The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1915-05-20
Reunion Of Civil War Cadets to
Feature State University
TMvamnmeaVmanf
Commencement.


andria in the COS to enlist in the
Confederate army, and an alumni
parade in which graduates from
the various departments of the
state university will spDear in dis
tinctlve costumes, are to be new
features of the commencement
exercises at L. S. U. this year.
The closing exercises this year
begin with review of the cadet
battalion by the graduating class
and the governor and staff on
Friday afternoon, May %, and
end with the comforting of degrees
on the Monday night following.
10 accordance with a custom
established several years ago, the
student body proper will be form
ally dismissed Friday afternoon at
the conclusion of the review, and
only the graduating class and
those of the students who care to,
will remain.
Saturday, May %, has been
designated as alumni day, and will
be spent by the visiting alumni in
holding class reunions and the
transacting OF business of the
alumni federation, election OF
officers, taking part in the parade,
and attending a luncheon. Satur'
day night the graduating class viii
hold It's exercises in the pentagon
WAR CADETS.
A committee appointed by Col
A. T. Prescott, secretary-treasurel
of the alumni federation, has beer
working several months to get al
of the wartime students here for
reunion. Working systematically
the committee have combed TIL
state in search of ex-students whC
resigned from the university dur
ing the civil war to take up The
cause of the c0nfederacy Nearly
all have been located, and replies
indicate that a number of the oil
seminary students will be presen
at the reunion.
Hon. G. J. Barrow, Hon. JohI
A. Seaman and Judge T. A
Moore, local members of the com
mittee, have worked industriousl!
to rout out the "old boys" al
over the state. Their efforts hav
been seconded at other places b!
Hon. j. Z, Thronton of Alex
| andria; Hoea Charles F. Buck o
New Orleans and Hon. Newton @
Blanchard and Hon. T. Alexander
of Shreveport, the older member
of the committee.
THE CAsKET GIRLS.
The women graduates of th
university are TO take part in tn
alumni parade, costumed appropri
ateIy 10 represent the ''Caske
Girls" commemorating the bring
ing over by the French nuns o
peasant girls as wives. for tn
early Louisiana settlers.
Each group of graduates from
the various colleges will be dress
ed IN distinctive costume in tn
parade. The agriculturalists ar
to wear Overalls. wide straw hat
and carry some farming impli
menls; the engineers will wea
field service clothes; the graduate
/ from the art and science depart
ment, caps and gowns: the chem
lists laboratory aprons, and tn
lawyers will look prosperous i
silk hats and long coats.
The parade route has not ye
been selected butswiIl be over tn
principal business streets.
ALUMNI LUNCHEON.
Returning to the university, tn
paraders will disband and atten
the alumni luncheon. For th
FIRST time the men and wome
graduates will hold az associat
luncheon. Heretofore the annus
luncheons have been separat
affairs. The table for the lunche
, on will be set at some place in th
open cir on the campus if th
weather permits; il not, in th
pavilion.