Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — TWENTY-SEVEN ARE GRADUATED AT ST. JOE [ARTICLE]

TWENTY-SEVEN ARE GRADUATED AT ST. JOE

About Two Hundred Visitors Came From Other Cities to Attend the Closing of College. The eighteenth, annual commencement at St. Joseph’s college has taken place and twenty-seven young men have completed the course of study there and have gone out into the world to enter upon various occupations or to enter universities for the purpose of continuing their pursuit of learning. •■■■

Tuesday night the Columbia Literary Society presented in a very creditable manner a tour-act drama entitled ‘The Dead Witness.” The large auditorium was crowded with students, faculty, visitors from a distance and citizens of Rensselaer, and the play was thoroughly enjoyed and the actors applauded generously. Today the students are leaving tor their homes and the depot has presented a busy scene all day, the platform being crowded with students and visitors. About two hundred persons from other cities were here to attend the commencement, many of them from a considerable distance away.