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Show UNIVERSITY NEWS Commencement exercises on Tuesday morning climaxed the events of "June week" at the University. Un-iversity. Graduating seniors passed pass-ed in formal procession acrosss the campus to Kingsbury Hall, where they heard the last annual address of Dr. George Thomas, retiring University president,' and the Commencement address by Edward Davidson of Colorado University. Graduating exercises for approximately 700 seniors of the Seventy-second graduating class of the state university officially of-ficially began on Sunday afternoon after-noon with the baccalaureate address, ad-dress, delivered by Dr. John A. Widtsoe, L. D. S. church apostle. Following the service a tea sponsored spon-sored by the University Women's club was given in honor of the graduates for their friends, families, fam-ilies, and the faculty members. Monday was Senior day, and activities began at noon with the seniors breakfast. President and Mrs. Thomas presided at. the an-ual an-ual president's reception in the afternoon. af-ternoon. Following official excersises on Tuesday, the seniors, alumni members mem-bers now, and no longer associated associa-ted with undergraduate life, were honored at a formal banquet and dance, sponsored by the Alumni association, in the ballroom of the Union Building. THROW BACK Strophe, antstrophe, epode, tradional Greek chorus, Purgatory, Purga-tory, Paradise, and Bedlam all went into the fashioning of a Greek Drama at the University of Utah Monday night, when English En-glish students started a campus tradition with the presentation in honor of he English Depart ment faculty members. Burlesquing an old Greek drama of the trials of souls and their condemation to Furgatory, students -imitated English department de-partment faculty members with such great success that the audience aud-ience howled with glee as it rec-onized rec-onized characterisations. The scene of the festival was the huge rotunda of the administration adminis-tration building. The audience sat on the stairs in the manner of a Greek Amphitheater, and the three greek maidens of the chorus dwelt in the vast reaches of darkness dark-ness beyond the lighted area, skipping forth to chant choruses about each character. Beginning at midnight, after other campus functions had ended, end-ed, the Greek festival wound up with the burning of faculty members mem-bers in effigy in front of the Park Building. One effigy, stuffed stuff-ed with firecrackers and fired by old brooms in the hands of English En-glish students, was symbolic of the whole faculty, having the mus tach of one, the glasses of another, anoth-er, the folded hands of a third, the floppy ears of still another, and so on. Students burned old term papers, themes, and test papers, and faculty members tossed toss-ed huge piles of final examinations on the flames in the burning of the books which followed. Each student and teacher made a short speech as he consigned his pile to the fire. A torchlight procession, process-ion, lighted by the flaming brooms, wound its way around the campus, and bacon and scram-bled-egg breakfast on the Park Building steps concluded the activities ac-tivities of the evening. AU REVOIR A tiny booklet bound in the University colors of white and red containing a freindly farewell address ad-dress in French was the gift cf i Continued On page 5) UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (Continued from page 1) the University of Utah French conversation teacher to the graduating grad-uating seniors who had been her pupils. The Frenchwoman, employed as conversational director by the University Un-iversity of Utah Modern Languages Languag-es Department, gives each advanced advanc-ed student an hour of private in struction a week, to improve French accent and to help ' improve im-prove the student's command of informal French. The little booklet contained a description of the campus at Commencement time in the best French literary style, and an ef-fectionate ef-fectionate goodby to graduating seniors, who have become more than mere students to their friendly instrunctor. |