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NOTABLES COMING TO RADCLIFFE CEREMONY

Many Prominent in Educational Circles From All Parts of Country Expected to Attend Inaugural Exercises

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Among the many notables who will attend the inauguration of Miss Ada Louise Comstock as the third president of Radcliffe College, Saturday morning at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge are George Edwin MacLean, who has been connected with several state universities in the Middle West, having been chancellor of the University of Nebraska and President of the University of Iowa, and who has just returned from Europe where he was head of the American University Union in London; Mr. John H. Finley, editor of the New York Times, a man with many college and university connections; Professor Albert Feuillerat, exchange professor at Harvard this year, who will represent the University of Paris; Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, president of Mills College, California and also of the American Association of University Women; Frances Fenton Bernard, educational secretary of the American Association of University Women; President Samuel Paul Capen, who was recently installed at the University of Buffalo. The presidents or deans of all the leading college for women will be present as well as many other distinguished guests.

Program for Day Announced

The events of the day will begin at 10 o'clock when the governing boards will receive the delegates in the Church of the New Jerusalem, corner of Quincy and Kirkland Streets. At ten-thirty the academic procession will form there and proceed to Sanders Theatre where the exercises will be held at eleven. Those who take part in the program are: President Marion Edwards Park, of Bryn Mawr, a former dean of Radcliffe, President William Allan Neilson, of Smith College, which gave Miss Comstock to Radcliffe, President A. Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, and Miss Comstock.

There will be an informal luncheon in Bertram Hall, Shepard Street, at 1 o'clock for the delegates, governing boards, and guests. In the afternoon the Radcliffe hockey team will play Wheaton. From 4 until 6 o'clock the Associates and the Council of Radcliffe will give a reception to the invited guests at Agassiz House in honor of Miss Comstock.

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