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

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THE ADELBERT SENIOR PILGRIMAGE It was an old Indian custom found among the tribes of Ohio to visit yearly the bones of their ancestors. This custom grew up out of reverence for the departed ones. So the Adelbert senior pilgrimage to Hudson, the Sunday be- fore commencement, resembles that of the Indians, in that it, too, shows rever- ence for the past. The old college still stands, its buildings almost hidden among the trees of the campus, its windows shattered and its walks overgrown with nettles. But for all its gloominess and desolation it is still dear to the man of Reserve, for there the institution had its birth and grew and withered and grew again, until at last, transplanted, it sprung into a full and beautiful flower-our VVestern Reserve University. THE BACCALAUREATE SERVICES The Baccalaureate services of the College for XVomen and of Adelbert Col- lege were the first services to be held in the new Amasa Stone Memorial Chapel. Aside from the impressiveness of the sermon and the music, there was the grandeur and beauty of the chapel itself. The class of l9ll had the privilege and honor of holding the first Baccalaureate services ever held within the doors of the future house of college worship. President Thwing, as friend and minister, preached a sermon that rang with words of cheer and advice. Everyone who heard it could not but feel the depth and breadth of its meaning. The text, taken from Revelation, was applied with a careful thinker's skill to our college life and to the days that fol- low. And the city lieth foursquare, on the east, three gates, on the north, three gates, on the south, three gates and on the west, three gates. The city is man. If a man is foursquare he has thoughts of four kinds, for himself, for his work, for man and for God. His thoughts for himself contain the gateways of in- tellect, heart and will. If he has thoughts for his work the gateways are re- spect for it, aptness for doing it and education through it. VVhen he con- siders his relation to mankind he thinks of honor, love and co-operation. The highest thoughts a man can have are those which consider his God. Here are found the gateways of mystery, obedience to God and worship of Him. It is not strange, therefore, that with such words of sound advice and deep signifi- cance ever ringing in their ears the senior class of 1911 could go forth into life, encouraged by their optimism and strengthened by their spirituality. ll

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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

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THE HUDSON RELAY VVhen the Hudson to Cleveland relay first made its appearance at Reserve in 1910, there was a great deal of skepticism as to the ultimate result. Its aim was merely to join the present to the past, the old college at Hudson to the new university in Cleveland. Some thought it would die a natural death but a few had the courage of their convictions and ability enough to carry them out. The gigantic task of preparing for the event did not deter them, and so it happened that one hlune day the first relay race between the two homes of Reserve was run. After the class of 1912 had won it, the spirit and intense enthusiasm aroused over it spelled success, The juniors, although they lost the race, and especially Monroe Curtis, who conceived the idea, felt well repaid for the effort they had put into this innovation. The relay proved a ht event for commencement week and was also a drawing card for the public. The roads were lined with curious crowds and the name of Reserve was on every tongue. Now the Hudson relay is an annual event in which each of the four classes of Adelbert have twenty-four runners-one man to a mile. The 1911 captains who were chosen by their classes, were Alexander, Hub- bell, Boyle and Manzelman. The class presidents, Forbes, F. Knight, Gentsch and Harrison, hnished the race which the captain started. All along the road runners in track suits were stationed, ready to carry the past into the present. Followed by clouds of dust were the automobiles that would later pick up the tired athletes and carry them to Cleveland. 12