WELVI THE MICHIGAN DAILY .SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1925 An An( The value of t colleges and uni history and pie serves to remind continuity and di recalls the honor lish universityn Gown is utilitaria the differences a and degrees of wx In 1893 therea sity Magazine" a and Gown in An was responsible the Intercollegi 1895 at Albany, N utes passed by t tacitly accepted; tem of scholarly Distinctions in; quite simple: ba doctor's beingt types. The most lor's, has longp master's gownl sleeve square at well below the kn the elbow, the do like a judge's- velvet facing, an sleeves. Gowns system, hoods a construction. Ca following colors partment of lear Arts and Letters Theology and Di Laws .......... Philosophy ..... Fine Arts...... Science ......... Medicine....... Music .......... Pharmacy ..... Dentistry... Foretry." .. .. . Veterinary' "cien Literary Science Pedagogy . :. Commerce and The colors no and are impress historical signifl arts and lettersc fur of the Oxfor hoods; the red the traditionalc signifying, arden purple for la4c purple of the~- green of modi i surgeon's nio supposed, from herbs. Philvsop the color of "tru gold yellow of s wealth of scient was taken fromt scuibed for th, music; olive, alJ medicine, was s while russet ac taken from the esters" who wo their brown Oct The task ofs : li61il I1 1ItI l III tr cient Custon; Caps, Gowns, And Hoods Student Life At Lausanne a Of Colleges And Their Symbolic Meanings thaigdi he Cap and Gown to man's love of color has resulted in a tem or relationship in the hoods. Th iversities lies in its system of official arrangements for N1ach has an arbitrary and independ- young, having acquired its name as distinct parts, one section being en- cturesqueness, which about two hundred and fifty colleges. ent code scarcely known outside its recently as 1890. It was in 1838, tirely serious, while the other has the wearers of the A study in heraldry resulted in the Ibounds. When worn in America the however, that the separation into the no pretensons of seriousness The gnity of learning. It choice of th^ following colored hoods :hoods are rarely understood beyond three faculties was adopted, Geology, first is devoted to the reading of ac red roll of the Eng- (A few of the famous) the fact that the red cloth of the doe- Law, and Academic-Scientific, with a paper whose subject varies accordhigt men. The Cap and Amherst . Purple with white chevron tor's indicates the possession of a total of seventeen professorships. In to their tastes or to the departm-nt 1 an in that it subdues Brown......................Brown doctorate from some British univer- 1869 a new faculty was instiuted by to which they belong. By these gath-c rising from fashion Bryn Mawr .......................... sity. They are, however, quite decor- separating the Scientific f*bm the erings each member is able to broad- t ealth. Maize with white chevron ative. Academic department, while a recent en his education outside the boin-a appeared in "Univer- Colombia.......... ...........-.German universities do not pre- law, May 15, 1916, creates the follow- daries of his specific studies. A dis-t n article on the Cap ..Light blue with white chevron scribe the use of hoods as degrees ing division: the Protestant Divinity cussion follows the paper.t merica. This article Cornell-............... ........-are not conferred in public. When School, a Faculty of Law, The School It is better to lower the curtain on for the calling of Carnelian with 2 while chevrons the intercollegiate system is used it of Social and Political Science, the second act of this meetin and be ate Commission of Dartmouth...................Green has become the custom to use caps, Institute of Scientific Police, The content with listening. One's ears New York. The stat- George Washington University...-..gowns and hoods of the appropriate School of Medicine, the Academic De- are quite sufficient to see what hap-r his group have been. ......... Blue with buff chevron) degrees, The German universities are partm'ent, and The Scientific School pens. The second act begins as fol-t as the uniform sys- Georgetown ..........---......represented as follows: which includes a department of Math- lows: a song, a great deal of noise costume. .Gray with ble chevronPurple ematics and Physical Natural Sci- animal imitations, roars, etc, a sing,. gowns and hoods are Hlarvard ................... Crimson University of Freiburg .. Dark green ences, an Engineering school and atanonsot me ero chelor's, master's and Hamilton........................... University of Gottinger:......Yellow School of Chemistry. The Acaiemic somectiny onof tese merts the three respective.. ..........Blue with buff chevron iversity of Halle...........White Department institutes every c.oimer to one of his comrades. Lots of noise, common, the bache- Holy Cross ... .. .. .. .. .. .. . .Purple U Iniversity of H eidelburg .. .. ...Red special courses for foreign.u The a song, more recitations, midnight, pointed sleeves;-the Johns Hopkins.....................- University of Munich .... Light blue length of the study for obtaining ti silence immediately ensues. A voicer has a long closed .....Black with gold chevron University of Leipsiz ................degee varies between four and six- is heard intoning and the chant is1 the end and coming Lehigh........................... ..............Green above white hal f years. The number of. profes- itaken up by all the other voices with-E nee, the arm slit near . Brown with white chevron University of Jena .................. sorships at the University is now one-lout a hitch and the midnight mass is octor's gown is much Manhattan ........................-.Green above gold hundred and thirty- begun, sung in complete drakness having open sleeves, White with green chevron IJniversity of Wurszburg............. Except from a financial standpoint After this rite, the meeting goes o d three bars on the New York.University........Violet, ..., ,.... Blue above white the students of the University of Lau - better than ever until the very earlyt follow the English Princeton......................... University of Tubingen ..............sanne are completely independent of hours of the morning. These gath- are of an American ......Orange with black chevron .. .......Red above black it. That is, they are free to go to erings are the best cure for sensi-I ap tassels are of the Rutgers ............. . ...... Scarlet University of Bonn ................. .classes if they so desire and to appear tiveness, vanity, timidity, and forI according to the de- Spracutse ...................Orange...............White above black i at the examinations if that is their breaking of bad tempers in general, ning: St. Francis Xavier ...... ............University of Strasburg... ........pleasure. In like manner thev are This is certainly the best advantage1 s .............White .....Maroon with blue chevron . .. .Black above red with white entirely independent among them- of the societies of these Lausanne; vinity ....... Scarlet St. Stephens ...............Cardinal chevron selves, having nly the common bond tudIents-to prepare the future doctor . .............Purple Tufts . . . . Br own w ith li chevroI University of Breslau................of the Alma Mater. There are stu- or engineer easily to sustain the little! ...............Blue Tulane . ... Olive with blue chevron.........Black above white with red dent societies, however, which aim at idiosyncrasies of others and to be-I ..............Brown Union......................Garnet chevron affording entertainment and help in I come congenial. .... Gold Yellow University of California..............Royal Normal College, Munich ...... .their studies. Of these clubs or or- iDuring the winter term four of the ..''.......''....Green .. . .Gold silks ith blue chevron I'uinthwieremforfte .................................Blue and white panels ganizations there are twelve that are national societies each gives a lit- .............. . Pink University of Chicago ........r.....The hoods of all the German univer- exclusively national, while the others eary evening. The show begins with ...............Live University of Michigan......sities are laid upon a tr-chevron of cater to foreigners. The active mem- a prologue, which was formerly at . . . .. . . . . . . . Russet University of Pen n sylvania......... black, white and red. berships in these, numbers on an kind of satiric poem recited beforai GrRed with blue chevron The Intercollegiate Bureau and its average, about one-hundred and the curtain by the best orator of the ne ...........Wray .........Dark bl officers have been called the "apostles eighty. About fifty ter cent of the society. Today it has become indeed ..i.g.h.t.... . .lue Wesen..................... of the intercollegiate code." In their" student lody belongs to them and the a take-off in one act on college life. ht Blue eyanpotory at Albany some 500 Cap others are called "Camels" by the They vie with each other in ridiculing Accountancy .. Drab.....Cardinal with black chevrondeoiryaAlnysm 50Cp t only please the eye Williams..............Royal Purple and Gown volumes of "collegiana" students portant beurs couleurs. It the professors and all the other local, "ive, but they have a Mt. HoIyoke............Light blue have been received. H-undreds of col- is impossible to account for the pres- national, and foreign characters, who cance.bThewhiteforM Of course collegecolorsare better lege publications are sent there a- ence of this quaint "animal" in the have the honor to be famous at Lau- ances The white or nOf course college bolon's than out- nually. There are letters on file of university vocabulary. sanne. Then there ensues a play or comes from the white known within their bounds menou-sun.plyo d and Cambridge B.A. side; but at centennials and other men 'listinguished in all fields of ac- Each society is distinguished from two of a classical strain or particu- for theology follows great convocations visiting delegates tivity whho have been honored by the others and the rest of humanity lar high-brow tone. Formerly all the color of the church, from American and foreign universi- academic degrees. The Bureau of by a ribbon of a particular color t love and zeal. The ties, if present, serve to advertise Academic Costume was founded in from which the name of student por- comes from the royal their respective institutions. In the 1887 and was chartered in 1902 by the taut couleurs is derived. In addition, kings' courts. The British universities there is no sys- regents of the University of the state the members observe different ('us- In A ddition of New York. Its work has centered toms, for' exanple at midday they as- ue is from the army rm nd ermier my isabout academic regalia and the cere- semble in the center of the city to the color of medicinal European Tours monals connected with professional talk for a good quarter of an hou Sr, hy is known by blue, ForCollegeMenand Women life. Every week, generally Friday night, to a Wonderful Stock, uth and wisdom"; the SUMMER 1925 cience represents the Wonderful Service ific discoveries. Pink 64 Days the pink brocade pre- $395 and up Le Oxford doctors of lied with the green of College credit up to 8 hours Ernst Brothers elected by pharmacy; if desired should ccording to one was For full particulars address "jolly old English for-on ELECTRIC SHOP re it as they quaffed NEW YORK UNIVERSITYad TusDivision S m ftesee Phone 7776 obErae. te co e o East 4Znd Street New York onmo th s e you can record while 104 N. Fourth Ave. '16E ll¢I~lI11HlI1111111111111Nllilill6 II~l 111111lherlllilealltllltllellU here at the University roles, both feminine and masculine, were taken by students and today itI must be "regretted" that they gener- ally call upon pretty girls to take the feminine parts. After the literary evening there naturally follows ai dance. The show is sometimes given again in a small city. Each society often goes for an out- ng and particularly at Christmas the miembers hunt the forest around the city for a pine. The finding of the tree is the occasion for a solemn cere- mony in which the oldest of the so- ciety cuts down the tree. Their en- trance into Lausanne is conducted in an extremely democratic fashion in the parts of the peasants. Going through the town is an ancient cus- tom. The six national societies form an association called the "Tunis," finds numerous recreations, of course the theater, and above all, music. There are many musical recitals, and many another recreation could be add~edb, which it woul~ be superfluous to describe. It is useless to speak any further on the subject of professors, students, and of the university life in Switzer- land. One could try to describe the atmosphere of the University, but it is an intangible something which is impossible to define and whch can only be gained by actually studying at one of the universities. (Copyright 1924 by C. S. Halght Jr.) The Credo Afield- ' (Continued from Page Eleven) whose chairmanship is conferred by . rotation to each member during the with whom one ordinarily associates term. a Phi Beta Kappa key and asked her Although sports have no place infto write an opinion on the question. o She consented and wrote, one -that the societies, "portant couleurs", they would have done credit to a professor. are of great importance in the life of Upon handing it back the reporter the Lausanne student. The sport cen not icedI that she hadl failed to,,put ter is formed by La Section Sportive down her, name and class.iHe taked Univeritaire. Its grounds, situated her for them and all he got.ke- near a lake, are some of the most tur wash ahor-tien }iook. beautiful in Switzerland. The sport yst cru was a horror-stricken f k events of local character are two in Why, she could not think of silh a number: Le Championnat Interne de thing, no it was out of the question l'Univeritaire, which is played on the her answer. Instead of that itwas grounds of the S. S. U. at Vidy, and her aser.thnshead o wnhsoa the contests in football between th suggsted that she put down somo other name, one as if it were, her students. The Chzamprionnat in turn!"o d(pue.Totiheare is merely an athletic event and %!o epum otisseare is erey a atletc eenta md aand chose June Cameron, because. she fairly large number of players join it, always thought it so romantic. s so that they can select the team ys which is to defend the colors of Lai- In another instance the rep6rter sanne at the contests of the Swiss In- Iasked a woman student to writend ter-University Championships. she just blushed. No amouni of The rivalry of the college ma ni- a'rumernt on the reporter's part could fests itself in the hotly-conteste l induce her to write. She chdined games. Naturally Switzerland can- that she was awfully busy, but would not rival the United States, England, writo the next time he was, in the or France, because they are not so Library. A few days later hf"saw well trained. One cannot attribute her again and one more approached this inferiority in sports to a, definie her. She blushed again and said tha reason, but the economic crisis which e te fat tat she g ust did no Switzerland has undergone is a hiu- drance to the development of sports. want her name in print. She'was The cross-coun t ry run takes place in afrairi that the girls at her house Thecros-cunty un ake plce IIwouldl have too much fun at her~ ex- February or March on about a four o She would not think of. writ- and a half-mile track. 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