Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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Inauguration W ITH impressively simple ceremonies, attended by fifteen hundred delegates, visitors, official guests, alumni and students, Dr. Ernest O. Holland was inducted into the office of president of the State College of Washington on the morning of March 24. The entire inauguration exercises comprised the most important, most interesting single affair held at the college in recent years. In addition to the many eastern colleges and universities who sent delegates to the event, the state government, many civic, industrial and commercial bodies were represented by official guests. The visitors formed the most distinguished group yet entertained in Pullman. The ceremonies opened on the evening of March 23 with the torchlight procession, a beautiful affair in which a thousand marchers, each carrying a lighted Japanese lantern, headed by the college band, proceeded through the residence district to the Northern Pacific depot to greet the incoming delegates and visitors. Following the arrival of the train the procession moved through the business district and back to the lawn in front of the president ' s residence, where informal addresses were made by Governor Ernest Lister, President Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University; President H. M. Suzzallo, of the University of Washington; President W. T. Foster, of Reed College; E. T. Coman, president of the board of regents, and President Holland. The procession was followed on the same evening by the banquet tendered the dele¬ gates and visitors by the faculty and the regents. Rounds of applause greeted every men¬ tion of Dr. E. A. Byran, the retiring president and President Holland in the addresses of Governor Lister, Mrs. Josephine Preston, state superintendent of public instruction; W. J. Sutton, of the state educational commission; W. S. McCrea, of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Mayor Harley Jackson, of Pullman; Dr. Bruce McCully, for the faculty; Hugh C. Todd, ' 06, for the alumni; Dr. Samuel P. Capen, of the United States bureau of education; Professor W. G. Everett, of Brown University; President Win. Lowe Bryan, of the University of Indiana; Professor Edwin M. Hulme, a graduate of Cornell; and President H. M. Suzzallo, of the University of Washington. Four hundred persons at¬ tended the banquet. DEMOCRACY EMPHASIZED. The academic procession was formed Friday morning and included the ex-president and the president of the college, the regents, the speakers of the day, the governor and DR. BRYAN AND PRESIDENT HOLLAND.