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

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After this game of real baseball the famous 36 champions took the field agaihst the varsity. A three inning burlesque resulted, in which the famous ,96 team came out the victor by a score of 7 to 2. The Shanty Ceremonies followed the second game. Dean Henry G. Gate, ,96, Presi- dent of the Shanties. presided. President Judson spoke on the significance of the Shanty, saying that it stood for simplicity and for good-feliowship. A picnic ended the alumni part of the program, and the crowd was turned loose to visit and later, to attend the undergraduate circus. With alumni, undergraduates, and visitors, the Circus was almost overwhelmed by a crowd estimated at more than 6,000. Many honest-to-goodness circus stunts were pulled 01f and the circus made a big hit with everyone. By ten-thirty everything had been sold out, and the evening ended with an impressive fireworks display on Stagg Field. The 1921 Reunion was most successful in all respects. Dr. Thomas W. Goodspeed and the Rev. James Goodman represented all the c1355 of 1862. The 96 baseball Reunion, the class umbrellas and costumes, the Shanties, and the Street Dance, were features new to the previous reunions. Besides the establishment of these four precedents, this reunion was held out of doors, something never done before. In short, the 1921 reunion was a huge success in every way, and a forerunner for spiendid reunions to be held in the same manner. 25

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The June Reunion tme the University of Chicago Magazinei HE 1921 Reunion was in many respects the best reunion ever attended by the Chicago Alumni. It had all the elements of color, variety, and informal, happy good-fellow- ship of previous reunions. Indeed, it was characterized throughout by a manifest out-of-doors, get-together, happy-to-be-home-again spirit. Three thousand alumni came back to witness the various attractions. On Thursday night, June 10, the best i'C dinner ever held took place in Hutchinson Cafe. President Judson and Mr. Stagg addressed the large crowd, while the presence of the 96 baseball team lent color to .the event. The Sing was held Friday night, over one thousand five hundred taking part before a great throng of spectators. Hutchinson Court was most beautifully lighted. Among the itch trophies awarded, came the special blankets presented to the C men of earlier days. The Sing closed with the singing of Wave the'Flag and the Alma Mater. From the Sing the crowd repaired to the Street Dance held on University Avenue be- tween 57th and 58th Streets. This was a new feature and one that pleased the hundreds of dancers and spectators. The new class umbrellas lined the street as gathering places. Much merriment was enjoyed in this informal mode of dancing. Alumni Day, Saturday, June 11, was started auspiciously with the Alumni Breakfast in Ida Noyes Hall, at which over two hundred alumni enjoyed an interesting program. At one-thirtyr the Midway was the scene of the formation of the parade; the classes appeared in the costumes they had adopted, and each class carried its unmbrella. From the Midway the paraders proceeded to Stagg Field where they watched the Chicago-Waseda Game which the former won 7-5. 24

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Orator: Subject: C haplain .- Degrees .- Orator: Subject.- Chapfain: Degrees .- The One Hundred Nineteenth Convocation LEON MANDEL ASSEMBLY HALL March 15, 1921 James Parker Hall. Professor of Law and Dean of the Law School, University of Chicago. waree Speech in War Time. The Reverend Theodore Gerald Soares., Ph.D., D.D., Professor of Homiletics and Religious Education and Head of the Department of Practical Theology. There were one hundred and twenty thres candidates for the degrees and titles. Of these three were for the Certificate of the College of Education; one for Bachelor of Arts; fifty-one for Bachelor of Philosophy; thirty-seven for Bachelor of Science; five for Bachelor of Philosophy in Education; one for Bachelor of Science in Education; two for Master of Arts in Divinity; three for Bachelor of Divinity; two for Bachelor of Laws; one for Doctor of Law; nine for Master of Arts; two for Master of Science; six for Doctor of Philosophy. The One Hundred Twentieth Convocation HUTCHINSON COURT June 14, 192i The Honorable Frank Orren Lowden. Former Governor of Illinois. Whe Problem of Taxation in :1 Democracy? The Reverend Theodore Gerald Snares, Ph. D., D. 0., Professor of Humiletics and Religious Education. There were Hve hundred and forty-eight candidates for degrees and titles. Of these nine were for the Certificate of the College of Education; four for Bachelor of Arts; two hundred thirty-one fur Bachelor of Philosophy; one hundred three for Bachelor of Science; forty-five for Bachelor of Philoeophy in Education; one for Bachelor of Science in Education; fifteen for MastEr of Arts in Divinity; one for Bachelor of Divinity; twenty-seven for Doctor of PhiIosophy; eleven for Bachelor of Laws; forty-une for Doctor of Law; thirty for Master of Arts; thirty for Master of Sciences. 25 F .nl-i