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Arizona Republic from Phoenix, Arizona • Page 16

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Arizona Republici
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Phoenix, Arizona
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THE -ARIZONA REPUBI2CAN, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1920 PAGE SIXTEEN GEN. PERSHING DEDICATES ta FOUNTAIN AT UNIVERSARY OF ARIZONA They Tell the StoJ Look for YellowTags Attached to Sale Garments! Better Than Words (M ff and more on many-late .1 Fall SUITS, COATS and DRESSES fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the fraternity Friday night with a banquet at the country club. Plates were set for S3 members and alnmni. The tables were beautifully decorated with bowls of black and gold pansies, the fraternity flower. Miss Estelle Lutrell, librarian at the university, has received word from the war service board of the American Library association that the surplus war service books, a collection of approximately 200,000 volumes will be sent to the libraries in each state for distribution to hospitals, sanitarium and other institutions for the benefit of ex-service men.

The quota of books alloted to Arizona cosists of about 90 volumes, which are now on the way. Miss Lutrell has been officially designated to handle the books for Arizona. All requests for them should be sent to her. An Inter-Campus. Baseball league is being formed.

It will serve to start the varsity in training for the spring program. There will be games between the fraternitnes, dormitories and other organizations. The Kappa Sigmas and Arizona Hall are the favorites now. The fact that 85 new students have entered for the second semester has made it necessary to repeat the freshman courses in, English, Spanish and mathematics. Is the Result of an Unexpected Opportunity! Coach McKale of the athletic department is trying to get a game with the Chicago Cubs again this year.

Early next month the team will go to California for its spring training, returning in the first week of April. There will be a game in Phoenix April 6 with the American Legion an the "Wildcat coach hopes to have the big leaguers come to Tucson for a tussle with Arizona's nine. When the Cubs came last year, they beat the University boys by a score of 7 to 3. This year they have 15 of the same men, their old team with the exception of Mann and Pick. UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, TUCSON, Peb, 7.

'Thank you again and again. I enjoyed this hour and wish it could have been twenty-four insteod of one." This was the parting greeting of General John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American forces in France, from his observation car after his visit to the university where he dedicated the memorial fountain and received the degree of Doctor of laws. Thousands gathered at the Southern Pacific station long before 8 o'clock. Prolonged cheering greeted the general as he" descended from his private car promptly at 8.

Dr. von KleinSmid, president of the university; Dean Butler, president of the chamber of commerce, and Major J. J. Boniface, in charge of military tactics and training at the university, constituted a committee of welcome for the general. The line of march led out North Sixth avenue to University avenue and through the west entrance of the campus.

The procession "stopped in front of Arizona hail where the general and his staff reviewed the cadets of the reserve officers' training corps. Troop A of the squadron took their jposts around the fountain after the review and acted as a guard of honor. platform had been erected directly facing, the fountain on the steps of the pnain building. Directly in front of the iplatform the school children were seated and the space round the fountain was crowded with people. Representatives of the American legion, jRed Cross, Spanish war, boy scouts, jstudents and faculty of the university, the federal board men, as well as thousands of people of Tucson.

Bishop Granjon opened the exercises Jwith a prayer. After an address of and an explanation of the meaning of the fountain by Dr. von KleinSmid, General- Pershing delivered -his dedication speech, i "I am giad to be present today and to participate in the ceremonies in lionor of trie men whom I had the honor to command. The free institu-ilons of the United States are safe as long as the children of the nation are i aught the meaning of democracy and have instilled in them their duty as citizens of the greatest nation on earth to preserve those institutions." He spoke of the splnedid representation the university made in the struggle for world freedom, and he j-poko with deep feeling of the men made the supreme sacrifice, in whose honor the fountain was erected. It has just been completed and is the gift of Alexander Berger, uncle of Alexander Tindolph Berger, who gave Ms life in the war.

A bronze memorial tablet with the following inscription will be placed on the monument: "This fountain is erected in honor of all faculty members, alumni and students of the University of Arizona, in patriotic devotion answered their country's call for service in the world war 1914-1918, and is dedicated with enduring affection to the twelve men who gave their lives for the freedom of humanity: Alexander Tindolph Berger, William Orville Bloys, Corland Brown Curry, Karl Thomas Hurst, Preston Jones, Lewis Edward Kengla, Leonard low, Morgan Bland HcDermott, Cornelius Molenbeck, Leslie Abram "Waterbury, Homer Donald Whipp." A benediction by Rev. "William Dixon closed the dedicatory program. Dr. A. B.

Douglass of the Steward observatory then presented General Pershing for the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. After the conferring of the degree, the spectators stood with bared heads and the cadets and returned service men at salute, while the universitv band played the -Star Spangled Banner." After the services an invitation was r-xtended to all ex-service men to com and shake hands with the general. He shook hands with several hundred men with mothers, wives and sisters as well as the exv-service men Continued winter weather compelled many, eastern stores to cancel early spring shipments which the Mfgrs. were willing to sell for less than regular prices for cash. Being on the ground, I was able to make personal selections, from these high grade stocks for immediate shipment.

The styles are "each one an only one" and froin America's foremost makers. A course which is a combination of floriculture and landscape gardening will be given by the department of horticulture in the second semester. It will treat largely with the beautifying home grounds. It is scheduled in the catalog as course 13. Fred Fickett and Hess Seaman have been selected as the team which will go against Texas early this spring to debate the question: "Resolved, That the teachers should affiliate with the American Federation of Labor." Never have we shown, even at regular prices, so many really exquisite Taffeta and Satin Dresses and Tailleur Suits of the better kind.

Our Sports' apparel of clever Skirts, shorter Coats and Jersey Suits, reflect the spirit of Fifth Ave. shops. Read These Prices and Come Monday! Tom Marlar has been awarded the $100 scholarship given annually by the Alnmni association of the university. Tom Marlar is a graduate of the Phoenix High school where he was prominent in athletics. He entered the university the next fall, taking a course in law.

During the first two years at college he was active in student, organizations and in athletics, being chosen for the All-Southwestern football team. At the close of his sophomore year he entered the service as a marine, returning again last fall; He made the football team and was again elected to the AU-Southwestem eleven. He is a member of the college house of representatives and president of the S. A. E.

fraternity. University authorities are looking forward to the biggest University week in the history of the institution from April 19 to 24 inclusive. This is the time when all the high schools of the state send representatives to the university to take part in athletic tournaments and scholastic contests. Baseball, track and field meets and tennis will be on the athletic schedule. The scholastic contests will include oratory, English, algebra, home economics, physics, chemistry, rapid Calculating, shorthand, typewriting and a number of" others.

The Arizona State Teachers' association will hold its annual convention at the university during the same week and the university encampment will be held the first three days. Major Boniface will have charge of the encampment this year and military contests will be staged by Tucson High school cadets during the week. All the schools in the state will close for the week of April 19-24. to give all teachers and contestants an opportunity to spend the week at the Such Values Will Not be Duplicated This Year. Early Selection fyleans a Full Season's Wear New Spring.Suits On Sale Late Fall Coats On Sale Registration for the spring semester shows 1,046 students enrolled with 85 new entrants, making the largest registration in the history of-the institution.

The registrar believes it will exceed the 1,100 mark before-another monh. With the final examination week over, the work began Wednesdav morning and will be uninterrupted till June except for the annual encampment of the military unit which comes University week, AdHI 19-24 Kappa Alpha Theta celebrated the As low as $25.00 As low $10.00 as New Spring Dresses On Sale As I $16.95 ow as Late Fall Dresses On Sale As low as $15.00 Late Fall Skirts On Sale As low as $7.96 few Spring Coats On Sale As 1 $19.95 ow as Get This Free Bulletin Which Answers Questions Abeut the Flu 1. Je it contagions? 2. Ia it a new disease? '3. What should one do when attacked by it? 4.

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