Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
FINALS
take PLACE THIS WEEK
PROMISES to BE Rccord-Brcaking
- in Point Of Attendance.
FIGURES ON PROGRAM
Exercises Begin This Morning With
BaccaIaureate Delivered by Rev.
N q. Il. Jefferson. ID. d., of New York.
Diplomas Delivered Wednesday.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE VA, June -.
What promises TO he the biggest and
most largely attended alumni reunion
and finals in the historay of the Uni
yersity of Virginia Will begin to-mor-
row afternoon with the arrival from
Richmond, WASHINGTON and Lynchburg
siof specials bringing hundreds of sons
of Old L. Va. back to the lawn and
rotunda. The specials will reach Union
Station about O'clock. Al $50 a
procession, headed by a band will
march from the station TO tho regis
trntion officers at the Colonnade Club,
where the alumni Will be assigned
rooms.
The formal final exercises will begin
4 Tomorrow morning with the bacCa-
laureate sermon III the chapel The
speaker will be Rev. Charles i. lcffer-
son, p. D.. pastor OF the Broadway
Tabernacle Church. New York city.
DIR. Jefferson is a pulpit orator of note.
and is the author OF a number OF inn
portant works dealing with religious
and humanitarian topics. Since 1902
he has been member Of the corpora
ton of Yale University. AZ the chapel
service the members OF the faculty and
OF the graduating class VIII attend in
academic costume.
ANNUAL puRLlC MEETING
OF UNIVERSITY y. VI. c. A.
The annual public meeting OF the
University Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION will be held in Cabell Hall to-
morrow evening The session now
closing has been the most successful
In the life of the y. NJ. c. y. here. which
is the oldest college y. NJ. c. \. in the
world. More than 600 students are
affiliated with the work of tho associ-
alton, and the Bible classes and other
religious activities of the organization
have been more largely attended by
students this year than ever before. so
that the annual meeting tomorrow
night will have special significance.
The address Will he made by TT. Rev.
Frederick T. Reese. bishop of Georgia.
Bishop Reese is n native Of Baltimore.
and was graduated from tho University
4 of Virginia in 1875. in the same class
with Armistead c. Gordon, Rector of
the University, and Henry c. Stuart.
Governor of Virginia. Bishop Recess
subject to-omorrow night will be THE
Spiritual UNDERMINING Of Life"
On Monday the features Will he an
old Virginia barbecue, which will be
under the direction OF William Garth,
of Albemarle. In the evening the Wash
ington and Jefferson Literary Societies
will hold their annual meeting in Cabcll
Hall. Medals will he awarded winners
in the several oratorical ana dcbat ting
contests. and an address Will he de-
livered by Chief Justice Walter Clark,
of the Supreme Court Of North Caro-
! lima. His subject will he. The Cause
of Virgnins Greatness"
After the literary society exercises
I there will be n costume pageant and
torchliEht parade around the univer-
sity grounds. President Edwin y.
, Alderman, Rector Gordon and Senator
! John sharp Williams, OF Mississippi,
1 will review the parade from the bal
. cony OF the administration building
on the east lawn. President Alderman
will on This occasion, welcome the
returning alumni on behalf OF the uni
versity. Rector Gordon viii speak for
the hoard Of visitors and Senator Will
liaHls will speak on behalf Of the gem
eral alumni association.