Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 146, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1916 — COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT ST. JOSEPHS [ARTICLE]

COMMENCEMENT WEEK AT ST. JOSEPHS

~ Exercises to Be Held This Week For Graduates—Many Visitors Are Present. This is commencement week at St. Joe and visitors have already begurt •to arrive and the college faculty is expecting at least two hundred to be here for the exercises and have prepared for them accordingly. The college officials also extend an invitation to the people of Rensselaer to attend these exercises. There will be no charges to the public for any of the exercises except for the college plfty which takes place this Monday evening, King Henry IV. On Monday and Tuesday afternoons the college band will hold a concert and the Rensselaer will entertain with a concert tonight, starting at 6:45. • ■ t . On Tuesday morning religious services will be held starting at 9:o'> o’clock, consisting bf a solemn high mass by the Very Rev. ugust Seifen;, former president of the college. Rev. Hugh Moeller, D. D., Archbishop of Cincinnati, will also help in the exercises. In the afternoon the dedicatory exercises of the gymnasium will be held in the concert hall, after which the college band will give a concert. In the evening the alilmni banquet will be held at 6:30 andean entertainment by Scheidlet’s acrobats. Wednesday morning the graduation exercises will be held in the concetr hall at about 8 o’clock, at which the address wall be given by Mr. Gonuer, of Dubuque. The week’s occasions promise to be happy ones to those attending, and should closely resemble a large family reunion, and the college extends to the visitors a hearty welcome and will do everything in their power to make tfie week a happy one to the alumni and all other friends of the college.