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Daily Iowan, July 22, 1919

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PAGE TWO THE DAILY IOWAN, STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1919 THE DAILY IOWAN A morning paper published during the six weeks summer session on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays by the Daily Iowan Publishing company at 103 Iowa avenue, Iowa City Entered as second class matter, at the post office of Iowa City, Iowa Under direction of department of journalism, Room 14, liberal arts building MILDRED E. WHITCOMB, in charge MEMBER IOWA COLLEGE PRESS Subscription Rate .... 50 cents the summer BOARD OF TRUSTEES C.H. Weller, chairman, E.M. McEwen, Mary Anderson, Marian Dyer EDITORIAL STAFF BETH WELLMAN Editor-in-chief Telephone, Black 1757; Office hours 1-5 Daily. Room 14, L.A. building Marian Dyer Managing Editor Mary E. Rice Associate Editor BUSINESS STAFF ROMOLA LATCHEM, Business Manager Telephone, 935; Office hours, Daily 9-12 103 Iowa Avenue HONOR THE SENIORS "All members of the faculties and all candidates for certificates and degrees are requested to present themselves in academic costume at the time and place mentioned." The foregoing notice appears on the University calendar for this week, in an announcement relative to the convocation which is to be held Friday afternoon. From observations at several other convocations held in the past few years, we venture to state that the part of the procession including the "members of the faculties" will be proportionately very much smaller than that including the "candidates for certificates and degrees." True, the candidates who are about to receive their certificates and degrees feel it to their best interest to be present, for they do not graduate but once; and the members of the faculties are only requested, not required to appear in academic costume. When there are about four hundred students coming up for degrees and certificates as at the end of the regular year, the absence from the procession of two-thirds of the members of the faculty is not so noticeable. But how much more dignity their appearances in cap and gown would lend to the occasion. When, however, the graduating class numbers about fifty, as it does at this first convocation of the summer, their absence makes a big gap in the procession. The line of march as planned for Friday, being somewhat longer than usual, gives an added reason for desiring the presence of as many of the professors and instructors as can come. What we would like to see is a sort of tradition built up that each and every member of the instructional staff would not think of missing the opportunity of donning his academic costume and turning out to see the seniors receive the formal acknowledgment of the completion of their course. We would like to have them regard this as a pleasure and a privilege, and not as a disagreeable duty to be avoided if posible [sic]. We would like to have them feel a pride in thus honoring the ones who are leaving the institution. The exercises at the first convocation of the summer are to be held out in the open, in the shad of the big trees on the campus. A good speaker has been chosen to deliver the address. There seems to be no reason why a majority of the staff could not turn out. Some day in the not distant future we hope it will be regarded as a serious breach of etiquette to miss one of these exercises. THINE OR MINE Neglecting to return an umbrella to its rightful owner has long been the subject of jokes in our humorous magazines and in the humorous columns of our papers. The person who borrows a book and forgets to return it has furnished material for the pen of many a writer. You can hardly pick up a magazine devoted entirely to wit without finding in it a story based on one or the other af [sic] these ideas. The popularity of these themes is an indication of the extent to which these practices are indulged in. If we were managing a humorous magazine covering University doings, we would be tempted to add another item to the list, that of fountain pens. The loss of fountain pens here equals if not surpasses, the loss of umbrellas. Let a student lay down a pen and leave it for a few hours. When he returns, nine chances out of ten, the pen has mysteriously disappeared. Books, too, have a weird way of walking off when the owner is not looking. These Bolshevistic methods of doing away with property holding, while they may afford amusement to others, are not quite so funny to the owner, especially about the time he discovers his bereavement. Of late The Daily Iowan office has been subject to more than the usual amount of such practices. Newspapers have had a way of leaving us just when they were most wanted. We do not wish to discourage students from using these papers, but there was a definite purpose in view in subscribing to them, and it is rather an impossible feat to keep a complete file when some of the numbers are missing. Within the last week or so, other articles are joining the missing papers, some even after they had been safely put away in the drawers of the desks. Now we are old-fashioned enough to regard each person as having a right to his own property, whether that property be an umbrella, a book, a newspaper, or a pen. We will maintain, until convinced to the contrary, that there is a difference between thine and mine. GOLDEN MOMENTS It's almost over, and what have you got out of it? Oh, to be sure, a couple and nine twenty-seventh credits, maybe, if you've been faithful, a substantial addition to your store of academic wisdom, many toilsome hours of perspiration, and all the other little et cetera that go with a summer course at the University. But—and here's the real question—how much have you been spiritually and emotionally enriched by these six weeks of arduous endeavour? You make a hasty mental review, just as on New Years day you call up all the dim ghosts of the past, (that is, providing you are properly concerned about your spiritual uplift) and find that there are certain moments in the time just gone which stand out clear and unforgettable against the somber back-ground of the daily grind. These are your vital and enduring memories. There is the moment when, in class one day, a certain professor spoke a word or two which thrilled through you like an electric shock—it seemed so new, so keen, so imbued with vitality. "That was as profound a word of wisdom as might have come from Socrates," you said to yourself, afterward; so you put it down in your notebook and up in your head, and resolved to make it an inwrought part of your life, and to profit by it. Then there is moment when an idle chatter with a chance acquaintance on the campus revealed to you suddenly a splendid kinship of taste and temperament, and you said, "Here is sympathy, and fellowship, and a friend." There is the moment when you were browsing among dry didactics in the library, and picked up a book, and turned the pages casually, and scanned a line or two, and then your eyes grew bright, and you stopped scanning and began to read, and read on, fascinated, to finis [sic]. Your apperceptive mass enlarged materially and profitably with the reading of that book. Last, there is the supreme moment when, one evening, drifting across the campus, rather weary, rather indifferent, rather prone to this of life as empty and devoid of moral meaning, you turned a sudden corner and saw, looming above you through the trees, the dome of Old Capitol. At its base were lights, and at the very tip of its staff, above the flag, a beacon which out-shone the first and largest star o fevening [sic], set over it in rosy grey. Then, more than if you had listened to a dozen lectures expounding its virtues, or read a hundred catalogues that sand its praise, or deciphered a thousand statistics on its superiority, you knew the greatness of that University of which it was the symbol. You will never forget how your heart thrilled to know that you were a part of it. Dean George F. Kay will give an address next Sunday afternoon on McGregor Heights. 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