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

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A L U llif N I KTIM class 45190171 Uf 1901 611' fha Ui1,izfc1'.r1'ly of Chicago had im Late we bring to you our tribute, Gathered from a scattered host But we bear that which has lasttd Longer than a senior's boast. Longer than a moment's outburst, Longer than a wine-sprung tcast, Alma Mater, this we bring you, Wfhich has lived and grown with years, VVhich has stood through shock and buffet, Lonely wars and common tears. lt is little when we place it Side by side with freshman dreams, Pack beneath the class-day's sunshine Faded, worn and shrunken seems, But we cherish every atom And the dullest gives us gleams- Gives us gleams and random glances At the good old careless ways, Mingles laurel with the ivy Twinmg 'round our royal days. Princess-sporting in a kingdom That was seagirt from distress. Knowing' that each breaking wave would Leave our island less and less Till each one at last must launch his Craft of work and hope: f'The Guess - Princes were ive. O'er our kingdom Wfash the waves whereon we sail, But we meet at times and then we Tell again our kingclom's tale. Then, to top the clustered riggings Fly the pennants of maroon, Then across the harbor waters Floats a long familiar tune, Then the daydiglit lifts the anchors Ot the long ago too soon. Then we see upon the faces Circled 'round us what shall live and its teaching that it shall give. Of our kingdom And the stamp you our tribute, a scattered host. which has lasted senior's boast, moment's outburst. a wine-sprung toast, we bring you: That your sons shall be men free. They shall rule and shall not be ruled By the storms that sweep the sea. Late we bring to Gathered from But we bear that Longer than Longer than a Longer than O Chicago, this E1 -DONALD R. RICHBERG, 'Ol 33 Hass poem.

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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

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