The audience rises and sings with the class the greeting to all loyal classmen to pay homage
to the Red and Blue.

Leaving and Coming Back, continued

The Marx Brothers at Penn
One of the humorous happenings—and they came along every minute—was the choosing of the rooms at our hotel where we stayed overnight. Men picked rooms carefully, leaving the door open, a suitcase on the bed to show occupancy. The latecomers, finding the best rooms taken up, calmly placed their own suitcases on the bed and the other suitcases under the bed. This denoted occupancy and also prevented the first occupants from even finding their suitcases. While these men chuckled over their strategy and sat up late, others crept to bed, threw both suitcases out of the choice rooms into the hall and locked the door and went to sleep.—“63 Men Back for ’99 C,” June 27, 1919

Commencement Comes to Campus
This year’s Commencement will be held on the campus instead of in the Metropolitan Opera House. This will be the first time in the history of the University that Commencement exercises will be held on the campus. The feature of the new form of Commencement will be the academic procession. It is planned to have the graduating classes assemble in their various departmental buildings and then join the procession, headed by the faculty, the Board of Trustees and other officers. The procession will then proceed through the campus to Weightman Hall. It is felt that the new form of Commencement will be much more acceptable and give a truly university atmosphere to it.—April 28, 1922

One Beloved Spot
All that is new and interesting finds its way quickly into the colleges. All that is old and valuable is preserved there. There is no figure, however, comprehensive enough to symbolize the multiplicity of functions of a college. Cloister, wireless station, exchange, laboratory, watchtower raised toward the stars—college is all of these and a thousand things else. “Cosmopolitanly planned,” college prepares men to judge the value of things in life, and begins their training for those professions that direct the most important work of the world.

God gave all men earth to love,
But since our hearts are small,
Ordained for each one spot should prove
Beloved over all.

That “one spot … beloved over all” is Pennsylvania, our college. But let not our hearts be so small as to allow only “our” college. Pennsylvania belongs, too, surely, to our country and to the world.—Commencement address by Dr. Cornelius Weygandt, June 30, 1922

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