Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-06-10
WESLEYAN FINALS
OCCUR NEXT WEEK
Most Elaborate Commencement OF
Wesleyan College scheduled
June 1921.

The 1915 commencement exercises
at West Virginia Wesleyan College
which comes on the dates of June
1921 inclusive will be featured frs,
OF all by the Inauguration of DR.. Harry
b. Fleming as president of the in.
stitution, and next by the high quality
Of the speakers that have been ar.
ranger for.
On Sunday June 18th DR. Harry G.
Howard will preach the baccaleureate
sermon and on the same evening DR..
McMasters, president Of Mount Union
College will preach the sermon to
the Christian Association. On Mon.
day, June 10Th, the annual oratoric
OF the school of music will be the
main event.
The Choral Union of Wesleyan un-
der the direction of Hugh Judson Ed.
ridge will present THE Rose Maiden
by Cowen. The sole parts will be
taken by Miss Rose Christine Wit,.
mayer head of the department OF
voice, Soprano; Mrs. Richard Aspin
all tnee Maude RusmisoD one of the
raost noted products of Wesleyans
school of music, Contralto; and Pro
fessors Herbert Hurroun and Charles
Henry Adams of the Oberlin Conser
vatory of Music, the Tenor and Bari
tone soles respectfully.
This is unqeustionably the best
Musical offering ever made at a Wes
leyan commencement Tuesday win be
inauguration day with an extensive
Academic parade by all the visiting
representatives of institutions oil
higher learning. the faculty and board
of trustees in full academic costume
and by addresses by DIR. Fleming. DR.
Ezra Triple, president of Drew Theo
logical Seminary whence DR.. Fleming
came, and short addresses by all the
representatives of the educational in
stitution including Ohio WESLEYAN
Mount Nnion, Dickinson, West Vir
ginia, Bethany and a very large mum
Der of others. In the afternoon the
Raymond Science Hall will be for
mally dedicated with an address by
President Herbert WEIGH of Ohio
Wesleyan University, who was but
recently elected a Bishop In the Meth
odist church. Tuesday will also be
Alumni day and will be featured by
monster reunion and banquet al
which it is hoped not less than five
hundred will be present. An extern
sive campaign is on foot among the
almuni and there is every evidence
that a record breaking number of old
graduates will be here.
Wednesday will be commencement
day proper As usual the exercises
will be divided, those for the college
OF liberal arts coming Ia the morning
and those for the departments in the
afternoon. DR. Clarence r.. Allen, pas.
tor of Fourth Street church in Wheel.
ing and who formerly was pastor at
Buffalo, ~ Y, will deliver the address
to the largest number of graduates
Wesleyan has ever had in her college
In the afternoon Bishop William f.
Anderson will make the address. He
is one of the best speakers in the
country and the college is particularly
fortunate in securing him. In al
dition to these main events there will
be many other features including
baseball games on Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday with Ohio WESLEYAN
University-apa rticularly appropriate
opponent for commencement time.
Price contests in Debate and Oratory,
Class Day exercises by the seniors OF
the college; an open air play given
by the Shakesperean club in the OaA
Grove; a formal reception by the
faculty and many other loess impor-
tant events not on the regular pro
gram.
No effort is being spared to make
this commencement the most success.
full that the college has ever had.
Fifteen hundred engraved invitations
have been mailed to prominent Alum
nj, to the heads of other institutions
OF higher learning, and to others in,
terested in Wesleyan's success, for
DR.. Fleming's Inauguration and more
than twice the number of general in
vitations to commencement will be
mailed. Fully fifteen hundred visi-