172nd Commencement
DARTMOUTH'S 172 ND COMMENCEMENT exercises will be held on Sunday evening, June 15, at which time President Hopkins will confer bachelor degrees and honorary degrees in the Bema. President Hopkins' traditional valedictory to the graduating class will be delivered at the final exercises, and in view of the world crisis and the fact that the valedictory will be the President's only address of the weekend, it will be awaited with greater anticipation than usual.
The Commencement program will open Thursday evening, June is, with meetings of the Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council, and will enter its colorful phase with the Class Day exercises on Friday afternoon. President and Mrs. Hopkins will hold their annual garden reception Friday night at 8, to be followed by a glee club concert and the Commencement Ball.
A parade Saturday morning will precede the annual meeting of the Alumni Association in the gymnasium. George M. Morris 'll of Washington, D. C., will preside over the Association meeting and speakers will include President Hopkins; Louis A. Young '4l, president of the graduating class; E. T. S. Lord '9l, speaking for the Fifty Year Class, which will be honored at the meeting; and Roswell Magill 'l6, speaking for the Twenty-Five Year Class. The meeting will be followed by an outdoor buffet luncheon for alumni, faculty, seniors and their fathers. The CornellDartmouth baseball game is scheduled for Saturday afternoon, and the evening's program includes a concert by the Dartmouth College Band, Dartmouth movies, and the performance of The Male Animal by The Players. The traditional Baccalaureate service will be held in Rollins Chapel on Sunday morning at 10. After the Commencement exercises, a concert by the Dartmouth Band and another showing of Dartmouth movies will feature the Sunday night events.
Classes holding reunions during Commencement week-end are 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911 and 1916. The four younger classes—l92l, 1926, 1931, and 1936—wi1l hold their reunions the week-end after Commencement, under a new plan devised to avoid the overcrowding of College facilities and the town.
DR. ROBERT M. STECHER '19 Cleveland and the central states will berepresented on the Alumni Council for thenext three years by Dr. Stecher, succeedingFletcher R. Andrews '16.
