The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-06
Description Of the Celebration,
and Comforting of Hon.
orary Degrees.
HOW CHINESE AMBASSADOR
TOOK HIS GREAT H0NORS
Wang Tab Sieh Stood the Latin,
and Got Even in
Chinese.

:. While the college youth of the United
States is celebrating commencement. the
| youth OF Oxford university is attending
'eneenia. in robes so gorgeous. so varic.
| gnted. md Of such ancient vintage that TO
| the onlookor who is uninitiated, time has
been turned back not only years, but CEN
turies, 1t was not 1905 A. D., but 1923,
Each year at the summer term it is the
pleasure of tho university authorities, in
convocntion assembled TO SOLICIT certain emf
mont and most distinguished people from
among all the nations of the earth upon
whom, at tho ensuing ''encenis,' honorary
degrees are conferred.
Top Gallery Sacred No More
The proceedings are hold in the shel,
donian theater, wherein are assembled all
the youth and beauty of graduate and under.
graduate Oxford, their sisters. cousins and
to the UNDERGRADUATE is no Longer SO. some
years ago the remarks Of the undergraduates
70 those officiating below became so fire.
the total abolition of tho custom, and today
the galleries are oil occupied by invited
guests, whose names have been duly sub
mitted TO and passed upon by the authcri
ties; the semiclrcle TO those most dis
tinguishcd visitors Of the female sex, while
tho pit or floor Of the theater is relegated
to graduates OF the varsity, and such dis
hnguished visitors os may have been for,
tunate enough to havo obtained invitation.
Faculty in Solemn Procession,
The programme commenced at high -
to tho DOT, The chancellor, vice chanc ellor,
heads OF colleges, professors Of the highest
grade, having met in the old divinity
schools hall, proceed In solemn order, in
double file, TO the Sheldonian theater, somo
fifty yards distant, preceded by an esquire
bendle in black stuff robe and black stuff
hat. with a hard boiled brim and n soft.
boiled crown; in his right hand no bears
silver stick, with bird on top; on his left
arm he bears a silver plate, about six
inches long by four wide, upon which nre
embossed tho arrnorial bearings Of the uni.
versity- This to show, doubt that his
license has been paid. Following him como
three persons clothed in similar gowns and
hats, but bearing three silver maces, known
as pokers; then three more with gold
'f the chancellor, who, should he bo pres
ent is robed in black silk with gold in
rolls gold in punches, gold iu tails: carried
by two sweet little pages this year he was |
absent, and the yice'chancellor oficiated. He
wore only the robes OF doctor OF divinity. |
consisting Of scarlet robe, reaching from |
lis collar TO his heols, having black velvet |
sleeves as big Bs wheat sBck his head |
covered with the regulation mortar board
y college life He was followed by about
hirty moro in similar garments; some were
doctors OF divinity some leaned TO civil
avs, and wore magenta silk sleeves in place
4 the black velvet; some wore learned in
Medicine or scionce, and woro gray sleeves;
nc or two were musical, and wore gray |
acks and sleeves; but whatovor their back
r their sleeves oil wore equally solemn.