Career & Graduation Guide
Graduation
trip down
memory lane
□ Graduation
traditions date
back to 1878
For over a century, winding
up four years of a college
education and endeavors
has been a difficult and some
what scary activity for some grad
uates, but it has been pure relief
for others.
It is an activity that has been
occurring since 1878 when the
first graduating class went
through its commencement cere
mony.
Although times have changed
since that first ceremony, com
mencement as a whole has
remained quite similar to the orig
inal Numbers have increased in
terms of class size and it takes
graduates a bit more time to go
through the entire process, but in
general the ceremonies are quite
the same.
The first graduating class con
sisted of a mere five people and
none of them wore those crazy
looking caps and gowns that
appear on our modern graduates.
As a matter of fact, the caps
and gowns did not begin their
graduate fashion fad until 1897.
"They were expensive and
people just could not afford to
order them back then," said Keith
Richard. University archivist
“Graduates just dressed up and
went as they were."
Richard said the diplomas
were different in the "old days”
as well as the dress. The first
diplomas were much larger and
printed on genuine sheep skin. In
fact, they were so large that when
framed they covered about a four
foot by two foot space on the wall
and they cost each graduate $20.
That would seem to be quite a
large piece of rolled up sheep
skin to tote off the stage after
accepting the diploma, but lucky
for old time grads, this was not
the case for those students of the
past
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