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mind attended the Sigma Xi lecture Monday evening. Tuesday afternoon,
trustees, faculty, students and alumni marched to the Park
Avenue-Institute Road corner for the ceremony of inaugurating Alumni
Field. Edward F. Miner presented the entrance and land for the Class
of '87, Harry Worcester Smith the gates, and George 1. Rockwood turned
over the keys to the field, paying high tribute to the work of
Professor Butterfield. Mr. Washburn felicitously accepted all the
gifts for the Institute. An unexpected feature of the afternoon was a
speech by Dr. Conant, congratulating Professor Coombs on the occasion
of his fiftieth birthday and presenting to him a gold watch on behalf
of his colleagues. A gift of fifty roses from the Class of 1915
completed the tribute to this ever-popular teacher.
Tuesday evening a reception at the Bancroft Hotel, with President and
Mrs. Hollis, Mr. and Mrs. Washburn, in the receiving line, attracted
friends of the Institute to the estimated number of 1,200. The
following morning another host of people, dignitaries from some eighty
universities and other institutions, faculty and trustees, in a
dazzling array of academic costume, met at the Bancroft and marched to
Mechanics Hall for the commemoration exercises. Before a crowd that
overflowed the old hall, Dr. Hollis delivered the commemoration
address, followed by addresses by President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard, Governor David 1. Walsh of Massachusetts, Dr. John
A. Brashear, president of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. The surprise speaker of the morning, called from the ranks
of delegates, was Booker T. Washington. A buffet luncheon at Boynton
Hall followed these ceremonies. In the afternoon there was a special
meeting of the A. S. M. E., and the Class of 1915, almost completely
overshadowed by the main jubilee program, held its class day exercises
under the trees on the Hill.
A great banquet, Wednesday evening, was the next occasion for high
compliments and ringing speeches. James Logan presided, introducing as
toastmaster Francis W. Treadway, '90, former lieutenant governor of
Ohio, who
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