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TRIBUTE TO JEFFERSON
WILL BE PAID BY UNIVER-
SITY OF VIRGINIA
One Hundredth Anniversary
Founding Institution Cele- =,
brated Next Week
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.l

Charlottesville, Va, May 30.-The
University of Virginia will celebrate
Lext week the one hundredth ami
versary of it's founding by Thomas
Jefferson. Exercises will begin Tues
day and continue four days with rep
resentatives Of the leading educa-
tional institutions of America and of
nine foreign countries in attendance
Great Britain, France, Belgium,
Switzerland, Spain, China. Chile.
Canada and Norway. The American
delegates will include 52 college
presidents, among them the chief
executives of Harvard, Yale, Prince
ton, Cornell and John Hopkins.
Exercises concentrating the in
duence of the University of Virginia
open the celebration Tuesday morning
when the Rev. William Alexander
Barr. '92, Dean of Christ Church
Cathedral, New Orleans, will preach.
DR.. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton
University will speak at vesper ser
vices in the evening and later the
new McIntire Greek amphiteatre,
will be dedicated. -
Delegates will enroll Wednesday
once swept by fire and once spared
from destruction by Sheridan's raid
ing army through the intercession Of
the late John B. Minor. A reception
by President Edwin A. Alderman and
members Of the faculty will follow.
VIII Welcome Guests
With President Alderman, Governor
Westmoreland Davis of Virginia, 'S5,
later will formally welcome the
c,,ocfc IN rohoH IIon Dr
renee Lowell. Ds president Of Harvard
French Ambassador to the United
States; DR.. Julian Alvin Carroll
Chandler, president OF the College of
William and Mary, and DIR. Albert
Ross Hill, president of Missouri Uni
versity,, will respond.
A table containing the names Of
eighty University Of Virginia men
will be unveiled Wednesday after
noon. John Stewart Bryan, rector of
the University, will accept the tablet
from Captain Alfred Dickinson
Barksdale, representing the alumni,
and M. Gabriel Honotaux, command
er of the French Legion of Honor,
will speak. The university's pageant,
1.-THE Shadow of the Building" will
t Ss EyeP By eas Of o iH the amphi
Led by the class of 1921, the
alumni and guests will parade to- the
Amphitheatre on Thursday to hear
addresses by Sir Aucklandd Geddes,
British Ambassador to the United
States and DIR. John Bassett Moore,
80, of Columbia University. The
Right Reverend Dennis Joseph
O,Connel, Catholic Bishop of Rich
mond, will deliver the invocation.
Pilgrimage To Jefferson's Home
A pilgrimage to Jefferson's home
Monticello" will be made on Thurs
day afternoon, and DR.. Archibald
Cary Coolidge, of Harvard Univers-
ity, lineal descendant of Thomas
Jefferson, will address delegates and
guests from the porch of the historic
mansion. Richard Thomas Walker
Duke, .Jr., IA, whose ancestors were
intimate with Jefferson also will
speak. The pilgrims will visit Jeffer-
sons tomb and decorate it with flow
ers.
On the final day of the Centennial,
Friday, Professional and Academic
degrees Will be I conferred in the
morning and will be followed in the
afternoon by a series Of department
al meetings