Colonel Arthur Woods '92, former Police Commissioner of New York City, will be the speaker this year at the Class Day Services for Seniors in Appleton Chapel on Class Day. The exercises which are open only to members of the graduating class take place at 9 o'clock, and are considered the most important of the events of Class Day. In former years the address was regularly given by Professor Herbert Palmer '64 but after 1916 he was obliged, because of his age, to give up the custom. Last year, however, Professor Palmer, because of an emergency, consented to speak at Appleton once more. Since the rule that only Seniors may attend is very strictly enforced, even to the extent of having the organist a Senior, this event is the one of the Class Day events which the Seniors can consider as for themselves alone.

Colonel Woods Life Outlined

Colonel Woods, after graduating from the University, spent several years in post graduate work both here and at the University of Berlin. He then became a master at Groton for ten years, leaving the school to become a reporter for the New York Evening Sun.

In 1907 with his appointment as Deputy Police Commissioner in New York City, began Colonel Wood's important work in connection with the Police Department of the Metropolis. When John Purray Mitchell was elected mayor on a reform ticket in 1914 one of his first and most important appointments was that of Colonel Woods as Police Commissioner. During the three years that followed, the latter reorganized the Police Department and enforced the laws of New York in a capable manner.

During the war he was on the staff of the Committee on Public Information and held the position of a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Aviation Section of the United States Army. Since then he has been connected with the Americanization work of the American Legion and with Secretary Hoover of the Department of Commerce.