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Show "Dummy" Diplomas Given Out to Spare Feelings of Failing Students ! 7 ERY few of those composing the larso audience which recently wit-y wit-y nesssd the exercises of the Salt Lake City High school graduating class know that all who took part in those i exercises were not graduates. When the class of sixty-four young people, peo-ple, clad in student's cap and gown, marched in a circle about the brllllantly-bedecked brllllantly-bedecked stage to receive from President Moyle the diplomas denoting that they had completed the course of study of the city schools, the spectators presumed that all received precisely the mme precious document. But It was not so. A half dozen or moro received only a roll of blank paper. Thoy were members of the clnsH, but they had not completed the course of Htudy. It wan tslmply a piece of Innocent .deception .de-ception to save the feelings of thonc -who bad not panned the examination. It would have been a deep source of mortlilctttlon for these to have had attention attracted to them in no conspicuous a manner as to be missed by the President of the School board w.ien the pl-iaslnu ceremonv of glv-Inff glv-Inff out the diplomas was In progress, so those having the affair in charge decided that nc harm could be done by giving them tho pnpum which meant nothing. It Is said that tho President became slightly confused and gave some of th? genuine diplomas to pupils who were not entitled to them, while the same number of roal sraduatcs drew blanks, but tho mljtikes were all corrcctod after tho ceremony cere-mony was over and the diplomuH were given to those to whom they belonged Principal Gcorjro A. Eaton of the Woyt Sldo High ?chool old not cari to dlncusn the matter of the dummy diplomas when approached on the subject last evening. "There In nothing of public Interest In It," he said "It Is a custom that has ben in voruo for several years, ver plnce tho holdlnrr of the school 'commencement' was abandoned Wo have slmplv class exercises now, In which u 11 members of the class participate whether thoy have graduated or not. It Is a matter that Is undorctood perfectly by all of thorn. Thc.ro arc usually from twelve to twenty in the class who do not complete .the course, nnd I In the presenting of the diplomas' thov are nil given rolls of paper thai there may bo no break In tho ceremony." |