 | The University of Virginia record May, 1908 |  |
Calendar.
Monday, June 1—Thursday, June 11—
Final Academic Examinations.
Tuesday, June 9—Friday, June 12—Entrance
Examinations.
Sunday, June 14—Baccalaureate Sermon;
Address before the Young Men's
Christian Association.
Monday, June 15—Annual Meeting of
the Board of Visitors; Address before the
Literary Societies; Final Celebration of
the Literary Societies.
Tuesday, June 16—Alumni Day: Address
before the Alumni; Annual Meeting
of the Alumni.
Wednesday, June 17—Final Night;
Closing Exercises of the Session.
On April 10 the University was favored
by a visit from Dr. Robert Irving Fulton,
Dean of the College of Oratory in
the Ohio Wesleyan University. Dr.
Fulton was a student in the law department
here in 1877, and came back to
Virginia with the true spirit of an alumnus.
In the afternoon he gave an address
on the art of public speaking, which
was heard with enjoyment and profit by
a fair-sized audience. At night, when he
generously gave an excellent program
of unusually good readings for the benefit
of the Y. M. C. A., it is to be regretted
that the audience was very small.
Those present were most profitably entertained,
and were ready at the close to
second Dr. Alderman's recent statement,
that Dr. Fulton is the best exponent of
his subject in this country.
The annnal election, on May 2, of officers
for the General Athletic Association
resulted in the choice of the following
men: Charles Brown Crawford, of Theological
Seminary, Va., president; Mark
Roy Faville, Dolgeville, N. Y., vice-president;
Charles Francis Cocke, Roanoke,
Va., and James Alcorn Rector, Hot
Springs, Ark., members of advisory
board.
The part of the campus adjacent to the
northeast wing of the Hospital is being
improved by regrading and the construction
of much needed walks.
As usual, the Easter number of the
University Magazine is of special weight
and attractiveness. Eight pieces of verse,
three stories, a critical essay, and easy
chair essay combine with other features
to make the reader interested.
The University band, announced in
the March Record, has made its debut,
and is now regarded as an essential factor
in college life.
On Friday night, May 8, the annual
contest of the Central Oratorical League
was held in Cabell Hall. Visitors participating
represented the University of
Chicago, Cornell University, and Ohio
Wesleyan University. The University
of Virginia was represented by Mr. D.
R. Fonville of North Carolina, who tied
for first place with Mr. G. G. Bogert of
Cornell. Mr. C. A. Bales of Chicago
was given second place. Mr. A. C.
Schatzman of Columbus, Ohio, represented
Ohio Wesleyan University.
The orators and their friends were entertained
after the contest at a bauquet
by the local chapter of the Delta Sigma
Rho Society.
The Judges, Congressman DeArmond
of Missouri, Dean Wilbur and Prof.
Vance of George Washington University,
Prof. Bowen of Randolph-Macon,
and Supt. Fulton of the Miller School,
were given a reception by the Colonnade
Club.
The following items should form a part
of the lists of donations given on the
first pages of this issue of the Record:
From Dr. George Tucker Harrison of
New York, 180 volumes, including a set
of Buffon's great work, Histoire Naturelle.
(1907.)
From some Jewish gentlemen of Richmond,
at the suggestion of Dr. E. N.
Calisch, a set of the Jewish Encyclopedia,
12 volumes. (1908.)
From Mr. R. Hall McCormick of Chicago,
a portrait of his father, Mr. Leander
J. McCormick, for the observatory.
From the same, a six-inch refracting
telescope for the observatory.
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