The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-06
Conferring Honorary Degrees,

and order within the University. They wore
black silk gowns with ermine hoods hung
over their shoulders and undcr their chin q
With the last OF tho scarlet crowd safely in
side the doors the learned doctors filed to
| their respective seats in the semi circle, the
vicc occupying the throne, the rest, re
gardless of age and comfort occupying
benches nine inches wide, with neither cush,
ion to mitigate the hardness OF the ancient
Vice Chancellor, lifting his mortar board, as
also the proctors, whose chief duty seemed
TO be to sncezo every time the vice snuffcd
proceeded TO make q brief Grafton in Latin,
In which he congratulated all present upon
the glories OF tho occasion Ho then OF
fered 10 the vote OF the graduates tho names
in Latin, of those eminent persons who had
been chosen in convocation to bo submitted
again to them in open session for the hon
orary degrees OF the day. AS each namo was
offered he closed with 'Plucentem vobis
pomini doctores; plnconlcm vobis Domini
Magistr,' 10 which the domini and Mag
istri assembled meekly answered, "Placet =
Tho unanimity Of the vote assembled some
what tho sustaining by tho Mormon con-
icronce OF the prophets. seers and revc.
lators when the mouthpiecc OF God an
nounces tho name OF apostle to 70.
place one who has fallen asleep in the bosom
OF Abraham or who has been kicked out Of
discovered With this difference tho
names selected have been posted in the
convocation hall for Il month or more that
al may know and those opposed may havo
ooth IN convocation and in general assembly.
List Of the Notables.
Whom all the names have been voted upon.
another procession Is formed with the esquire
bcadle in front md the set pokers in single
ME following. This time the march is some.
thing Iastor, thoy arc in hot pursuit. disap-
poaring through tho main doors 1t is but
a low moments when they csme again with
their willing victims. This TING they had
his ha,s1os excellence Wang Tah Ssh, Chinese EN-
Milnor, Hon. r. B. Holdanc, Secretary OF
War Sir Horace Plunkotl and Sir John
Madden. Chancellor Of Melbourne university.
Wang Was Got Up to Kill.
The commanding officer of the rear column
was DR. Goudy, doctor Of civil law, whose
duty 1t was TO officially Introduce, in Latin,
accompanied by littIo luudatory bunch OF
eneomiums, each of tho victims in his charge.
The hrst man up WINS Mr., Wong Tnh Ssh.
wang was got up to kill, in pearl gray pa
over which he woro the usual padded silk
overcoat. His Ghost was just covered with
spoils taken from some royal junk. He Ind
stars OF this and straps OF that. His hat
was OF tho regulation royal black, with brim
turned up, but on tho crown was half of
a pink coral reef. while in tho center n
chunk Of yollow Jade with a peacock fea.
thor pulled through It,
Chink Balks at Latin.
As he came TO the front he never cracked
.t.sip ahu ~. opuuy proceeded TO OUer the
indictment. 'Imperrime,' said ho, ''In hoe
thento ut memineritis, accepimimus yiros
quosdam gcnto ssrica illustrissm5s in doc.
forum nostrorum pumerum relatos'' 1t was
evident that the Chink didn't quito like II
but ho WINS game. though there was danger
GUS CLINT in his eye, something like tho silent
gaze OF the laundry nrtist confronted with
a demand for sundry washing by a Chinatown
policeman; Hodie,' continued DR. Goudv
,rero. mihi felciter contingit surnmus vobis
gratissimum viTum excadem, stripe oriundum !
prasentandi. Hio olim in patria sun vaidn |
spectAtus, Hore the Chinec wanted 10
make run mt the vice chancellor who stood |
as did tho prootors, mortar boards i'm hand |
looking like triad OF catydids Tho main |
guy with the big silver poker. however. hold |
on 10 his shirt tail and tho Chink staved |
whore he was. 'Nunc ad rcgom nogtrum |
ae impcratore soricam Icgationis cansn
mishus est; quem al houoro adieoeritis. frn
,cfhum odfectum erga imperii oricutis ipco.
las, horentissim declarabitis Dr. Goudv
went short OF breath hore, and tho Chinaman
made suspicious move towards his sleeve
out tho man with the silver poker hold him
quiet Hanc. igitur prnesento virum excoI-
lentissimum Wang Tab Sieh nd amittotur ad