The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-03
FEATURE OF NOTE
Spectacular Pageant on WASH
burn Campus Wednesday.
One Thousand Persons Will
Take Part i'm Affair.
PART OF GRAND CELEBRATION
WaShburn to Entertain Thou
sands on 5Oth Birthday.
Tableau Depicting Array of
Warning Nations.
PART OF GRAND CELEBRATION

spectacular feature OF the 11teIn
commencement of Washburn college,
the mammoth historical pageant
which will be presented on the cam
pus at $3.50 O'Clock next Wednesday
afternoon. Nearly 1000 persons VIII
participate, 500 of whom will be ar
rayed in costumes appropriate to the
respective events.
The entire student body of Wash
burn college will help to make the pa
geant a success and various Topeka
organizations will present tableaux-
Mrs Katherine Hand is director of the
spectacle.
The program for the afternoon is di-
vided into two parts, the first part
being sub-divided into periods of de-
veIopment of the state and Washburn
college. The second half of the per
formance will deal with thirteen de-
partments of college work.
The Topeka Rotary club will pre-
sent Indian Days" George w. Hart
is chairman of the committee in
charge of this scene. The preparation
of camp will be shown. including the
building of a fire and the erection of
a tepee. A peace council will follow
which will be broken up by an alarm
from the outside; the Indians Will
flee.
Territorial Days"
The Topeka Federation of Women
will present Territorial Days. with
tableaux of the prairie schooner. the
settlers home. pony express, etc
The Wyandotte Constitutional con-
vention will be presented in detail by
the students of the Washburn law
school.
The Founding of the College" will
be depicted by members of the Cen
trail Congregational church. An at
tractive model of Rice hall made by
w w. Gillespie will be exhibited
Then Ichabod Washburn will give
$4,000 and the name will be changed
The Greek flower maidens will be
SeCOn
ton of the performance They Will
be followed by 100 alumni members
dressed in costumes of the fifty years
The music department will present
1.-The Music of the Spheres in which
eight young ladies will take part
They will be followed by old English
minstrels. The classical group will
bear various kinds of musical instru-
ments. Then there will be an antiph-
on between earthly and heavenly
bodies.
Study of Biblical History.
There will be a study of Biblical
history in which such characters as
The Queen of Sheba, Solomon, and
others will appear
Sociology will come next. Those
representing comparative religion and
missions will be attired in appropriate
costumes-more than 80 of them. This
contingent will be led by a Bedouin
sheik who will carry a banner on
which will be inscribed the names of
thirty-seven Washburn college mis-
sionaries 1.-The Dance of the Bees
and the Flowers will be given as rep
resentative of botany.
History will be represented by five
later ages, Middle with the browning
of Charlamagne, Modern with Martin
Luther, Nineteenth Century with Ma
poleon, the Formation of the German
Empire with Bismarck, and finally
grand tableau with the Allies on one
side, the Germans, Turks and Aus
TRANS on the other, and between them
back further
neutral countries led by the United
States and South America Reconcile
alton will be brought about and the
two warning parties pass off the stage
arm in arm.
The Romance language contingent
will form numerous tableaux.
The department of chemistry will
present the Dance of the Atoms"
Those who participate will enter in
jumbIed fashion and will leave all
linked together: The seven coiors OF
as many girls in the physic depart
ment CARRIED in appropriate costume.
Mathematics will be represented by
Euclid, Archimedes and numerous
other old figures. very similar to those
presented at the Holyoke pageant after
which many of the Washburn ideas
have been copied.
Mother Goose.
Mother Goose, Siegfred, and other
characters will be presented by the
English department Art and archae
ology will be depicted in a style pleas
ing to the eye.
The last and most pretentious of the
thirteen events will be the representa-
ton of the classics. First will come a
Roman procession with the heroes of
olden times in the lead. They will be
followed by a white sacrificial OK with
golden horns
The Washburn Review comments as
follows on the OK:
"And it turns out to be a really
truly OK. 1t has been wintered in To-
peka by the Ringing Brothers circus
and permission has been obtained to
use it in the big show. This is gospel
truth. 1t kneels before the altar and
does many other surprisingly wonder
full stunts. that will make it one of the
hits of the day
There will be big parade on the
campus prior to the pageant. Dean
d. l.. McEachron will serve as master
of ceremonies in connection with the