To the fair maidens of Holbrook cot
tage not the least important event of the
Gay will be the reception given by then
in the afternoon
The celebration of Washburns semicen
tennial will not be confined to those OF
the Washburn campus on that day. The
annual celebrations in Chicago and New
York will be larger than usual this year