CAPPING DAY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1786, 26 June 1913, Page 4

CAPPING DAY.

CELEBRATION BY STUDENTS. , The capping, ceremony , in connection with Victoria College is being arranged for by tho Registrar of the University this year, tho Victoria College Council having refused to take charge of the proceedings in view of the docision that Auckland degrees should bo conferred here. It' was thought by the council tliat this decision would give riso to some resellt-J ment on the part of tho Auckland students, which might bo expressed at tlie cercmony in some way or other. Tho ceremony will be held in the Concert Chamber of the Town Hall at 3 p.m. to-day. The Chancellor of the University (Sir Robert Stout) will preside, and speeches will be delivered by tho Chancellor, by tho chairman of tho Collego Council (Mr. 11. H. Ostler), and by the chairman of the Professorial Board (Professor Picken). Seats on the platform will be reserved for members of the College Council and members of t.lie Professorial Board; part of the hall will be reserved for graduates and their friends, and students will have space reserved for them in the gallery. Tho rest of tho hall will bo open to tho public. The students will celebrate the great day after the fashion of students tho. world over. At 11.45 a.m. their grotesquo procession will leave St. Peter's Schoolroom and proceed to Veitch and Allan's corner, and then along Cuba Street, Manners Street, Willis Street, and Lambton I Quay to the Government Printing Oilice, returning to the Post Office Square by I way of Featherston Street. At tho Square ' they will burlesqup public happenings such as the opening of Parliament and the reception of the New Zealand. In the evening the usual capping concert will be held.