University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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CA P A N D G O I-VN the Zllllllllli QDIIIICU . INCE GCTOBER, 1909, all alumni interests that are general in character and that do not come specitically under the work of the four alumni associations of the University-the College Alumni Association, the Association of Doctors of Philosophy, the Divinity Alumni Association and the Law School Associa- tion-have been administered by the alumni council, a body formed by representatives of these associations. Resolutions which were passed at the June meetings of the alumni bodies gave their officers power to delegate certain duties to this council, with the result that the alumni interest in the University of Chicago Magazine, the alumni clubs, the general alumni meetings and the alumni records was turned over to the new officers. Formerly this was in the hands of the University of Chicago Alumni Association, an organization that, 'although the largest of the four, was made up of only the baccalaureate alumni, The council was organized principally as a result of the work of Burt Brown Barker, '97, George O, Fairweather, '07, and the alumni who co-operated with them. It is composed of two delegates from each association and one from the University. The Magazine, alumni clubs and alumni meet- . ings are conducted through committees, The past year has been devoted largely to a reorganization of the alumni office, carried on by the alumni council secre- tary. The records have been corrected and revised and efforts ' to further extend their usefulness are now being made. lt is planned to place all the alumni information ina directory to be issued at Convocation- time, in June this year. The Magazine has also' been an object of considerable interest. Early it was thought best to eliminate all advertising because of the official character of the Magazine, and this resulted in its appearing in somewhat smaller form. This stage in the growth of the Magazine is only a step in its upbuilding, however, and it is hoped that succeeding years will find it with a constituency gradually enlarging, giving opportunities for its editorial expansion. Efforts have been made also to extend the knowledge of the alumni clubs, and meetings have been held in important cities with members of the faculty as the principal speakers. The clubs now number twenty-two. Members of the Council are concerned principally with binding the alumni of the University closer together in alumni clubs and bringing them in touch with the institution through the University of Chicago Magazine. This accomplished, it is hoped to make the alumni a stronger factor in the life of the University than they have been in the past. There will be a gradual tendency to make more of the alumni day in June and to get as many as -.....c...www,s.q,. - possible of the alumni back to the campus for one or two important days in the year. Clzairmmz, MVARREN P. Serretary, Iirmn the College Alumni TTARRY A. T'l'.-XNSEN, '09. From the .4.YSOCI.l1fZ.07Z of D0 SLAUGHT, '98. OFFICERS. BEHAN, '94, d'97, Ph.D. '99. HARRY A. HANSEN, Ph. B. '09. T1'ea,m1'er, RUDOLPH E. SCHREIBER, Ph. B. '04, I. D. 'OG. DELEGATES. Assofz'af1'o7z, WVARREN, P, BEHAN, '94, d'97, Ph.D. '99, and ctors of Plzilowphy, Oris W, CALDWELL, '98, and T-IERBERT E. From the Diz'z'uity Alufznii Assocz'ati01'z, HENRS' L. STETSON, '78, and. EDGAR 1. GOODSPEED, '97. From the Law 5511001 Association, JOHN R. COCHRAN, '04, and RUDOLPH E. SCHREIBER, '0G. Froufz the U1zz Ue1'sify GEORGE E. VINCENT, Ph.D. '9'S. 30

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CAP AND GOWN 'Ein Zliulllhi IDHQCHIIT OLLEGES and universities have of late revived much of the academic ceremony of mediaeval times. Faculty processions have become gorgeous spectacles. One car. appreciate the feelings of the Connecticut farmer who, having seen his friend Dr. Luther installed as President of Trinity College, with all the pomp and splendor of gowns and hoods, exclaimed enthusiastically, f'Dr,-Luther, I have been to Barnum ik Baileys circus and I have had delirium tremens twice, but I never saw anything like this before! In olden times students, too, held their festivals and indulged in mock and serious ceremonies of many kinds. Some return to these practices begins to show itself today. At the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Harvard's founding and at the Yale bicentennial, the students had a large share in the exercises and added picturesquesness and gaiety to the processions and assemblies. It is a custom in New Haven for reunion classes to adopt a fantastic or historic uniform. Puritan fahers, Continental soldiers, Indians, Scotch High- landers, Dutch peasants or French clowns march through the streets, throng upon the campus, attend the annual baseball game with Harvard and afterward disport themselves upon the field. The costumes and the processions add immensely to the jollity of the class reunions and enliven and decorate the commencement season as a whole. At Vassar, VVellesley, and Bryn Mawr, characteristic pageants, inay-pole dances, open-air plays and other festivities have become charming features of the college years. Many institutions are adopting similar plans. To one who contemplates the infrequent and meek Chicago graduates who drop in casually for the June Convocation, the question arises, can any-- . Chicago men of this city meet at Luncheon una? K . . ' , I ia,la.carteleveryTuesday I -Wlia , noon, I2 to l:30, at the New College inn, 122-124 Clark Street, between Madison and Washington Streets 'E S 52 er Alumni and former students, faculty, and undergracliiates. are welcome. , The 'Cbicago Jqlumni' Club' I JAMEV WEBER LINN. '97.,'PmMug1 GEORGE O.' FAIRWEATHER. '07. Smunry thing be done to bring large numbers, to provide some definite scheme of celebration and to arouse team play and enthusiasm? By a little effort of imagination one can see returning classes or groups of classes decked in costumes which have been ordered in advance. These gaily uniformed gradu ates gather about their headquarter tents, which are set up in a camp on the University grounds. As evening comes on a torchlight parade is organ- ized, there is a march, with bands and singingg the long procession winds its way among the buildings and finally reaches Marshall Field. Here in a space before the grandstand the Dramatic Club, the Black Friars and the Glee Club, reinforced by scores of undergraduates, present a pageant of past and pres- ent. The chief events of the year are set forth jocularly or seriously, heroes. athletic and orator- ical Cin 1950 possibly scholastic as welll, are pre- sented, songs old and new are sung, until the evening culminates in a loyal and triumphant Alma Mater. All this, organized effectively by vigorous com- mittees, could be developed year after year into an event which might well draw hundreds of gradu- ates and become a characteristic feature of the june Convocation. Until the alumni eagerly flock in for the sole purpose of hearing the Convocation address and conferring upon the educational prog- ress of the institution, a device like this might be found an effective expedient. GEORGE EDGAR VINCENT. 32