The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-08
Promenade on the Campus Last
Night a Success.
Music and Dancing Followed
by ImprOmptu Parties.

Liberal arts department.
Ernest Elmer Bearg, Severance;
Donald N. Billings, Topeka; Margaret
Black, Burlingame; Raymond Hamil-
ton Carpenter, Rockville, Mo- Lucille
Chandler, Hoxie; Lola Curry, Topeka;
Dorothy Delight Dales, Eureka; Helen
Harriet Dick, Topeka; Herman d.
Ewers, independence; Winifred Eliza
beth Greene, Topeka; Harold William
Greider, Topeka; Milton Clarence
Gugler, Chapman; William Harrison
Guild Bern; Eliza Claude Higbee, Os-
borne; Warren Award Humphrey,
Chanute; Ruth Kelly, Topeka; Villa
Henderson, Topeka; Ross Leonard
Layborn, Nickerson; Charles Luc1an
Lewis, Topeka; Carl K. Linge. To-
peka Herbert Bernard Lopez, Or
leans, Neb.; Marjorie Lyle, Glen Ell
der; Ernie Theodore McCord, To-
peka; John Charles March, Topeka;
Raoul Finney Markham, Topeka; Mil
dred May Marsh. Topeka; Edwin Ar
mold Menninger, Topeka; Margaret
Grace Owen, Topeka; Clyde Elmer
Partridge, Topeka: Frank Wagner
Peers Topeka; Frances Louise Perry
Topeka; Richard Scott Fighter, To-
peka; Marian Eleanor Ring, Hawar-
den. Iowa; Frank Arthur Ripley, To-
peka; Esther V. Ross, Topeka: Mar
shall Thomas Sanders, Bihe, Angola
Africa; Hampton Francis Shirer. To-
peka; Louis Rollen Smith, Topeka;
Doris Henrietta Stark. Topeka; Will
liam Conrad Stein, Halstead; Leslie
James Stewart, Topeka; Merrill Hart
TempIeton, Topeka; Ella May VALID
ron, Topeka; Ada Blair walker, To
peka; Donald Day Welty, Topeka;
john Mcconnell Williams, Topeka:
Genevieve Anna Wise Topeka; John
Warner Young, Topeka; Lillian Erna
Zutavern, Great Bend.
Law Department.
Herbert J. Beals, Cedar Rapids.
Iowa; William H. Burnett, Hutchinson;
Otto Glen Elbe, Lyons; Alfred Ray
Enfield, lola; George D. Freeze, Good
land Ralph w. Gardner, Ashland;
Clyde ]. Gibson, Kensington; w. Glenn
Hamilton, Holton; George T. McNeish,
Scranton; James E. Mowery, Scott
City; Roy Painter, Norton; Leroy E.
Garden City; LIE Rue Royce, Denver,
Colo; Elisha Scott. Topeka; Howard S.
Searle. Topeka; Earl Trobert, Topeka;
Eugene Villipigue. Topeka.
Fine Arts Department.
Virginia Taliaferro. Topeka; Emily
Hardy, Topeka; Mabel Sheldon.
More than three hundred attended
the alumni banquet. A cabaret enter
tainment was given by Donald Welty,
Frank Ripley, the glee club. and the
Phi Delt orchestra. The mo speech"
rule was broken by continued calls for
next years coach, Bert Kennedy, who
responded with a short booster
speech for Washburn athletics. The
crowd then took the street cars to the
campus for the Washburn Walk
The event proved to be big success.
The campus was lighted by hundreds
of Japanese lanterns and decorated
with many rustic arches and benches.
In a reviewing stand by the side of
The Promenade" were President and
Mrs. Womer, Dean and Mrs. MacEach-
ron and several of the trustees
Trough the evening the knights and
Ladies of Security band furnished
music for the promenaders who were
Among the dances were: The Pipes
o Pan Dance" the Butterfly Dance"
and the Fairy Dance"
The Dancers.
The following girls looks part in the
dance:
Butterfly Dancers - Gertrude
Wheeler, Caroline Newson, Nally Fox,
Gertrude Harling, Margaret Marshall,
Edith Edison
Fairy Dancers-Margaret SuydaIn,
Ruth Thompson, Beatrice Rush, Faye
Bonjour, Pauline McVey, Helen Welty,
Sabra Epler. Anne Hawley.
Flower Dancers Marjorie Herrig,
Laurene Crary, Dorothy Harrington,
Edith Stark, Florence Fair.
Merriment increased after the walk
which was followed by impromptu
parties at the Frat and sorority
houses and later by the annual might
shirt frolic" III which alumni students
capered in pajamas before the dormi-
tories and sorority houses by the light
Of red fuses. SerenadeS by the students
disturbed College Hill the rest of the
evening.
Commencement Address.
The commencement address was
given by Dr. Dan Freeman Bradley of
Cleveland. Ohio. His theme was
What Is Discipline ?" and he con-
rasted vigorously the effective dis
cipline of a thorough education with
the idea of military discipline. The
discipline demanded today" Doctor
Bradley declared, lis the discipline
that shall promote love and extfrpate
hate. Military discipline will not do
it. The only thing that will do it is
justice-justice breathed and bred
into the fabric of the life of our youth.
Justice to the other man-black,
white, red. or yellow as he may be-
In closing, Doctor Bradley instanced
current types of the rightfully dis
ciplined man. His closing example
was a tribute to Doctor Sheldon.
Following the address the degrees
were presented and the seniors re-
ceived their diplomas. A surprise was
then given to the audience in the
presentation of two honorary degrees.
Mrs. C. F. Menninger received a GER
tificate of recognition from the college
for her work in Bible study. Atten-
ton was called to the remarkable
achievements of the Topeka woman.
In her 19 years of teaching DR.
Womer said in the presentation, she
has given instruction to 3.4O0 people:
last year alone 341 people. She has
had / 4 branch classes in Kansas and
IL in other states all over the country.
Her students in Bible study are now
given high school credit
A Roosevelt ovation" greeted the