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13Fie MINN~~0TA ALUMNlwrI:KLY Thursday. June 12. 1924 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• • [,'p She Gors" Alumni Day June 17th- Cornerstone of'Stadium to be laid at 5:00 P. M. immediately bef'ore Alumni Dinner at Men's Union- Class of'191 arranges snappy program- New --Fight Song" to be p sented- Pageant 'n everything! 590 THE llNNESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY •, Elect an Alumnus GAt' M~ Alunmi WeQ)dq-- CHIEF JUSTICE SUPREME COURT LELAND F. PllTERSEN Editor and ~tanager CECIL PEASE .•.... Associale Editor E. S. MANN ....•• Literary Editor WALTER RICE ......Stlldent Editor M. J. FADELL ........ Sports Editor HUGH H UTTON ....•••... Cartoonist ADVISORY COMMITTEES EDITORIAL-Ray P. Chase, Wil­ liam W. Hodson, Rewey Belle Inglis, Agnes Jacques, Jamn H. Baker, chairman. ADVERTISING-J oseph Chapmall, Wesley King, Horace Kiein, Albert B. Loye, Wm. B. Morris. FACTS FOR NEW SUBSCRIBERS Subscription: Life (with life mem­ bership) $50, at $12.50 a year. Yearly (without membership), $3. Subscribe with central office or local .ecretarie •. The Minnelota Alumni Weekly is published by the General Alumni As­ sociation of the University of Minne­ sota, 202 Library Building, niversity Campus, on Tbursday of each week during the regular sessions. Entered at the post office at Minne­ apolis as second-class matter. JUDGE Member of Alumni Magazines As- sociated, a nationwid~ organization selling advertising as a unit. Horace D. Dickinson The U nn.versity C~Jendar Thursday, J,,,,,' 12 U of M Law '90 President's Reception-Senior cl oss will be enkrtained at his home. S :10 p. m. Sunday, June 15 Present presiding Judge Baccalnureate Sermon-Will take place ill Fourth Judicial District Armory, 3 o'clock. Rev. H. C . Sweoringen. speaker. Judge Dickinson spent his boyhood on a farm in Dakota oun­ Monday, June 16 ty, I innesota. Reunion-Cia .. of '04 will mtet at din "er in Minnesota Union to celebrate 20th an­ From the district school and the public schools and through the niversary, 6 o'clock. niversity of Minnesota, he entered the legal profession. Tuesday, June 17 Alumni Day-Alumnae Tea in ::\!innesot, Admitted to the Bar in 1890; practiced law for ten years, and Union, 4 o'clock; Laying of Stadium Corner­ has been a Judge on the District Bench for twenty years. stone, 5 o'clock; Alumni Banquet in ;\1illlle- 50ta Union, 6 o'clock. fI' ednesday, June 18 Commencement Exercises - Address by William Oxley Thompson, preside"t of Ohio State University, 10 a. m. Prepared and inserted by A. M. Shaw for Judge H. D. Dick­ Tuesday, Junt 24 inson, Minneapolis, Minn., which is to be paid for at regular Summer Session-Classes begin for first rates. &cmester, 8 a. m. Summer Exhibitions--Paintings owned by ;\finneapoli. people, Chinese and Spani.h shawls, Qnd rare Inces will be displayed at the Minneapoli. Institute of Arts. ~lte Alumni Weekl1f:__ _ 1924 ALUMNI DAY* And then the entertainment I We can't tip our whole hand here, bUJ suffice it to say that there AKING UP what has now become a will be plenty of good music, special stunts by the time-honored Minnesota tradition, the five year classes (1919,1914,1904, etc.), a C) class of 1914 assumes responsibility for real pageant, and other things. Someone in the the program for Alumni Day, 1924. Ten years class of 1904 has written a new "fight song" is quite a time in which to prepare for ope eye­ which promises to be a sensation. This song ning's entertainment, yet none too long, ]UdglOg will be "tried on the dog" at the dinner. (Those from the last minute scurryings around to com­ who feel they must fight are requested to retire plete arrangements. to the corridors.) June 17 is the date. Mark it down now, so Somewhere during the evening Ebie Pierce that you won't forget it. will introduce his one-act drama entitled "A You won't have to break away from the office Brief Business Session of the Alumni associa­ quite so early this year. The first event on the tion." This promises to be painless but effective. program comes at 5 p. m., when the cornersto~e And last, but by no means least, we will wind up of the new Memorial stadium will be laid. ThiS with a good old dance. A peppy orchestra has is an occasion no loyal alumnus can afford to been provided, the kind that makes the flapper miss-the culmination of years of agitation and want to park her corset in the cloakroom. effort. Our dreams are coming true out there All in all, we promise you a good time. An­ on Oak Street and University Avenues. Those gels could do no more. Won't you come? Re­ of you who have not been ne~r the place recently member the date, Tuesday evening, June 17. are going to have the surpnse of your roung Be on hand at five o'clock for the laying of the lives when you see what ~as been accomphshe~. Stadium cornerstone if you can, but in any case, So much of the Stadium IS already up that It don't miss the dinner at six and the evening of looks as if the Homecoming Game could be fun , frivolity and friendship. played on the new field after all. Norman M!t­ ----------~----------------.., chell, who is heading up the program c?mm~(­ lee, promises that a real Minnesota celebnty ~11l Of Course You're Coming have charge of the cornerstone ceremome.s. DEAR ALUMNUS : Is your calendar marked for June 17? Reserve the date Leave it to Norm. This will be good and Will now for Alumni Day. take place at the Oak street end of the Stadium. It's the regular annual meeting and banquet of the General Alumni associ ation, of which you are, or ought to be, 8 life Don't miss it. member. The Alumni dinner will follow at the Men's Members of the same class will sit at the same table. Decide DOW that you are coming. Then, send in the at· Union. Six o'clock is the scheduled hour. Ar­ tached reservation coupon. Your ticket will be waiting for rangements for this part of the festivities are in ) ou at six o'clock at the l\finnesotn Union. the capable hands of Ruth Elwell and Florence G~NElIAL ALUMNI ASSOClATION, Swanson said to be the two best girls in the 202 Library Building, U. of M., linneapolis. class of'1914. (If you dispute this statement Please reserve for me ........................ plate. at $1.25 each for the Alumni Dinner, Tuesday evening. June 17, 6 o'clock, you will be given opportunity to enter your can­ in the Minnesota Union. didate.) We can promise you that the ~inner alo~e ~il1 be worth much more than the prIce of admiSSIOn. N Al\f E ........................ ............................. ¥u.............. CLAss.... ....... " *This editorial, by the publicity man of th nss of 1914. benrs ADDRESS ................ .......................................................... _ ............ .. out our forecast that the dass of '14 is goin. a stage one of the livest reunion~ evrr held . t 592 THE MIN ESOTA ALUMNI WEEKLY I will make g.ood use of the rare and interesting books therein? What greater thing could he do th.an ~o donate that collection to the University at MlI:nesota, w~ose ~ew library will fittingly house It, whose Size Will make it available to a majority of sincere knowledge-seekers in that particular field? \Vhen collections of this sort do come to the HE niversity Library is about to move ~ ni\'er . ity t~ey should be housed, preferably and into its great new home-a structure Il pOSSible, tn their own separate room corner built for the future as well as for the or . helf, and stamped with bookplates o'f speciai O present, designed to meet the needs of the design commemorating the gift. " The true University for many years to come, to acc om­ university," says Carlyle, "is a collection of !"ll0da~e twenty ~housand students were the reg­ books. " IstratIOn to attain those proportions in the next PRINT 51-10P decade. A million dollars seems a huge amount of !"ll0n~y t? expend on brick and mortar ; ye::t a ~!1lverslty IS usually judged (in so far as build­ I~gs form criter.ia) by the size and beauty of its library. And nghtly, too, for the library is the Parthenon of the intellect, the temple of the Thought of the ages .... As they house their HI is the final number of the L ';\- l ~I books, so shall ye know them. linnesota's new W EEKLY for thi school year, and witll this closing paragraph we extend thank library will amply uphold her pride. O to all those alumni, faculty, and under­ Now that, to use the words of Omar, " the graduates who have helped make the AL U M ~1 temple is prepared within . " what have we yYEEKLY what it is today. Particularly do we to put inside? Many books, good books, but not wish to express our appreciation of the work enough good books. We want the best books of done by those students who have worked un elf­ the past, the best of the present, the best that ishly and without remuneration during the year, will be published in the future. Books that are Walt.er ?ur s.tudent editor (but recently mellowed with the tone of time and a re musty L. R~ce, appointed edltor-In-chlef of the Daily), and Sam and yellowed on the edges; books that smell of brams and Mike Fadel, ports editors; also to printer's ink with the pages still uncut-books the regular members of our staff is thanks due : illustrated and un-illustrated, bound and un­ to iViiss Pease who takes care of your address bound; but books that hold between their covers changes and writes the feature articles and Per­ personalities and ideas, stimulating, dynamic, sonalia items that are so interesting, to Miss propulsive.

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