The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-06-02
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Farewell to Rice Han.

Farewell to Rice Hail.
Limericks of farewell to the various
buildings were amusing. David Nels-
wanger, who addressed q pOettcal
goodbye to the college Office. convinced
all hearers that he was able to dis
cover, more or less successfully, rhyme
where no rhyme was thought to be.
Miss Edna Gerkin bade farewell to
Rice hall, where malodorous chemical
experiments are daily performed:
There was an old building named Rice
That was teeming with beetles and
And the terrible smell
That within it does dwell
Is not what you'd ever call nfce.'
Charles Walp read five lines to the
goes on:
'"The building Observatory
Is not what you'd think it to be
For you can't find at all
Within its stone wall
The stars which outside you may see.
the library, Laurens Whittemore to the
chapel, Winona McLatchey to Boswell
and Roy Davis to the gym"
Class Day Program.
Several hundred spectators stood in q
semi-circle about the bell and heard the
class day program. At the conclusion
of the limericks the groups moved to
college by Dean Rodgers on behalf of
his class. John D. Mulvane and Robert
Stone responded for the trustees.
The seniors picnicked at luncheon
behind Boswell hall. Their next fes-
tivity will be an alumni reunion. On
Thursday. diplomas in hand, they pass
out Of the ivy covered buildings. The
officers of the class are: Dean ROdg-
ers. president; Roy Davis, vice presi-
dent; Helen Shirk, secretary; Eugene
Thompson, treasurer.
The trustees reelected this morning
were: A. A. GODDARD. c. NJ. Sheldon.
NJ. A. Low. w. w. Mills. Topeka: A. D.
Tucker, Eureka; Otis L. Benton, Ober-
lin; A. D. Kendall. Valley Falls, and
M. L. Alden, Kansas City.
Tomorrow's program begins with
the Gamma-Alethean breakfast in
the college library at 1880. The Ag-
mes Mitchell Fairfield memorial pipe
organ will be dedicated in the chapel
at 10 o'clock. Reproduction of
scenes from the May fete will be Civ
en- on the campus in the afternoon.
The annual concert OF the faculty of
the conservatory Of music and the
presidents reception have been
planned for the evening.
Hosts of old Washburn grads
wearing the blue button hocked over
the campus today. shaking hands, ex-
changing "reminiscences and deciding
on the eats to be brought to the
alumni class reunions to be held on
the campus Wednesday afternoon.
One hundred members of the
alumni association came to Topeka
from neighboring towns, cities and
states. 1t is expected that this num-
ber will be doubled or tripled next
year when the college will celebrate
its fftieth anniversary.
Academy Graduates.
Six students were graduated from
Washburn academy last night. Law
renee Graves received the trustee
scholarship, four years. tuition at the
college. The other graduates are
Katherine Hand. Myrtle Mccall and
Helen Simmons, Topeka; Charles
Graves, Inman. and John Mingle,
New Florence. Pa.
Honors for the year were won as
follows: 1914, Katherine Hand and
Myrtle Mccall; 1916, Dorothy Crane,
Elizabeth Edison, Margaret McKibben,
Mildred Gwen and Gertrude Wheeler;
1917. Aura Mccall and Marie Moore.
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