Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1918 — Indiana University. [ARTICLE]

Indiana University.

Indiana University will celebrate its ninety-eight birthday by a great series of meetings of alumni and friends held in practically every county seat of the State on the 17th, 18th and 19th of this month, according to plans announced here today. The record of the last year, when meetings were held in more than three-fourths the counties and in thirty-three cities outside the state, will probably be surpassed. Practically all the meetings planned will be war meetings. Alumni from all over the state have written to Alumni Secretary, Ralph V. Sollitt, who has general charge of the arrangements requesting reports on the war service record of the University. The members of the faculty/, more than fifty of whom will attend the meetings as representatives of the University, will bring patriotic messages. The state-wide celebration will culminate in the exercises in Bloomington on the morning of January 21st and the state dinner at Indianapolis on the same date. The guest of honor and principal speaker at both occasions will be Dr. Henry Van Dyke,, former Minister to Holland. Dr. Van Dyke is one of the most gifted orators in the country. Appointed as Minister to Holland when Wilson became president, he resigned some time ago to return to America to devote his entire energies to the war. Other guests will include Governor Goodrich, former Governor Ralston, Meredith Nicholson, Booth Tarkington and George Ade. At both Bloomington and Indianapolis an impressive feature of the celebration will be the unfurling of an immense service flag containing more than 1200 stars representing the alumni and former students who have already entered the military service.