Morris tribune., 1920-03-19
COMMENCEMENT DAY
FRIDAY, MARCH rs
Baccalaureate Sermon on Sunday
Evening; Week of Festivities
to Follow

The ninth annual commencement
activities of the West Central School
of Agriculture will begin on Satur-
day evening, March goth and closes
with the graduating exercises on
Friday evening, March 26th at the
Orpheum theatre. At that time
twenty-four students who have COM
pleted the regular course prescribed
for graduation will receive diplomas
from the School of Agriculture. The
program for the graduating exer-
cises is different from that of former
years. 1t will be composed of two
parts--the first part of the evening
is to be made up of series of dem
Onstrations by the students repre-
senting work in the various depart
ments. An actual demonstration Of
hog cholera vaccination will be
staged by the boys in the Animal
Husbandry Department. A farm &C
counting and farm management dem
onstration will be given by the stud
ents in the Agronomy Division while
the boys in the farm engineering
work will stage a tractor demonstra-
tion having a tractor on the stage
and giving complete exhibition of
some of the work done in this divi-
son. The girls in the Home Econo-
mics Department will put on two
demonstrations. The first will be a
style show demonstrating spring and
summer styles of various tpyes of
garments all of which have been
made by the girls in the clothing de-
partment. The Home Management
class will give demonstration show
ing the arrangement of furniture and
equipment in two different kitchens
lone properly arranged and the other
lacking the necessary arrangement
for convenience and utility. These
five demonstrations will occupy the
first half of the program on COM
mencement evening and it is needless
to say that they will be intensely in
teresting from the standpoint of the
audience. The second half of the
evening will be given over to the
REGULAR graduating exercises includ- |
ing program of special music by the |
Girls Sextette and the members of |
the music faculty of the school. The |
Honorable Theodore Christianson of |
Dawson will deliver the commence |
ment address. Mr.. Christianson is a |
speaker of ability and man who has |
had large part in the constructive |
legislation of the last two sessions of |
the State Legislature. He has many |
friends in this community and the |
people of Morris and vicinity will
welcome this opportunity to hear Mr..
Christianson. Superintendent F. E. |
Miller will present the diplomas to
the graduating class. The graduates
come from ten counties in Minnesota.
largely those in the west central por-
tion of the state. The other .activi-
ties of class week include the ALL
School party on Saturday evening,
March goth which will be held in
the gymnasium on the school campus
The baccalaureate sermon will be de-
ivered by Rev. H. H. Symons in the
Congregational church Sunday eve
ming, March 21st. A program of
special music has been arranged and
the citizens of Morris are invited to
attend these services. On Monday eve
ming, March 22nd the four societies |
at the School of Agriculture will give |
a joint literary program for the en-
tire school. On Tuesday evening
superintendent and Mrs. P. E. Miller |
will tender the Senior Glass a recep-
ton. On Wednesday evning, March |
oath, the Senior Glass will present |
their class play, Green Stockings"
in the Orpheum theatre. A special |
Matinee will also be given in the |
afternoon. On Thursday evening
will occur the or-Senior-Alumni |
banquet and dance. This occasion |
is the distinctive social event of the |
entire school year and elaborate pre-
parations are being made by the
Junior class both for the banquet
and the ball to follow.
The general public will be espe-
cially interested in the commence
ment sermon on Sunday evening, the |
class play on Wednesday and the
commencement exercises on Friday. |
There will be no charge made for the
commencement exercises and tn cap
acity of the theatre will be the only
limitation as to the number who can
affopd