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rl V !• : E] 19 13 - l 14 v 1 ) the campus. Each class had a booth on the campus and the grounds were brilliantly illummated with hundreds of incandescent lights. The feature of the farewell was a freak parade in which the campus celebrities were dragged before the public eye. Members of the class of 1913 hope to see the Senior Farewell made a permanent feature of each college year. Commencement week opened on Baccalaureate Sunday, June i 5. The Reverend Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of the Methodist Episcopal church, delivered the baccalaureate sermon, one of the most scholarly ad- dresses ever heard in Meany hall. Monday morning the seniors gamboled on the green and grew reminiscent for a few hours. That night President and Mrs. Kane held their annual reception to seniors, members of the faculty and alumni. By way of innovation, the class of 1913 provided for a reception to friends and relatives of the graduates, during Commencement week. This was held Tuesday morning in the Women ' s building. The rest of the day was taken up with the annual baseball game between the alumni and the faculty, the alumni dinner and the alumni dance. Graduation e.xercises were held in Meany hall Wednesday morning, June 1 8. The Right Reverend Frederic William Keator, Bishop of Olympia, Episcopal church, delivered the Commencement address. De- grees were conferred, diplomas were awarded, appointments of fellows were announced, and the member of the class of 1913 had completed his college education. J i )■ I I! n
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rii V K : £.: 9 3 1 5 ' 1 4 v (Enmntntrrmntt ' Andrew Jackson had greater respect for precedents than did the class of 1913. In the fall of 1909, the University year began nearly a month late because of the Alaska- ukon-Pacific exposition which was held on the campus. When the college doors were opened eight hundred freshmen swarmed on the campus and were greeted with the announcement that all first-year men would be compelled to take two years of military training. Then this class began breaking precedents by losing the lie-up and tasting defeat in the flag-rush. During the second year this same class was again tied up and then was beaten in the pushball contest. When the class of 1913 reached its junior year and was ready to assume control of the Tyee, the student body voted to make the annual an A. S. U. W. publication. When the class began hitting the last lap many members lost their stride with the announcement that a system of double examinations would be tried. The class of 1913 was used for laboratory purposes and after some few had succumbed to the ordeal, the system was abandoned. Those who came through the gauntlet with colors untouched, were checked in their haste with the announcement that all seniors in the college of arts and sciences would be required to take an examination cover- ing their major studies for four years and their minor subjects for two years. The result was that the class of 1913 graduated with a number smaller than did the class of 1912. Before clinching their hold on sheep-skms, the men of the class attempted to abolish caps and gowns. Because they were outnumbered by the women in the class, they were forced to acknowledge defeat. But even then, many men in the college of arts and sciences, in addition to those in the college of engineering and the school of law, refused to wear the usual academic wrapper. But the class of 1913 could not graduate without abolishing some- thing. The result was that Class day laid its head upon the block and was given a tap that batted it out of existence. I he Senior Farewell, an all- universily open-air mixer, was substituted. A banquet for the seniors at the home of President Thomas Franklin Kane, started the festivities. At the close of the dinner, the near-graduates joined with the juniors and underclassmen in a general merry-making on )
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