Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-04-29
RNAL SATURDAY
May Day Program
AT Willamette

The annual May Day festivities viii
be held next week ON the Willamette
campus, beginning Thursday evening
with the parade which win pass
through the business section OF the city.
The parade will be made up of a num-
Der of gaily decorated autos and trucks
bearing floats.
/ The first auto win contain the May
Day chairman and assistants. Follow
ing will come the May Day Queen with
her attendants. The third auto will car
ry the cast of the Junior play. Sher-
wood"
Trucks bearing floats to advertise
the track meet and baseball game viii
next appear and a third truck win beer
the official waffle-makers for the May
morning breakfast.
The sophomores will follow closely be-
hind dressed in white duck while the
freshman and academy will bring mp
the rear performing stunts, which they
have originated for the occasion.
Friday morning will see the festivi-
ties in full swing. The Y. w. G. A. will
serve May morning breakfast at Lons-
anne hall to the public and many will
take the opportunity to see the white
clad maldens, who are to bring on the
steaming hot cakes md syrup. The
breakfast will last from 6 to $3.50 a. m.
The students will work on the campus
from 7:30 to 10 a. m. and earn meal
check which will allow them to partake
of the student feed the next noon. No
one will be issued a check who has not
worked two hours in cleaning up on the
campus. At 10 O'Clock will occur the
tennis match between Willamette and
Pacific colleges on the cement court on
the east end of the corpus.
The coronation of the May Queen,
Frances l., will take place at 12:45 p.
m. This will necessitate many eating
an early luncheon in order to be present
to see the royal procession start from
Lorsanne hall to the throne on the cam
pus in front of Eaton hall.
James Crawford, a former Willamette
man, who graduated in 1912, will offici-
ate as Lord High Chancellor and will
crown the Queen. Just preceding the
coronation will come the May dances by
the Willamette young ladies under the
direction Of Miss Helen Wastell. These
dances win represent the four seasons
of the year and the costumes for the
various groups will be made according
ly. The summer dancers will be dressed
in flowery goods, the autumn girl in a
brown colored goods and hair flowing,
to typify the blowing breezes and
brown leaves The winter dancers will
be arrayed in pastel blue and will give
dances typifying the whirling snow
Then just before the Queen reaches the
throne a group of Terpsichorean artists
will precede dressed in flowing white
robes and dancing dainty delicate steps
typical of gentle spring. After the
crowning of the Queen the winding o
the May-pole will take place. The
streamers for the May pole will be Law
ender and white.
After the Queens proclamation has
been read, her loyal subjects will all go
to Sweetland field where for the benefit
Of the public and to make a royal Rom
an holiday she will turn her "Bear
Cats" on some famous baseball ninH,
not yet decided upon, and allow them
to make sport for the crowds.
To top off the day and make It L
complete success the queen has arrang-
ed to have a royal play, depicting the
time of Knights and Ladies, staged at
the Grand theatre. This play is to be
none other than Sherwood" " the theme
of which deals with the thriiliog days
of "Robin Hood. "
Saturday the last day of the festiyi'
ties is also well crowded with events
that will take up the whole day. In the
morning o tennis match will be played
between McMinnville and Willamette.
At noon the entire student body is to
eat together on the east end of Sweet
land field at the student feed. The soph-
omOres maving charge of the "eats.
In the afternoon Multnomah Athletic
club will line up against the "Bear
Cats" on the diamond and endeavor to
lose their sealps.
The freshmen will make q public dis
posal of their green caps after the game
and following this the academy tub race
will be held on the swift surface of the
mill race For fear the mill race will
not secure its rightful share of victims
in the previous event, the freshman
sophomore tug-of-war will be held over
the cold depths of the said stream, and
one or the other sides will feel the re-
viving effects Of a cold plunge.
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