Seattle University - Aegis Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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 n The First Graduation Since 1918 VKR since the reopening of the College course at Seattle College in the year 1922. the number of its members has been steadily growing. With the graduation of the subsequent high school classes and with a substantial influx of newcomers the College department of Seattle College has become a much larger body than when it was discontinued in 1918 on account of war. [ When the Jesuit Fathers determined to again lay open a course of higher studies there was an opening class of sixteen, thirteen freshmen and three sophomores. In the first year the freshman class gained one new member and in the next year a large graduating class from the high school materially aided the department. At the present time we find nearly double the number of the preceding year with a proportionate rise in spirit and activity. Through these three years the trio of students, which entered the course as sophomores, has remained intact and now in 1925 form the graduating class, the first since that memorable year of 1918 when the world conflict was the cause of the disbanding of the course. For seven long years the somber but significant cap and gown has failed to grace the distinguished members of a graduating class of Seattle College. Hut now we have started anew and from this year onward we hope and expect to have larger and larger classes graduating from our course. The graduation exercises will be held on the evening of June 10. George R. Stunt .. Henry T. I vers and Howard LeClair will be presented with diplomas certifying their satisfactory completion of the course of Liberal Arts at Seattle College. And then for the first time since the World War Seattle College will live up to its name of a college. No one now attending school was in Seattle College at a previous graduation, save those of this present graduating class, and it shall be the link which binds the old to the new and which shall reopen the interrupted series of degrees given by our Alma Mater. Page Nineteen

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