The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-29
Glass of 1907 at Kansas Uniyer.
sity Large and Notable One.
The Big Programme for the
Commencement Arranged.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS
Senator DOlliver to Make the
Annual Address.
Bishop Vincent to Preach Bac-
calaureate Sermon.

Lawrence. Kan. April Z9-Two hun
dred and forty-seven young men and
young women will receive diplomas
/ from the University of Kansas at the
thirty-ffth annual commencement
Wednesday. June 5. This is one of the
| the university, being second only to
last years class of 275, the banner year
of the university's history.
The college, as usual, furnishes by
senior class in that department NUM-
berfng 123. The law school comes next
with IS candidates for degrees and the
engineering school third with a. The
last year, the senior class this spring
numbering only 20, as compared to 63
last year This was due to the fact
THAI last years class was the first ever
to be graduated from the University of
Kansas medical school Fifteen will
be graduated from the pharmacy le-
partment and seven from the fine arts
department Four will take masters
degree in music
The class of 1907 is one of the strong
est that has been graduated from the
university 1t signalized its sophomore
year by winning the annual scrap
with the freshmen, the first time in IS
years, a second year class had ever
come off victory. Later it took the lead
in the movement to do away with the
college fights altogether. Its members
college life. Among the athletes who
are members of the class of 1907 and
will be graduated this spring are Put
nam and White of the football team,
Russell, Butler and Lapham of the
track team and Captain Brookens, Bloss
and Bailey of the baseball team
This was Putnam's first year on the
football team. but in spite of this fact
he was unanimously picked by all the
coaches of the Missouri valley as the
star guard of the season Putnam has
been at the front in track work, hold
ing the university record in the shot
put. He will go to Yale next fall.
Job" White played end on the varsity
three years and~was one of the most
reliable players Kansas has ever had
Claude Russell of the track team is the
star pole vaulter of the Missouri val
ley holding the record at the univer-
sity of eleven feet four inches Jim
my Butler holds the university record
in the broad jump and is also star
hurdler as we'll Lapham is a hurdler
and broad jumper. This is Captain
Brookens' third year on the team The
first year he pitched. but the last two
seasons he has been the catcher Bloss
has played center field on the varsity
squad two seasons "Spide' Bailey has
played shortstop for three years
In debating the class has been equal
Iy as we'll represented as on the ath-
Ietfc field Roy Douglas, the class pres
ident represented Kansas against Mis-
souri, two years, while Sullivan Loomax
debated against Oklahoma this spring
and Wilbur Lapham against Wash
burn. Hal Lebrecht, president of the
Athenaeum senate, one of the foremost
of the university organizations. is also
a member of the graduating class e
L Martin of Fort Scott, the first state
senator to ever attend the university
in its 40 years history, will receive MS
LII. B. degree this spring
In scholarship the graduating class is
fully up to the standard of past classes,
Ia having been elected to Phi Beta
Kappa and seven to Sigma XII, the two
honorary fraternities of the univer-
sity.
The commencement exercises will be
held this spring in the new gymnasium
which has just been completed the
large auditorium will seat 5000 people
80 that the former difficulty of seating
the visiting alumni and friends of the
Graduates viii be done away with.
Special efforts will be made to bring
back as many of the former students
of the university as possible to cele-
brate the opening of the new gym
nasium.
The commencement exercises begin
NAV % and "a with the annual senior
play. The nature of this is always
kept a secret until the night OF the
performance. but it is generally an or
iginal play of college Life at K u May
81 the annual commencement recital OF
the school of fine arts viii be held IN
Frazer hall Sunday, June 2, the annual
hsccaIaureate sermon will be preached
by Bishop Vincent of Indianapolis.
Monday evening, June 3, the annual Phi
Beta Kappa address will be given The
speaker is vet to be announced
Juue will be class day, when the
graduating students will bid farewell
TO the various buildings with approprf-
ate ceremony and close their last class
meeting by smoking the pipe of peace
Wednesday the annual commencement
address will be delivered by Senator
bolivar of Iowa The exercises of the
week will be closed by the annual al
unnf banquet, Immediately following
the commencement address.
Kansas PostofTice Change.