The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-07
THEY ARE FREE.
Sixty Eight Students Graduate
From Washburn.
Diplomas Are Awarded Today in
KcVicar Hall.
GIRLS GET H0NoRs.
Capture All But One Place on
the Roll.
DIR. Henry F. Cope Delivers the
Address.

AAOA O6SO
The years grist of Washburn gradu-
ates were given their diplomas and
turned out into the cold world from
McVicar chapel this noon. There were
GO of them and one by one they ac-
copied their token of toll and pleas
ure. appreciated only by the collegian
! and turned their backs on college days.
Year after year crowd of the jolly
students meets the sadness of COM
mencement time. Few think they will
survive the grief of parting, None
leave with joy. There are none but has
his secret sob and in the coed crowd
they weep in unison.
But every commencement time finds
big jolly crowd back on the campus.
They come from everywhere and from
every class-and they are not weeping
So graduation is a period of acute
sentimentality soon to be forgotten in
the battle of life promised by the ora
tor of the day. And those returning
bring stories of conquest on the mum
dane sphere which are an inspiration.
Such is diploma day and the one to-
day is not unlike those that have gone
before. Perhaps, due to the rain or
last night, the beautiful Washburn
campus was more beautiful than ever
and perhaps for the same reason the
fine old ivy clinging to the classic halls
was more wonderful, traditional and
memorable. The class day for the
graduates has passed and they have
their bit of ivy planted. Some day
when they return it will have spread
entirely over the wall of a building and
they will view it with love and admir-
alton and reflect on the growth they
themselves have made. This class has
for it's special memory the mounting
of the famous old bell which rang foot
ball victories as its gift to its alma
mater. Older graduates will appreci-
ate it more for few Of the present class
knew its former music.
No one who has seen commence
ment could detect anything new in the
procession today. New faces appeared
in the long line of marching caps and
gowns and a few appeared in the fac
ulty procession. The chapel was
crowded as usual, and likely the gown
ed procession, as 1t filed in, Kept step
to the same music.
But the boys and girls, scarcely men
and women, who took places in the
front rows of chapel seats, and in
whose behalf it all was done, were new,
The coed ranks were somewhat thin
ner than in other years-they formed
only third of the class. This was due
partly to the lamentable fact that none
finished her course in the fine arts
department this year and this school
had no graduate It was the first.time
in years that there was no pink tassel
in graduates procession.
Those Who Graduated.
The graduates and their degrees
were:
Bible school certificate-Percy Lee
Perry.
Bachelor of Laws-Arthur Clair
Banta, William Harry Comstock. Hal
Gerald FIotchkiss, Walter Allen Jones,
Radcliffe Moore Lee, Alonzo Charles
McCarty, Douglas David Mote, Clyde
T. Parker. Donald Frank Stanley.
Doctor of Medicine-Amy Belot, Will
liam Henry Greider, John Thomas Nc
Campbell, Marmaduke D. McComas,
BENJAMIN Harrison Mayer, Glenn sax
ton Millice, Otis Richard Preston,
Clyde E. Shaffer, Victor Sheldon Smith,
Charles Bertram Wycoff.
Bachelor of Science-Edward Alexan-
der Ingham.
Bachelor of Arts-Helen Adams,
Laura Armstrong, Richard Ross Ben
nett, Benjamin Franklin Bowman,
Grace Brewer, Carl Riley Brown, Alma
Calvert, Herbert Edgar Chandler,
Lynne Codding, John Parks Coe, Ger
trude Estelle Cornick, Chester oliver
Dawson, Roscoe Dawson, Lester Fred
erick Ellison, William Roy George,
Mary Elizabeth Gleed, Ruth Jane
Grandon, Ethel Bradbury Grant,
Lurene Angelyn Irish, Wesley Herbert
Jamison, Anthony Edmund karnes'
Erwin Keller, Ina Marguerite Kendall,
Ida Marie Kendall, Ethel Frances
Kingsley, Hiram Webster Kingsley.
Thomas Frank Laidig, Jessie Grace
Lee, Cornelius Olos Lowe. Marian NC
Cav, Nina Mildred McLatchey, Ed
Mosley, John Tennyson Myers, Grace
Gladys Naylor, Ruth Naylor' Donalo
Mohler Neiswanger, Huston Harry
| Porter, Clarence Hanes Ream, Bruce
David Realm, Florence Margaret ROD
erson, Earl Leon Shoup. EDNA JESSIE
/ VNf1hPrfOrHn warner,
Mary Jeanette Watts, Margaret 'WeA-
come, Florence Ruth White.
| The degree of master OF arts was
| conferred upon Elizabeth Grlggs DAD
| lsman. Nv,
| President Sanders for the year m
| Guided special honors to: Nina MIL
1 dred McLatchey, French ana ger
man; Ruth Naylor, English ana LAT
in: Robert Wilberforce Warner,
mathematics; Mary Jeanette Watts
French and English; Margaret We'll
| come. French and English. Honors 70
| Iurene Angelyn Irish, Grace Gladys
| Naylor, and high honors to Anna Gai-
| vert Herbert Chandler, Ruth Jane
brandon, Ethel Bradbury Grant, Ida
| Marie Kendall Nina Mildred NC
| Iatchey, Ruth Naylor, Margaret Well
come, Florence Ruth White.
DIR. Cope Guest of Honor.
| The guest of honor OF the coHege
1 WAS t SOPSS
| commencement address and is one
who has for many years been inter
ested in educational work. He was
| born in London and received the
| greater part of his elementary educa-
| fion there. He came to the United
States in 1891 and commenced the
study of theology in the Southern
J Pc ptist Theological seminary OF LOUIS
Vile, KY He received his A. B. de-
gree from Ripon college in 1908. He
was ordained a Baptist minister in
1898, remaining in the ministry for
some ten years. Mr.. Cope became
engaged in teaching and special liter
airy work at Chicago in 1903, in 1905
he was made assistant secretary and