1955's Class Day Excercises Include Orations, Awards

The Alumni Association welcomed graduating seniors into its ranks yesterday at the Class Day ceremony in Sever Quadrangle. After the opening prayer by Rev. George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University, Richard L. Bushman '55 of Salt Lake City gave the Class Oration.

Bushman emphasized that each man must abide by the standard of his own spirit. "Without conscience, thought leads to amorality; without thought, conscience leads to stagnation," Bushman declared.

In the humorous Ivy Oration, Frederick M. Kimball '55 of St. Louis mused that "the dignity of man and the grandeur of his bathroom are intimately connected." The dignity was estimated as being equal "to the cube root of his toilet habits." He said that "the Renaissance began when Leonarde DaVinci reinvented the bathroom. For the first time in a thousand years, people began taking their clothes off, and art began again."

Allen R. Grossman read the Class Poem, "Coming Upon the Azores." Following these ceremonies, Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. '55, First Class Marshall, presented the colors of his class to the freshman representatives. George E. Vaillant '55 of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., read the Class Ode, which the class sang under the direction of Class Chorister Jonathan Steinberg '55.