From The Indianapolis News, Friday, May 21, 1926: All Butler University classes were dismissed today so students could attend the annual May Day exercises, which were held this year at Fairview Park, the future site of Butler. Many alumni, former students, and friends thronged to the park to witness the morning athletic events and then joined in to enjoy the noon luncheon. The afternoon program saw young men and women students pulling a plow, the handles held by Hilton U. Brown, chair of the board of directors, breaking ground within lines drawn for the first proposed new campus building. The day’s activities at the park concluded with a flag raising, community sing, a pageant consisting of 350 students, and the crowning of Mary Miles Coate, the May Queen. Festivities closed with an evening dance in the Claypool Hotel’s Riley Room.