DEGREE DAY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1002, 17 December 1910, Page 3

DEGREE DAY.

KOWDf/'SqE^ES;. AT-,NEAV, Iftlsa- i CMVLKSIfY •• ' - - .' ; •; / • •' ** The first'. Degree • 'Dajj-•! w•" connecHoi"' with- the recently-constituted-. -National: ■ University of Ireland was marked by dis/-' graceful scenes of rowdyism. • In prerious years, in the days' of the Koval university. Degree Day-was the occasion.' for humorous outbursts on: the part; of ' the students, but thoss iscenes were trifl--. mg when-compared 'with sach-W -toot-; place;' on ■ this-occasion.'' ' v::: The student's;- mustered in. strong force" in the galleries, 1 and in addition to amns- • ing; themselves calls and'.the; ringing -of beUs, provided' themselves with some' novel forms ~of ammunition. ■ with, which to aim at-'the'innocent". guests;, beneath them on the ground -floor:-These..-took the form of cold boiled potatoes/ bags of flour, and"'sq'nibs.' ' TKe" potatoes' were aimed principally at ladies' hats and 1 gentlemen's bald heads wherever they., could : be observed; and ':.tliev-press • table also made;a target'for jinweleome-; visitations. : ' 1 The Vice-GbanceUor; Sir .' Christopher Nixon, LL.D., had > to. abandon -the" at.". teinptvto read : his address, and,tho; sub-.;', sequent calling; up of v the • candidate?. graduates :to ■■ receive'- their' hoiiours'-'de-velop&l. into" a" soene like Bedlam; ind became: ail impossibility.' Bags; bfvflour,, squibs, ; and .potatoes/were flung;..with;-'re-hewed 'ardour,-showers 'of' sparks; scat- . tered. among,. the., ladies' dresses, and in , the '■Eiid- tlie priss/.table- presented too •' much of a collection , of gratuitous : ar/. : tides.',not required, for,: journalistic,-p'ur-;' poises to make -Uncomfortable :for_.tbe-r£-.:. pcrters.io..remain-any. longer, and. they: were obliged tp.-'ltavev. . _ ." The proceedings ended as they , begun, and/resulted in-, a; scene/of tu'rbulenoe.'- It',, was- a sorry ;sight to. see members of "the; ■Senate, Government officials, prominent" .friends of the-University; and'their, ladv: friends leaving the pla.ce- of meeting-iritb clothes ..bedaubed with flour, or otherwise/ soiled. /'.:' . ■.;