The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1921-05-13
INDUCTION OF COFFMAN
CEREMONIES FOR NEWHEAD
STATE UNIVERSITY
Tomorrow Is Cap and Gown
Day; Program Closes On
Saturday Noon
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.]

Minneapolis, May ia holiday
air pervaded the campus of the Uni
verssty of Minnesota as final arrange
ments We're being completed today
for. the Inauguration of Lotud Delta
Coffman as president of the Universe
ty, on Friday morning. The inaugur-
alton ceremonies will cover a period
of three days. beginning tomorrow
with Cap and Gown Day and continu-
ing until Saturday noon.
Reviving custom not in vogue for
ten years, students at the University
will have the opportunity of observing
the inauguration of their president
for the first tine since 1911, when DIR.
George e. Vinct was formally init
ated as head of the institution. Due
to this country being at arms against
Germany in 1917 when the assump-
ton Of DR.. Marion Leroy Burton to
the presidency took place. all social
formalities connected with the event
were dispensed with.
Representatives Universities Arriving.
Representatives of universities from
all over the world, most of them from
this country, however, were arriving
today and number of others are ex-
pected tomorrow and Friday. The at
tendance will include presidents of
many of the prominent educational
institutions in this country and
abroad, representatives of the Nation
al Educational ass ociation and similar
organizations, regents of the Minneso-
ia university, members of the state
legislature state officials and a num-
Der of city and county heads from
the entire state.
redecessors-the trio of presidents
emeritus who went through formal in =
auguration ceremonies-Dr. Coffman
will formally take office following eu-
logistic addresses by the first and
second presidents Of the University of
Minnesota.
William Watts Folwell, first presi-
Cent of the institution from the time
it was organized in 1869 until 1884, will
open the inaugural session with an
address ,A.iday morning. DR.. Cyrus
Northrop, who succeeded DR.. Folwell
in 1884 and continued in office until
1911 when DR.. George Vincent as
sumed the helm, will follow also with
IN address.
Four Former Presidents There.
The actual presentation of DIR. Coff-
man then will be made by Fred B.
Snyder, president of the University
Board of Regents, after which Presi-
dent Coffman will deliver his inaugur-
al address. Although DR.. Vincent will
not speak until Friday night at the
auditorium of the University farm in
st. Paul.
1t had been planned to have all
four former presidents take part In
the Inauguration, but an eleventh
hour refusal was received from DR..
Burton, who advised the committee
on arrangements that it would be i'm
possible for him to attend.
Saturdays feature, besides several
educational conferences between many
OF the visiting delegates, will be the
establishing of a presidents lawn and
campus knoll. Each of the former
heads will plant tree with his own
hands, which will receive especial
care by students and faculty in the
ensuing years as showing their re-
spect for them Dr. Coffman has been
exercising his duties as president
since 1920, when DIR. Burton resigned
to accept the presidency of the Uni
yerSity of MICHIGAN