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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 s rjjc'c! THE ECHO •'. fflf L. 3» Henry Thomas Ivers An able young man came to the Seattle College High School in the fail of 1 117 from the rudimentary classrooms of the Immaculate Conception School, a smiling young graduate in short pants. He was born, raised and educated here in Seattle, first seeing this staid old world through baby eyes on April loth. 1902. It was Henry '1'. Ivers During “Our Henry’s” eight years of high school and college life his many talents have budded and blossomed, until now as he is about to place his foot on the threshold of business life we behold the once untrained youth in the full bloom of capable young manhood. “Hank” has always been one of the boys but withal a vigorous character and an aptitude for hard work have destined him to soon rise above his fellows. In all of liis seven years of study at the College Henry has been an excellent student. A good head, an unerring memory and a tongue blessed with the gift of oratory, have been his principal weapons in conquering intricacies of education. He. like his two fellow graduates, spent his freshman year at Cionzaga University and then returned to Alma Mater to complete his A. B. course. I hese years of learning saw Ivers distinguish himself in many activities outside the classroom proper, lie scintillated in several College plays, starring particularly in “The Dean of Railsburv.” “It Pays to Advertise and I he Witching Hour.” He was also a member of this year’s football squad, turning out for quarter-back. Henry has had his share of class honors for as a result of his student endeavors he received the class medal in his freshman year and also a medal for the best essay on religion. In 1924 he won the Oratorical Medal from a talented field. He is an ex-editor of both the Palestra and the annual, and has been business manager of both publications. He is a past president of the College Debating Society and has always taken a foremost part in the forensic art. Page Twenty-one