The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-09
COLLEGE PAGEANT.
rcont,nr ed from Page One.l
tory is recalled by a pioneer Topekan
Founding of College.

Founding OF 0OlleSc.
The Founding of the College was
depicted by members of the Central
congregational church. An attract
i've model of Rice hall made by w. w.
Gillespie was exhibited. Then lena
bod Washburn gave $4,000 and the
name was changed.
The Greek flower maidens were the
first attraction in the second section
of the performance. They were fol-
lowed by 100 alumni members dressed
in costumes Of the fifty years The
music department presented THE
Music of the Spheres" in which eight
young ladies took part. They were
followed by old English Ministries. The
classical group bore various kinds of
musical instruments. Then there was
an antiphon between earthly and heav-
emily bodies
Study of Biblical History.
There was d study of Biblical his
tory in which such characters as The
Queen of Sheba, Solomon and others
appeared.
Sociology came next. Those rep
resenting comparative religion and
missions Were attired in appropriate
costumes-more than 80 of them.
This contingent was led by Il Bedouin
sheik who carried a banner on which
was inscribed the names OF 81 Wash
burn college missionaries THE
Dance of the Bees and the Flowers
was given as representatives of bot
any.
History will he represented by five
later ages, Middle with the browning
of Charlemague, Modern with Martin
Luther, Nineteenth Century with Ma
poleon, the Formation of the German
Empire With Bismarck. and finally
grand Ia b1eau with the Allies on one
side, the Germans, Turks and Aus
TRANS on the other, and between them
and back further on the stage the
neutral countries led by the United
States and South America. Reconcile
alton was brought about and the two
warning parties pass off the stage arm
in arm.
The Romance language contingent
will form numerous tablcauX.
The department of chemistry pre-
scented the Dance of the Atoms
Those who participated entered in
jumbled fashion and left all linked
together. The seven colors of the
spectrum: were represented by as
many girls in the physic department
CARRIED in appropriate costume.
Mathematic was represented by
Euclid, Archimedes and numerous
other old figures, very similar to those
presented at the Holyoke pageant af-
ter which many of the WaShburn
ideas have been copied.
Mother Goose.
Mother Goose, Siegfred, and orher
chara We're presented by the
English department. Art and archae-
ology was depicted in style pleas
ing to the eye
The last and most pretentiouS of
the thirteen events was the represent
I tation OF the classics First came a
Roman procession with the heroes OF
, olden times IL the lead. They Were
followed by a white sacrificial OK with
golden horns.
Fifty Leading Educators.
Fifty leading educators from Kan
sss and other states were on the plat
form in Washburn chapel at the
morning session of the semi centennial
celebration of Washburn college this
morning The addresses We're scholar
ly, and many high compliments We're
paid Washburn college. The audience
was disappointinsly small.
''Washburn college has had fifty
years of slow but sure development.
said Dean d. L. McEachron. who pre-
sided. This year in the college de-
partment@ more students are to be
graduated than We're graduated in the
first % years of the history of the in
stitution.
.'You are pressing our into a future