Drake University - Quax Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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q'r'adz'tz'on mencement, was begun in 1907, when Mrs. Roy E. Cubbage, then Carrie Taylor, was chairman of the committee. Great strips of ivy were cut from the walls of the main building and made into a chain. The ceremony took place in the evening and as the seniors marched two by two from the east entrance of the central building about every tenth person carried a lighted torch. W'ith the ivy' chain over the outside shoulder of each, then crossed and over the outside shoulder of the next, they progressed along University avenue to the west campus, where they made a complete circle. President Bell cut the chain as he spoke of its signihcance. Mrs. Cubbage still possesses the shears, which cut this first chain. Now, the ceremony is held in the morning and combined with the farewell to the buildings. Members who have had a great deal of work in each of the buildings are chosen to say a few words of farewell. Another custom of the campus that seems to have sprung from Indian lore is the smoking of the peace pipe, which was started by the class of 1903. It was the idea of Dr. Luther S. Ross, the class father, and it signified the final peace between the junior and senior classes. The original stem is lost but the tradition still continues. Une of the earliest of Drake's traditions is represented by Chan- cellor's Elm, named for George T. Carpenter, the first chancellor of the university. It was this tree, which he climbed one Sunday after- noon in the spring of 1881 and looking across the river to the south- east, saw the capitol building and determined that here in this spot of uncleared wilderness should be a great educational institution. In 1881 Drake University was opened in a frame building, ap- proximately where Howard Hall now stands and facing Twenty- hfth street. The elm still stands, a me- morial to the inspiration of Chancellor Carpenter. Cn a large rock at its base are the words: CHANCELLCR ELM in memory of . GEORGE T. CARPENTER 1881-1893 -Helen Keithley. Nine

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