The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1917-06-01
bMMENCEMENT BEGINS
AT NEWBERRY COLLEGE
~.irst Exercises on Saturday Evening.
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday
Morning.

Sa<1FSt EXorc1ScS Oh SATURDAY EtCAiaAos
Baccalaureate Sermon Sunday
Morning.
The sophomore contest in declama-
tion will start the exercises of COM
mencement week Saturday night II
Holland Hall at $50 o'clock. Fig
sophomores will compete for the be
tiful medal provided by the Excelsior
and Phrenakosmian Literary societies.
The services Sunday will be held
as usual in the opera house. In the
morning the baccalaureate sermon Will
be preached by the Rev. F. G. GotWalo,
editor of the Lutheran Church work
and Observer, of York, Pa. The SEN
ior class will proceed from the cam
pus to the opera house Sunday morn
ing in cap and gown, accompanied oy
the faculty.
Sunday evening the services will be
in charge of the college Y. NJ. Z. A.
and the address will be made by the
Rev. ". Y. Boozer of Leesville, S. c.,
of the class of 1891.
Class day exercises will be held as
usual Monday morning at O:30
O'Clock on the campus by the senior
class. Interesting features will marx
the program. Mr.. O. B. Mayer, Jr.,
president of the class, will preside. i.
The annual meeting of the board OF
trustees will take place in Holland
hall Monday afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock:
1t is expected that practically all OF
the % trustees will attend.
At the opera house Monday night
six members of the junior class Will
contest for the Kinard medal in ora
tory. The contest begins at s:5o
O'Clock. The medal is given by two
winners of this medal in former years,
the brothers. the Rev. NJ. M. Klnard
and the Rev. James D. Knard.
Tuesday morning at 10:30 O'Clock
the alumni of the college meet. The
president, B. V. Chapman, ESQ., IS
looking forward to a large and en-
thusiastic meeting. Prof. Monts OF
Cochran, Ca, of the class OF 1893, Will
make the annual address. He rs a
hne speaker.
Tuesday night the college and COM
munity will have the pleasure OF hear
ing President John E. White OF An
derson college in the literary address
at the opera house at $50 O'Clock.
The graduating and closing exercls-
es will be held on Wednesday morning
in the opera house at 10:3o o'clock
with the granting of diplomas and an
nouncement of honors and degrees.
eserings will be taken at both SER
vices on Sunday as usual. This is
necessary to defray the expenses OF
the work.
Examinations close On Saturday OF
this week and a great many students
will leave at once for home, in view
of conditions created by the war.
Nine young men of the senior class
are serving the colors and others are
at home preparing te enlist. A large
number will not be present Wednes-
day to receive their diplomas in per-
son.
The military company has disband-
ed for the session. But the college
will provide training in military tao
tics next year for the students.
commencement is community
event and the college and town usual
" cooperate in an admirable manner
to make the sojourn of the Visitors
present.
The seniors of the present year have
taken life insurance in favor or the
college to the amount of over S2,OoO.
This is a senior custom at Newberry.
Each takes out a policy for s1OO to
mature in ten years. A class reunion
is planned for the tenth year to de-
eide the way in.which the money shall
be used for the college.
A reception will be held in honor
of the seniors Friday night at the
home of President and Mrs. Harms.
The people of Newberry and the
surrounding country need no invita-
tion to the exercises of commencement
week. All are always welcome to en-
10Y the occasion.
The Newberrian has just come from
the press. 1t is the best annual ever
issued at Newberry Mr.. o. B. Mayer,
Jr is the editor in chief, and he had
with him a corps of able assistants IN
his class.
DIR. Gotwald, who breaches the bac-
calaureate sermon Sunday, is the soa
OF the Rev. F. A. Gotwald, deceased,
who preached the baccalaureate SER
mon to the class Of 1880, 81 years ago.
The members of the class of 1886
were: Col. Elbert H. Aull, the Rev,
A. ]. Bowers, D. D., John B. Jones,
ESQ. (deceased), the Rev. N. 0. j..
Krens D. D.. Burr James Ramage,
ESQ. (deceased}, the Rev. B. B. RAM
age, the Rev. J. W. S. Sheppard.