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THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1937
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SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
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COMMENCEMENT SIDELIGHTS
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the blank sheet and gasped, "My gosh, I must have bunked!"
Photographers, both amateur and professional, plied their trade extensively Monday night. Several students in the graduating group carried small cameras beneath their voluminous gowns, and several were seen to step a few feet out of the procession as it oozed down the hill, take a snap up or down the long black line, and jump back into place. Later they focused for "time" exposures on the lighted platform.
Regents Chairman C. M. Harger drew the first hearty laugh of the evening with his remark that "These diplomas won't buy you anything—not even with a sales tax token."
And Chancellor Lindley scored later in a bit more serious tone when, he said to R.O.T.C. graduates, "Having trained you, we hope we'll never have to use you."
Extreme courtesy was accorded speakers, but after the routine of passing out the narrow white rolls began, several cameraddicts ventured near the platform for flash bulb shots.
Always an excellently performing group, the University band under Director Russell L. Wiley made a definitely good impression upon many old grads who heard its music Monday night for the first time. The processional, "Pomp and Circumstance Grand March," served as an introduction, and the band showed its ability in a different type of composition with Bach's choral, "Kom Susser Tod." After the benediction, the band accompanied Dean D. M. Swarthout and the entire audience in the Alma Mater song,
PROF. RAYMOND DLAHRENCE
Among recently announced additions to the University faculty in Raymond D. Lawrence, veteran newspaper man who will become assistant professor of journalism next September. Professor Lawrence will succeed Prof. Edwin W. Hullinger, acting assistant professor in 1936-37. He will teach Newspaper in Society, Reporting I and Feature Writing. He holds A.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oregon, and has had a long career as a newspaper man. At present he is news editor of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, Calif.
"Crimson and the Blue," and concluded the commencement exercises with Victor Herbert's march, "Festival Grand," as a recessional.
Many persons in the audience of several thousand began to "get the jitters" as the long line of graduates filed into the reserved center section. While the procession still stretched beyond sight toward the campus, half the reserved space seemed to be taken, and anxiety was felt that many of the honorees might be left standing.
But the many justly worried souls had forgotten something the planning committee had remembered: end sections in the stadium widen toward the top. And as a consequence the 1,127 graduates fitted into the space easily.
One might expect commencement exercises to be a physically drab and colorless affair. One can imagine only black growns and black caps. But it is not so.
A collective sigh of relief filled the evening air.
All the colors of the spectrum shone in the twilight as the procession approached. Tassels and trimming on gowns designated by their different colors the various schools of the University. First came the graduate degree candidates in complete black. Green distinguished the medics, and an attractive combination of black, white and purple announced the nurses from the University hospital at Kansas City.
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Purple, drab, light blue, olive and brown served to indicate the schools of law, business, education, pharmacy and fine arts, respectively, while graduating engineers achieved an alluring dash with their orange tassels. Last and largest of the various groups was the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with conservative white tassels.
Polite auditors looked in vain for the "wending path" to which Governor Huxman referred several times in his brief speech of greetings. The entire portion of the commencement trail visible from the stadium is distressingly straight.
A time-honored custom requires the graduate to shift his tassel from right to left upon receiving his diploma. Several young men and women seemed reluctant to comply—or perhaps they simply forgot.
More color appeared when degrees were conferred upon 11 new doctors of philosophy, each of whom was draped in red as the degree was granted.
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The height of merriment was reached when candidates for law and engineering degrees appeared on the platform. Anemic whistled
renditions of two well-known ditties paced the graduates across the scene, representatives of the two schools seizing the opportunity in turn to throw one last can of "razzberries" at their deadly rivals. They joined forces later to greet R. O. T. C. commission candidates with a faint intimation of the "Stars and Stripes Forever" march, also whistled.
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All of which was definitely not on the program.
Graduates expressed relief when the (for them) tense ceremony had ended, but their ordeal was simple compared to that of several Lawrence policemen. All nearby parking space was taken hours ahead of time, but every late comer had to convince himself of that fact before being content to leave his car several blocks away and walk to the stadium.
If you'll pardon the expression,
the t-raffle was terrific.
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Cleveland, O.—(UP)—"The only handicap in life is mental," Thos.
P. McAuliffe, "armless golf champion of the world" told members of
the Cleveland Underwriters' Association.
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