GRADUATION ISSUE
University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1984
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In the early 1900s, alumni also walked down the hill.
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foot-long pipe that his class had smoked and two faculty women, who were known as tradition experts. But no one had the answer.
THE FACULTY MEMBER who had the most to say about the pipe was Henry Werner, who was then dean of student affairs. Werner said, "All I know is that it means all campus cliques are dissolved at the smoking of the pipe, and all students are as one, all alumni of KU."
According to an article in a 1906 issue of the Kansan, the graduating class of 1891 started the practice. The class marched to the main building and on to Snow Hall, where the frolicking continued. An oration was given about the
class vine, an ivy was planted by the wall and each of the classmates threw a bloom.
Then came the tradition which few understood. The members of the class and the faculty formed a circle and lighted a long-stemmed clay pipe filled with tobacco. The pipe was passed around, and all took a puff or two. Present was Chancellor Francis H. Snow, who held the pipe in one corner of his mouth and blew a stream of smoke from the other.
IN THE 19808 Commencement is only one day of receipts, brunches and ceremony, but during the early years of
See HISTORY, p. 4, col. 3
The antics of those who have waited for that one day are plentiful. So are the smiles, evident by this graduate during the 1980 ceremonies.
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