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William and Mary has remained one of the "small colleges" of Webster's famous classification, with a celebrity and an influence out of proportion to its size. The oldest college in the South and next to Harvard the oldest in the country, it has a roster of graduates who of themselves make an American Hall of Fame. Washington received from William and Mary his first public office and was Chancellor of the college in 1794. It is the Alma Mater of three Presidents of the United States, Jefferson, Monroe and Tyler; of four signers of the Declaration of Independence...
...half hour earlier than the time of previous years. When the head of the procession reaches the steps of Memorial it will halt, and each couple of men will separate, each member facing inward thus forming two ranks with an open avenue between. The last two men, the oldest members, will then pass up the aisle, the others following them in reverse order, so that the oldest members enter the floor of Sanders first and take the front seats...
...School--The oldest Law School in Chicago, offers a complete quarter's work in the summer school beginning June 21, and ending August...
Joseph Lee '83, the foremost expert in the country on playground recreation work, John D. Adams, one of the oldest settlement workers in Boston, and Walter I. Trumbull '15 will be the principal speakers at the informal dinner to be given by the Social Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House on Monday evening at 6.15 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. The dinner, to which all men in the University who are interested in Social Service work are invited, is for the purpose of developing cooperation between the workers in Harvard and those in the Boston settlement...
...celebration of the 112th anniversary of its founding, the Pierian Sodality will hold its annual banquet tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock in the Tower Room of Memorial Hall. The Pierian Sodality was founded in 1808 and is, according to statistics, the oldest orchestra in this country. When first founded the Pierian players were used as a fife and drum corps in the war of 1812. Later the organization developed into an orchestra for serenading the young ladies of Cambridge. Although its activities were curtailed during the War, the organization has now regained its former standing as a symphony orchestra...