The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
U. OF v. CENTENNIAL
TO BE CELEBRATED.
TUESDAY.
Delegates from All Over
World Will Attend
Ceremonies.

-SofnpietinB a century OF service
to the nations and state. the Univer-
sity Of Virginia on Tuesday will cel-.
ebrate its Tooth anniversary. rh.
exerciseSwilI continue for four DAYS
and will be attended by delegates
from the leading universities and
educational institutions of Europe
and America.
Though 100 years have passed
since, Thomas Jefferson author of
the Declaration of Independence and
third President of the United states
founded his Athens of the South"
the institution Is proud that 1t still
cherlshes the old ideals and tradI-
tions fostered by the sage of Mon
ticello and nurtured by Madison ard
Monroe, who were members of It's
first board of visitors.
The honor system, established in
1882, and since adopted by scores of
schools and colleges still regulates
the relations of students. In its
record of achievement, the uniyer
sity points out that more than pe-
cent of the 22.600 men who have
passed from its halls. have given
their lives to public service. States
manship. arts and letters have been
stressed in graduate and undergrad
uate work. Edgar Allen Poe and
woodrow Wilson are among the
many notables who studier here.
Worldwide Delegates.
England. France, Belgium. Switz-
eriand- Spain, China, Chile, Scotland,
Canada and Norway are sending deI-
egates- Oxford, Cambridge. and the
universities of Brussels, Shanghai
and Toronto are among the colleges
represented. American delegates
will come from 10 universities and
educational institutions and include
hfty-two college presidents. The
chief executives of Harvard. Prince
ton, Yale. Cornell and Johns Hop
kins are representing the institu-
tions named. The total number of
visitors and guests will exceed
5000
Exercises commemorating the in
fiuence of the University of Virginia
in the religious life of the nation
will open the celebration Tuesday
morning in Cabell hall. The Rev.
william Alexander Barr, 80, dean of
Christ church cathedral, New Or
leans. vii preach. Henry Van Dyke,
of Princeton university, will speak
at vesper services in the evening
and later the new McIntire Greek
ampitheater. erected at a cost of
S10S,0e0, will be dedicated Hum
phrey John Stewart, municipal or
ganist of San Diego, Cal. will give
a recital in connection with the ded-
ication.
n1
will enroll in the historic rotunda,
once swept by fire and later spared
from destruction by Sheridan's
raiding army through the inter-
cession of the late John B. Minor.
Delegates will present their creden-
tials and greetings and will attend
a reception by President Edwin A.
Alderman and members of the fac
ulty.
Ceremonies of Welcome.
With President Alderman. Gov.
westmoreland Davis, of Virginia,
IS, will formally welcome the
guests in Cabell hall. DR.. A. Law
renee Lowell. president of Harvard
university. Jules Jusserand, French
ambassador to the United States;
DIR. Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler,
president OF the College of William
and Mary, and DR.. Albert Ross Hill.
president of Missouri university.
will respond.
On Wednesday afternoon, a tablet
containing the names of so Univer-
sity of Virginia men who made the
supreme sacrifice in the world war
will be unveiled. John Stewart
Bryan, rector of the university will
accept the tablet from Capt. Alfred
Dickenson Barksdale. representing
the alumni and NJ Gabriel Homo
taux, commander of the French
Legion of Honor will speak.
A reception at the preident's
home will follow and in the evening
visitors and guests will witness the
university's pageant, The Shadow
of the Builder" to be given in the
amphitheater by a cast of 1000.
Led by the class of 1921, the
alumni and guests will parade to
the amphitheater on Thursday
morning to hear addresses by Sir
Auckland Geddes, British ambassa-
dor and DIR. John Bassett Moore, so
of Columbia university. The Right
Rev. Dennis Joseph O'Connell.
Catholic bishop of Richmond, will
deliver the invocation and DIR.
Henry Wilson Battle, pastor of the
High Street Baptist church, Char
lottesville, will ask the benediction.
Pilgrimage to Monticello.
The visitors will make a pilgrim
age to Monticello on Thursday af-
ternoon, and DIR. Archibald Cary
Coolidge, of Harvard university, a
lineal descendant of Thomas JEFF
ferson, will address delegates and
guests from the porch of Jefferson's
home. Richard Thomas Walker
Duke. jr., IA, whose ancestors were
intimate with jefferson will also
speak.
,The pilgrims will visit Jefferson's
tomb and decorate 1t with flowers.
A dinner to delegates will round
out the day. Speakers include DR..
Harry woodburn Chase, president
of the University of North Caro-
lima, head of the Brady Foundation
of Urology, Baltimore, and president
of the University of Virginia Gen.
eral Alumni association; NJ. Gabriel
Honotaux and John Stewart Bryan.
Friday will be the final day OF
the centennial. Professional and
academic degrees will be conferred