GRADUATION ISSUE
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University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1984
University Archives
Anticipation abounded as the class of 1955 met in the Kansas Union on the eve of the 1955 graduation ceremonies.
Down the hill KU traditions have evolved in history of commencement
By BONITA HENRY Staff Reporter
Parents of the members of the graduating class of 1984 will not be entertained in the same fashion as those of 1873.
In 1873, pranksters lowered a skeleton, jigging its bones to the musical selections of the Fifth United States infantry Band, through a hole in the unfinished roof of what was then the house, so much to the surprise of the audiences.
This story, told by Clifford S. Griffin in his book, "The University of Kansas A History," is just one story among many that underlies the evolution of KU complements.
THE CEREMONY IS much the same as the original, but the events pre-
ceeding graduation have taken many turns, some planned and some not.
One event, a tradition that has since fallen deep into the University archives, is the smoking of the peace pipe.
The strange thing about the peace pipe was that it was done every year, but nobody knew why it was done. Then in 1946, a brave student journalist undertook the search for the origin of the smoking of the peace pipe, which by that time was always done at the senior breakfast.
The reporter questioned several faculty members about the tradition, including Frank E. Melvin, former KU professor, who had written a history of KU, and L. N. Flint, another former KU professor, who still had the 2
See HISTORY, p. 3, col. 1
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