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The Diamond Jubilee of Austin College Continued the various stages in the development of the college by means of a series of floats. On Sherman’s behalf the parade represented the celebration of both the seventy- fifth anniversary of Austin College and the successful completion of the hundred thousand dollar campaign for Presbyterian colleges in Texas, from which Austin College will profit so much. Following the historical parade, Austin College defeated the Southern Methodist University 8 to 6 in a baseball contest at Cashion Fidid. The Jubilee alumni banquet, one of the high points of the cele- bration, was held Tuesday evening, with Dr. T. O. Perrin of Dallas as toastmaster. A popular alumni meeting in Sherman Hall followed the banquet. The principal speakers were three men who attended Aus- tin College before 1876, while the institu- tion was located at Huntsville. Colonel A. T. McKinney, son of the first president of the college, and the oldest living ex- student of the institution, of the class of 1853, spoke on the early history of the college at Huntsville, and of the work of the early pioneers who made such great sacrifices to sustain the infantile college. President H. F. Estill, of the Sam Houston Teachers’ College at Huntsville, dwelt on the growth of Austin College during the middle period of its history, in his address on “The Accomplishments of Austin Col- lege Ideals.’’ The third speaker was Colonel Thomas H. Ball, who also attended Austin Thomas R. Marshall College while it was located in Huntsville. Commencement Speaker He addressed the alumni and visitors on “Denominational Colleges and Christian Citizenship.” The famous Athenaeum Quartette of 1907 was revived for the occasion and constituted a pleasing feature of the evening’s entertainment. June 4th was the final day of the Diamond Jubilee and consisted primarily in the commencement exercises. Prior to the formal occasion, however, a student body meeting was held on the campus, at which E. D. Grant, of Nash- ville, Tennessee, of the class of 1920, briefly addressed the assembled students. The governing authority of the student body was officially transferred from
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The Diamond Jubilee of Austin College Continued Historic Float in Jubilee Parade R. B. Newman, ’24; J. H. Lain, ’25; E. M. Weir, '26, and V. L. Tuck, '27, spoke briefly, following which the regular class progressional ceremony was witnessed, by which the members of the Diamond Jubiliee class were trans- formed into alumni. At this service also the Diamond Jubilee Chromascope was officially presented to President T. S. Clyce, to whom the book was dedi- cated. Garland H. Land of the class of '07 addressed the student body after these preliminary exercises. Athletic events of “get-acquainted” day consisted of tennis matches between Trinity University and Austin College on the caq pus in the morning and an alumni game in the afternoon, between teams, one repre- senting the Nineteenth Century and the other the Twentieth Century. Monday evening in Luckett Hall a banquet was tendered all men who had won their letter in some collegiate sport. The second day’s program was fittingly closed by the Jubilee Concert presented in Sherman Hall by the musical organizations of the college. Tuesday, June 3rd, “alumni day,” was featured by the annual meeting of the alumni association, on this notable occasion greatly swelled in attend- ance, and many class and group reunions. At two-thirty in the afternoon an elaborate parade was staged through the business section of the city. This parade, in which the faculty, members of the student body, alumni and visitors participated, and for which the city had been appropriately decorated, depicted
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