Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03
SET
FOR june 10 AT Penn
Week of Fesitvies and obser.
vances Opens With Alumni
Hosts to Graduates
GENERAL. WOOD WILL SPEAK

Commencement week at the University
Of Pennsylvania will begin Friday, June
IS, and end with the commencement
exercises at the Metropolitan Opera
Z House, Thursday, June 10.
The week promises to be one of the
most memorable in the history of the
Institution.
June 13, between 6 and 10 p. M, the
members of the graduating classes of
the College, Wharton and Towne Scien
sstific Schools, will be entertained by the
College Alumni Society, after which the
classes will 60 to the Merton Cricket
Club for an informal dance.
Saturday, June II, the senior class
Z and its guests will attend the campus
and later join the annual alumni day
parade at 2 80 on Franklin Field, after
which the new and old graduates will
\ witness the baseball game with Cornell.
Before the game the Alumni will meet
by classes in the various dormitory and
fraternity houses, organize and join the
general parade, which this year prom
ises to be unique in many respects, as
a result Of the service of many alumni in
the great war. Special efforts are being
made by the classes that this year will
celebrate their tenth, twentieth, twen
( ty-f fifth, thirtieth, fortieth and fiftieth
anniversaries.
Most of the classes after the game
will hold their annual reunions in local
hotels and restaurants.
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M The graduation sermon will be de-
livered Sunday, June Is, at old st.
\ Peters, Third and Pine streets, by the
Rev. DR.. Edward NJ. Jefferys. The
trustees and officers of the university
will assemble in the parish building, $40
4 Lombard street, at 10:1O a. m, and
/ proceed tc-the church in body. The
provost, vice provost and deans of the
faculties will wear academic dress. The
students will occupy the auditorium.
Monday evening, June 16, the College,
Wharton and Towne Scientific School
( seniors will hold their last annual din
J ner of undergraduates at the Bellevue
Stratford.
It has been customary for many
years to hold the commencement exer-
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nesday in June. This year the provost
and trustees postponed the commence
ment until Thursday, June 10. We'd
nesday afternoon, June IS, will be de-
voted by the college seniors to the an
nual class day exercises. The seniors
4 will assemble in the triangle" of the
dormitories, when the usual program
will be given, including the valedictory
ivy ode and other features.
Class of Fifty Years Ago
In the evening the class of 1869 will
hold its fiftieth anniversary Of gradu
alton from college. 1t is expected that
at least fifteen of the surviving mem
bers will be present. They will be
the guests of George H. Stuart, Jr.,
923 Clinton street. 49,.
The commencement exercises Thurs
day morning, June 10, will be held at
the Metropolitan Opera House. and
will have quite military aspect. Major
General Leonard Wood will be the ora :
tor of the day, and on the stage with
him will be a large number of high
{ ranking officers of the army and navy.
The ceremonies will begin promptly at
( 10 o'clock. The students will assem-
BILE as usual at Mercantile Hall at 0,
will don academic. costume and march
\ to the opera house,, south on Broad
street to the stage door. The pro-
vost, vice provost, trustees, deans and
members of the faculties and guests of
the day will meet in the promenade of
the Metropolitan Opera House and bring
up the rear of the student procession.
The students will occupy the parquet
and the members of the faculty and
guests the stage. Immediately after
the exercises the provost and trustees
will give luncheon to the guests at
the University Club.