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JUNIOR-SENIOR BANQUET Maeterlinck said in L'Oiseau Bleuf' that the dead become conscious and happy when the living speak and think about them. If this is so, old Chaucer must have turned over in his grave and chuckled, for the faire ladies of the junior and senior classes of the College for XVomen quoted his lines full sweetly. It was the occasion of the junior-senior banquet on Tuesday evening, where the class of 1912 entertained the graduating class. The tables were pret- tily decorated with white pond lilies, the 1912 class flower, and the place cards bore the same design. Miss Margaret Senhauser, president of the junior class, acted as toast-mistress, while those present responded with toasts which were quotations from Chaucer. Closely following the banquet the seniors, gowned, each carrying a candle, marched in procession from Haydn Hall to the steps of Clark Hall. There they joined in singing clever and witty songs, serious songs and loyal ones. Per- sonal hits and others enlivened the evening. , THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 0 some people the idea of a unified commencement has often oc- curred. They think it quite neces- sary for the Western Reserve University to have a university commencement where men and women of all depart- ments can graduate together. But this plan is not practical because of the large number of graduates and because it would violate the spirit of the College for Wonien. Since it was founded in 1890 this department of our university has held a place apart from the rest. Owing to this independence, perhaps, it has won a name as a girls' college of the Vassar or Smith type where mere man holds no equal rights-where woman's sphere remains all her own. It is fitting therefore that the College for Women should not be humiliated by having its graduates receive diplomas to- gether with the graduates of other departments. Furthermore the ceremonies can be so truly feminine, so naturally dainty without the grandeur and pomp of the university ceremonies that, for the women, there is little more to be desired. 19
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Wednesday afternoon, just as the sun-dial in the center of the quadrangle cast a shadow across the figure two, a procession formed at Clark Hall and began to wend its way across the campus to Bellflower and thence to the Flor- ence Harkness lllemorial Chapel. The girls of the Glee Club led the way, fol- lowed by the senior girls in black gowns. Then came the faculty and the under class girls and lastly. the advisory council. At the chapel the seniors formed a lane through which the faculty and council passed. Ushered in by junior girls, each one carrying an American Beauty rose, the black robed seniors filed into seats which were ribboned off with broad white streamers. The altar and steps were adorned with banked palms and other potted plants and the whole building, aisles and corners, was crowded with friends and relatives of the graduates. The Glee Club sang the opening song Come now, and let us reason to- gether. Reverend Paul F. Sutphen offered prayer and President Marion Le Roy Burton of Smith College spoke to the graduates. Night Hymn at Sea was then sung by the Glee Club, after which Professor Aikens read the list of graduates. President Thwing then conferred forty-nine degrees of Bachelor of Arts. Thirteen were admitted to the Alpha chapter of Ohio of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. President Burton of Smith College spoke upon education and life and their relationship one to the other. The phrase Unoblesse oblige answers this pur- pose. Expressed in the ahnost paradoxical terminology of jesus, our subject is To whom much is given of him shall much be required. Stated in our own words it is that large opportunities mean large responsibilities. l-THE Gufrs or EDUCATION. llc have come to see the importance of the body. NVe recognize that it is the necessary prerequisite of all true mental or spiritual development. Une of the most important results of this broadening of the course of study is the worthy emphasis that is placed upon the training of the body. But again the school has always stood for knowledge. The minds of stu- dents have been stored with the love of the universe. They have at their disposal many of the facts of life. Their minds are open to truth. The consequence of this fact is that they possess the beginnings of originality, of spontaneity, of positive constructiveness which is absolutely essential to important mental activ- ity. In its ideals, standards, purposes, educational life is' always holding before the student the development of real character as the end and goal of life. ll.-THE FACT OF RESPONSIBILITY. XVhat do we mean by obligation? Each of us is related to self, to others, 20
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