Editor's
notes
The circumstances behind the
pomp
Going backstage for Chicago’s Spring Convocation
offers another way of seeing a ritual event.
Session II of the 477th Convocation, held alfresco
in Harper Quadrangle on Friday, June 11, at 3:30 p.m., featured
blue sky, green leaves, gray limestone, and colorfully attired family
members choosing vantage points from rows of folding chairs. Led
by the Highlands drone of the University of Chicago Pipe Band, the
procession marched happily if self-consciously through Cobb and
Hull Gates: marshals and student marshals, degree candidates, professors,
trustees and officers, Rockefeller dean and convocation speaker,
candidates for teaching awards and honorary degrees, provost and
president.
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Chicagophile
Cartoonist Jessica Abel, AB’91,
sees Court Theatre do classic drama with a contemporary twist.
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Letters
…use of “major”
was coined by William Rainey Harper…
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