Commencement Held With Baccalaureate Sermon
The commencement events began in an auspicious manner yesterday afternoon with the baccalaureate sermon delivered to honor graduates and mark the academic ceremony.
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Newspaper
Iowa Citizen
Location
Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1903
Page
1
The commencement events began in an auspicious manner yesterday afternoon with the baccalaureate sermon delivered to honor graduates and mark the academic ceremony.
The University of Iowa closing exercises began with Rev Dan F Bradley preaching on The Making of a Man in the opera house. President MacLean urged loyalty to alma mater and country, while the audience, crowded lines into the street, heard about duty, work, and self in a democratic university setting.
Mr and Mrs W L Lamb of Fairmont Minnesota are visiting in the city at Miss Louise Reise s home Their mother Mrs Lamb is the daughter of former city resident John Nauerth Lamb who graduated from the state university law department twenty five years ago calls the university grown beyond recognition and notes local progress They will stay through commencement and expect to reconnect with old friends
Chief Engineer Joseph Wardel of Cedar Rapid announced that construction will begin on the first four miles this week. Cash Brothers hold the contract for the Cr I C and S RR project, with all sections in progress within two weeks. The grading effort signals Cedar Rapid’s electric road nearing completion and Town City eyes rapid urban growth within the year.
Patriotic women display Old Glory at homes to mark the flag’s 120th anniversary. Members of the national organization of the W R C are following instructions to observe the day as the flag’s anniversary. Long may it wave.
Ex Mayor Charles Lewis entertains relatives Mr and Mrs A S Burrows Mr and Mrs S P Gilbert Mr and Mrs Luke Palmer all Burlington residents and state university graduates. They arrived today as Mrs Lewis remains under Burlington surgeons care for injuries from a prior accident with a broken arm and painful sprain.
Carpenters are urged to attend a Tuesday evening gathering at the regular place for the regular election of officers and important business. By order of the president.
Residents complain of hazardous rural roads around Iowa City. The North Liberty to Coralville route, about three miles north of the city, is described as impassable in places with mire holes and a bridge marked impassable. Several city visitors were forced to turn back due to the dangerous travel conditions.
The Iowa Brewing Company wagon driven by William Ruppert overturned on Dubuque Street in front of the Y.M.C.A. building after a neck yoke broke. The wagon tipped, spilling most of the beer. two cases were broken, driver uninjured.
Dean Charles Noble Gregory will depart Iowa City June 22 for New York then sail to Naples. He plans a July summer journey with friends and will attend the October London meeting of the International Law Society. He will visit prominent European sites and deliver an address on Jurisdiction Over Ships in Territorial Waters before returning home. The lecture marks a notable honor for Gregory and the university law department.
The Silver Anniversary of Reverend Father Davis of the Davenport diocese will be celebrated at the see cathedral tomorrow morning. Father Ward will attend as deacon with a full ceremonial of high mass, assisted by named officers and clergy. The jubilee sermon will be delivered by Very Rev. M. Flivon of Des Moines, followed by a bishop’s dinner and toasts at the rectory.
The body of Phillip Walker, 19, a city high school student, was found near the waterworks at 4 15 by Charles Hayek. He had been disturbed by dynamite blasting the day before. Funeral service was held at Schneiner Brothers parlors with classmates as pallbearers. interment in Oakland Cemetery. Mrs Curtis of Lee Mass endorses Chamberlains Stomach and Laver Tablets for indigestion in an adjacent note.
Last Saturday a wood hawker threw wood into Capt. Benj Owen s wood house. A stick struck his hand severing it and lacerating it. He was removing wood when another stick from outside hit the back of his hand. He is suffering greatly from the injuries.
Charles Bailey completed a year in the manual training department at Columbia University and received a special diploma along with a B.S. degree. A local notice seeks good clean rags at the courthouse, paying two cents per pound.
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