George Washington University - Cherry Tree Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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' WM : tjm Centennial W HE celebration of Centennial Week was opened on Saturday evening. „ ' v February nineteenth, with two departmental banquets, the Arts and Science and the Law School. The Arts and Science was held at the Hotel Willard with Mr. Mussman as Toastmaster. Addresses were made by the President, Dean Hodgkins, Dean Wilbur, and Mr. King, 78. The program included several vaudeville acts staged by the various organizations. The Law School banquet was held at the Franklin Square Hotel, where addresses were made Sv- §gp by Dean Roscoe Pound, of the Harvard Law School; the President of the Alumni As- sociation of the Law School, and the Presidents of the various classes. Dean Ferson ■Mr: ‘ify ' i? was a most able toastmaster. On Sunday afternoon the Centennial Convocation Sermon was preached by the H ■.? - Reverend Dr. Charles AVood at the Church of the Covenant. The June Seniors, donning the Cap and Gown for the first time, took part in the procession which was lead by the : $? Senior Marshals. ss Monday afternoon, the Junior Class held a reception at the Raleigh Hotel for the . .y faculty, student body, and the alumni. There was dancing throughout the afternoon and v- Y a short program was given by the Men’s Glee Club. The University Centennial Dinner, which superceded the usual alumni dinner, was iZ held at Rauscher’s on Monday evening. Among the guests of honor were the French Am- bassador and Madame Jusserand, the Chilean Ambassador and Senora de Mathieu, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Southern, Senator and Mrs. George H. Moses, Senator and Mrs. H. W. if Keys, and many others of prominence, including representatives from one hundred and twenty-five colleges and universities. The Centennial Convocation was held at Central High School on Tuesday after- y ;:. noon, February the twenty-second. The academic procession was composed of the graduating classes, faculty, and representatives from many educational institutions, both $ $• in America and the Continent. • : .;v The greatest social event of the year, the Junior Prom, was held at Rauscher’s on . jf ' £ V;j Thursday, while the Junior Play, The T ruth, was presented Monday evening, the v.’ m ,;‘- ' V v twenty-fourth, at the Central High School Auditorium. 25 .w; % { ’ v. ,-y , - 4 Vv SK Y If i i L

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The One Huneredth Convocation Exercises

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1 9 SAAAl 21- • -T7 ■? M CENTENNIAL CONVOCATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, FEBRUARY 22, 1921 Leaders in the Academic Procession, from Left to Right: His Excellency, Mr. J j. Jusserand, the French Ambassador; His Excellency, Scnor Don Beltran Mathieu, the Chilean Ambassador; His Excellency, Senator V. Roland i Ricci the Italian Ambassador; Honorable Henry White, Former American Ambassador to Italy and also to France, Trustee of the George Washington University; Mr H. B, F, Macfarland 1 rustee of the George Washington Uni- versity: William Miller Collier, former American Minister to Spain, President of the George Washing- ton University. Second row: Professor George N. Henning, Dean of the Graduate School; Professor william A. Wilbur, Dean of Columbian College; Professor Merton L. Ferson, Dean of the Law School; President Charles A. Richmond of Union College, the Centennial Orator (back of and between the Chilean Am- bassador and the Italian Ambassador) ; Col. Charles W. Kutz, Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia 26