Evening star., 1925-05-31
c. v. j. GRADUATES
NUMBER ABOVE 400
Commencement Exercises
Scheduled for Wednesday.
Program Opens Today.

The one hundred and fourth COM
mencement exercises of George Wash
ington University will be concluded
Wednesday night with the graduation
of more than four hundred students
at the Washington Auditorium. Rev.
Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of New
York win deliver the graduation
address.
Rev. Dr. Charles Wood will deliver
the invocation and President William
Mather Lewis will preside. The pres
ident of the board of trustees, John B.
Larner, members of the board, the
university council, the president s
council and other university officials
will be present.
The public is invited to the eXer-
cises which start at 8 pm. Tickets
may be obtained at the president Of
fee of the university. The commence
ment exercises will be broadcast by
WCAP.
Concluding features of the com.
mencement exercises for the week
start today. AT 2:3o pm, on the uni
versity grounds at Corcoran Hall,
Bishop Henry st. George Tucker will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon.
Rev. DR.. Earle Wiley will deliver
the invocation. The University Glee
Club, directed by Misha Gutterson and
led by Robert Harmon, will sing.
Tomorrow at noon, at the Cosmos
Club, the university board of trustees
will meet at luncheon. The annual
meeting will follow.
The annual pilgrimage also will be
held tomorrow to Mount Vernon and
Headed by Gen. John A. Lejeune, a
large gathering of alumni and stu
dents will attend brief exercises. at
which time Cen Lejeune will lay a
wreath on WaShington's tomb. Alumni
and their friends are invited to at
tend the exercises. The party leaves
by boat at 10 am.
At 2:30 pm. tomorrow at the East
ern High School Stadium. the annual
Faculty. Pyramid Honor Society base
ball game will be held. This event is
faculty men as we'll as the fraternity
interests.
Reception Tuesday Afternoon.
Tuesday FROM to pm. President
and Mrs. William Mather Lewis will
receive the members of the gradual.
ing classes, the faculties, the univer-
sity council and the board of trustees
in Corcoran Hall in the annual recep-
ton.
Wednesday morning will be given
over to the class day exercises which
will be staged on the university
grounds near Corcoran Hall at 10 am.
The university started the annual
round of events incident TO the COM
mencement Wednesday at the Wash.
inkton Club. when the general alumni
association elected Gilbert L. Hall as
president. The vice presidents chosen
were DR. Frank A. Hornaday, Eliza
beth Earnest Springston. f. Roger
Boyle, g. Carroll Todd and PhilbriCk
Mccoy. Rosemary Arnold was elected
secretary treasurer President and
Mrs Lewis and Mr.. and Mrs. John B.
Larner received the alumni and
seniors after the annual meeting.
The annual dance of the gradual
ing class of the Nurses School was
held in Corcoran Hall Wednesday
night The dance was conducted by
Elizabeth Storey, Melissa Chamber
lin. Rae Brown and Armae WetZeL
Last night the nurses held a banquet
at the Franklin Square Hotel.
Thursday night in tAe university
gymnasium High School Night was
celebrated. Members of the senior
classes of the Washington high
schools were specially invited to an
entertainment at which various uni
versity student activities gave an elab-
crate program. The affair was under
the direction of Fl. Watson Crum,
director of athletics. .-
Senior Glass Prom.
Friday night the annual senior class
promenade was held at the Willard
Hotel.
Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., a member
of the board Of trustees of the uni
versity. represented George Washing
ton Friday at the. fiftieth anniver
sary of Wellesley College.
Announcement is made that n. Ian
don BurcheIl will head the Stockton
memorial committee. DR.. Douglas
Putnam Birnie. Admiral Willard H.
Brownson, Col. Archibald Hopkins,
Walter Stilson Hutchins, Nicholas
Luquer. Ord Preston, Capt. F. B. P.
Sand, Col. Robert NJ Thompson Dean
William Allen Wilbur and Vernon H.
Brewster have been named on the
committee.
II is proposed to raise $4,000 to
equip a room in memory of the late
Rear Admiral Charles Herbert Stock
ton, former president of the univer-
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