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{NHL COLLEGE PICNIC IS HELDSpecial Train Over the O. R. N.Takes Practically Entire Student Body to Scent of WhitmanMassacre.A special train on the (X B. N.line this morning at U o’clock pulledout of the station yards, carrying practically the entire student body, the faculty and a great number of the alumni of Whitman college, bound for the annual picnic and pilgrimage to Waiilatpu.Preparations were made on a larger scale than usual to make the picnic a success. A committee of undergraduates went out to the sceneof the massacre in Harold Crawford’sbuzz-wagon yesterday afternoon to select the site of the picnic, and to put the grounds into shape. Under the leadership of Professor Lyman, the committee on entertainment have prepared a more elaborate program than has formerly graced the occasion, ftnd a new feature of the after-dinner program were the songs by the college glee clubs.The train left the depot at promptly nine o’clock. On arriving at the grounds, a halt was made at the grave of the martyrs, and President Penrose made an address from the base of the marble shaft that overlooks the grave, pointing out the places of interest connected with the mission settlement of Marcus Whitman. . _ .The train will leave the grounds at an early hour, probably about five o’clock, in order to get the crowd home in time for the graduation exercises of Pearson’s Academy, which take place in the chapel at 8 p. m.
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Walla Walla Evening Statesman
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sat, Jun 12, 1909
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