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- . 127:3: r: s: ..v. . 1. . r. i : U 9 g G ,, . . M . a a w ; Am i '5 213413ng E!1umlr! IQQIIWJ 8 QWIMJ In Jefferson,s active membership in the days of its beginning were men who afterwards won fadeless laurels,-Poe and Thompson among theme and in later times unforgettable Americans like Woodrow Wilson, who was a iiJeff man at the University and a Jeffersonian in the turmoil of the greatest world problem for whose solution American sanity and genius have wrought and sacrificed for the salvation of mankind. Is any other student literary and forensic society in America equally as iianeient and honorable? For a great many years, and until a time Within the memory of many, iicommencement at the University was a social event of deep interest in Virginia. Representatives of the beauty and chivalry of the State came to dance the german, attend the hops? hear the invited orators, and crowd the Public Hall on the evenings the iiJefF, and the iiWasH' Literary societies iicelebratedf, Many of the iiold boys,' remember the splendid spectacle afforded on those evenings when the Rotunda and the Public Hall were a blaze of light, and it seemed impossible that any avenue could be so noble and dazzling as the one from the portico through the Rotunda and connecting porch into the great hall, where the whole view ended in the rostrum and Raphaehs assembled philosophers. Even the architectural assessories of the great paintingathe portico, the columns, and high arched portals,--seemed details of the public hall itself. The hall,s acoustics were not good, perhaps but a thousand young men and women filling the floor and galleries,-undis-, turbed by poor acoustics,-a dozen ushers rushing about with gay batons until they trouped their colors over the aisle in honor of the Faculty, Board, orators, and distinguished guests, in stately progress to the rostrum, made a picture full of color and movement and altogether good to look upon. It was a duty the Society owed to itself and the University to signalize its centenary by taking stock of its hundred years of existence, full of service in many ways. William P. Sandridge, Jr., of Lynchburg, Va., William D. Bogue, Tampa, F 1a., Charles L. Cleaves, University, Va., Edward W. Gregory, Jr., Chase City, Va., George P. Gunn, Lynchburg, Va., James D. Lovelace, Farmville, N. C., and Thomas A. McEachern, Greenville, Miss, planned the commemoration. The celebration took place November 18, 1925, in conformity with their program. Lectures in the University were suspended, and Cabell Hall, the scene, was crowded to hear Senator Oscar W. Undere wood, of Alabama, once President of the iiJeff, President Edwin A. Alder! man, and the iiJeff's personal leader, its. president, Fred H. Quarles, Jr., of Charlottesville. IZOI
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