Case Western Reserve University - Lux / Differential Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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Clllummencement week 3

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Trustees CHARLES F. THWING, D. D., LL. D., President, Cleveland EDWIN R. PERKINS, A. B., LL. D., Vice-President, Cleveland HIRAIXI C. HAYDN, D. D., LL. D., Vz'cc'-President, Cleveland LIBERTY E. HOLDEN, A. M., Cleveland SAMUEL MATHER, A. M., LL. D., Cleveland J. HOMER WADE, A. M., Cleveland WILLIAM H. BALDWIN, A. B., Washington,D.C. WASHINGTON S. TYLER, Cleveland JOHN H. MCBRIDE, Cleveland CHARLES M. RUSSELL, A. B., Massillon CHARLES L. PACK, Lakewood, N. J. MOSES G. WATTERSON, A. M., Cleveland ALFRED A. POPE, A. M., Farmington, Conn. LOUIS H. SEVERANCE, New York City HENRY R. HATCH, Cleveland WORCESTER R. WARNER, D. Se., Cleveland WILLIAM G. MATHER, A. B., Cleveland ANDREW SQUIRE, LL. D., Cleveland DAVID Z. NORTON, A. M., LL. D., Cleveland CHARLES W. BINGHAM, A. B., Cleveland CHARLES F. BRUSH, Ph. D., LL. D., Cleveland HORACE E. ANDREWS, A. B., Cleveland GEORGE A. GARRETSON, U. S. M. A., Cleveland WILLIAM E. CUSHING, A. B., LL. B., Cleveland JAMES D. WILLIAMSON, A. M., D. D., Cleveland MYRON T. HERRICK, LL. D., Cleveland HOMER H. JOHNSON, A. M., LL. B., Cleveland JOSEPH PERKINS CHAMBERLAIN, Middlebury, Conn. AMBROSE SWASEY, Cleveland LYMAN H. TREADWAY, Cleveland JOHN DICKERMAN,, A. B., Secy and Treas., Cleveland WILLIAM A. LEONARD, D. D., Cleveland HOWARD P. EELS, A. B., Milwaukee, Wis. 8

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Commencement Week S the sunny days and the cool, delightful nights of early june crown the world we know as Nature, so the social hours of commencement week, gay and serious in turn, crown our college life. After years of work, not unmingled with pleasure, one week consummates the preparation which will fit us for an entrance into that mysterious something we call life. Doubtless, when a student has lived so long under the lighted torch of knowledge, he often feels a sort of awe in venturing beyond-out into the dark and unknown expanse. The future may seem to hold forth no allurements, for in the years that his mind has been developing by education, he has nibbled, as it were, only the tender shoots found growing on the tree of life. In climbing higher he may be afraid to trust himself to the bitter portions that might possibly fall to his lot or he may even be without ambition to press on. This, however, is not the rule, it is the exception, for the college man or woman of today is usually eager to conquer new worlds. For them commencement means the putting aside of youthful things and the entering into the estate of manhood or womanhood as working, thinking, social units. In the single week that binds the students of the different departments of Vlfestern Reserve University together before they begin the new, strange life, there is crowded so much of the spirit of a great, united university that it lingers through the years. Like the faint memory of love's first rosy day or like the thrill which some opera brought into the soul of a musician-like these, but sweeter, will some day be the vision of your commencement week. THE PRINCESS IDA By a happy combining of the Glee Clubs of the College for Women and of Adelbert College, Gilbert and Sullivan's opera, The Princess Ida, was ren- dered to a very warm but enthusiastic audience at the Colonial Club. This comic opera, built around Tennyson's pretty poem, The Princess, was well suited to a cast composed of college men and women. The lively, pretty music and the oft recurring gaiety in rhyme and jest left no tinge of sadness with those who were so fortunate as to witness the per- formance. Had any of the several authors of The Princess Ida been present, it is quite certain that they, too, would have enjoyed the evening and would have joined in the well-deserved applause of the singers. 10