The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-05-25
UNIVERSITY FINALS Of
UNUSUAL INTEREST
Large Number Of Prominent Alumni
VIII Be Present, Including
President Wilson
MEDICAL ALUMNI TO ORGANIZE
Associate Justice A. G. Carson, of the
Supreme Court of the Philippines,
Will Deliver Alumni Address-Con-
fer Degrees juno ii.

Especial to The Richmond virginian,)
Charlottesville, Va, May 24.--Uni-
versity OF Virginia final exercises. to
be hold june IL to ID inclusive, are
expected to be more successful than
usual this year. owing to the large
number Of distinguished alumni of the
Old Dominion University who have
signifed their intention Of returning,
and to the attractiveness of the pro-
gram. The body of alumni in attend
ance will be swelled by an exception.
ally large number OF medical gradu-
ates who will gather for the purpose
Of forming an active alumni associa-
ton.
Among the prominent alumni in
public life whose classes are to hold
reunions this finals are: President
Woodrow Wilson, 81 Senator Claude
4. Swanson. IS. of Virginia; Con-
gressmen Swagar Sherley. 81. of Ken
lucky, Martin A. Morrison. SO, of In
diana, Edwin Y. Webb, 90. of North
Carolina, and Henry Delaware Flood,
SO. of Virginia; Justice Robert s.
Cockrell. 81. OF the Supreme Court Of
Florida; Alfred P. Thorn, 10 counsel
for the Southern Railway and Lucian
Fl. Cooke. 81, counsel for the Norfolk
and Western Railway.
Artists and musicians whose classes
viii hold reunions are: F, Graham
Cootes, '01. Robert Fl. Kearfott. IL.
and George b. Shepherd, II. of New
York City; Carl Zeisburg, '13, OF Phil
adelphia: and John Powell oil. of
Richmond.
The finals program will be varied
and entertaining. Commencing with
the baccalaureate service on Sunday,
June 18th, there are four days of in
for 90 inn Ln, No, fa
sermon will be delivered by DR.. Hugh
Black. of the Union Theological Sem
mary. New York City. The annual
meeting of the Y. NJ. c. A. on Sunday
night will be addressed by distin-
suished alumnus whose name has not
vet been made public.
Permanently Organize Medical Alumni
For the alumni, finals proper will
start Monday morning with bust
ness meeting of the medical alumni
who will be permanently organized
into a working association. The
alumni barbecue Monday afternoon
will be held at "Sunnyside," the home
of Mr. VIM. Duke. SO, and the head
quarters of the famous Albemarle
Barbecue Club. This popular event
will he attended by over five hundred
alumni, who will later adjourn to hear
the Phi Beta Kappa address
A spectacular feature of the even
ing's program will be the torchlight
costume pageant. which, led by the
reunion classes of 1918 and 1911,
CARRIED as Confederate Veterans and
Minstrei-men. respectively, will march
up the brilliantly illuminated lawn to
the rotunda. where the procession
witt he reviewed by Senator John
Sharp Williams, "a President of the
General Alumni Association; Armi-
stead c. Gordon, Is, Rector of the
Board of Visitors. and DR.. Edwin A.
Alderman, President of the Uni
Versity
The business meeting of the Gen
eral Alumni Association will be the
hrst event on Tuesday, Alumni Day,
which will be followed by the alum
nj address. delivered this year by
Hon. A. c. Carson, 49, Associate JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of the Phil
ippines Alumni, faculty. and gradu-
ates will then repair to the alumni
Luncheon, at which tho Glass of 1915
win be welcomed into the Alumni
A ssociation by its President. Senator
Williams, and a response on behalf
of the graduates will be made by the
president. f. Eugene Neff. of Chill
howie, Va.
Alderman To Conclude Program
this part Of the program with his an
nual statement to the alumni, who
will then march up the lawn to the
north front of the rotunda. where
the special exercises of the class of
1915 and the reunion classes Will take
place. The afternoon will be brought
to close hv reception at the Presi-
dents House. given by DR.. and Mrs
Alderman to the alumni and the
graduating class. Later on in the
evening the alumni will gather at
reception rendered by the Colonnade
Club at the Club House on West
Lawn.
The final exercises and comforting
of degrees on the morning of Wednes-
day June 14th. will bring the Uni
versity session to a close. A recep-
ton to the graduates and their rela
tives and a concert on the lawn fill
up the afternoon. In addition to the
events Just enumerated, there are flve
dances: the Delta Tau Delta German
on Monday morning. the 1915 Class
Ball Masque on Monday night. Corks
and Curls Hop Tuesday morning, the
German Club German Tuesday night,
and the Final Ball Wednesday night