Douglass College - Quair Yearbook (New Brunswick, NJ)

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With the processional completed and the invocation given, the college community awaits the addresses of President Gross and Dean Iudson. Their welcome is an encouraging one-a call to a new intensity of personal commitment, to a desire for enriching the quality of one's ideas through the education of self and the acceptance of f - ,Q-as N I g Vigs Ve challenge. gg g gg l igill gsgs 1 llgsl With this message as a guide the assembled depart and the seniors, silhouetted against an awe-inspiring background, are ready to begin their final year. 5

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l l l monday morning, september the twelfth, nineteen hundred and sixty-six 9 o'clock A day, a time, a beginning- A Convocation ushering in another year. The peacefulness of the natural setting and the regality of the academic procession reflect a sense of suspended activity before the onset of classes and events. The faculty, leading the procession in colorful academic costume, symbolizing time rendered and a degree attained, are followed by the seniors, who share with them the cap and gown of achievement. 4

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From a day in a year to a place in history, the Convocatio Douglass marks but a small part in the University's more impressive ceremony-the Bicentennial celebration. As the historic bell peals in the cupola above Old Queens delegates from the world's learned institutions march in solemn procession to pay tribute. An atmosphere of pomp and pageantry surrounds the speakers' platform as those assembled display their colorful medieval attire and symbolic gonfalons. It