That Capping Show

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 65, 8 June 1927, Page 7

That Capping Show

INTENTIONS OF STUDENTS CITY' MISSION TO BENEFIT It was feared that the old capping carnival song. We have a ceremony grand ” was ..bout to lapse into the past tense owing to the refusal of the college authorities to have a capping ceremony this year. It seems, however, that the ingenuity of the students will get over the difficulty. Preparations are now going on for a function which is to take place in the Town Hall next Tuesday. This has been made possible through the generosity of a patron of the scheme, who wishes for the present to remain anonymous, and who has agreed to foot the bill for the hire of the Town Hall. At a large representative meeting held in the University last evening, Air. Sholto Block explained the proposals for the ceremony as advanced by a committee of students. The function is to consist chietly of a congratulatory ceremony of a serious nature, at which each graduate will be personally congratulated on ixis success. This will be followed by the investing of honorary degrees of a facetious nature on prominent business men. The first annual university prize-giving will also be held. As a prelude to the function, the Rev. Jasper Calder will conduct community singing. “Hymn-sheets” containing popular topical student songs are now being prepared. A charge of Is admission is suggested, the proceeds to go to the Rev. Air. Calder’s City Alission. Air. Black ended his address by r.n earnest appeal to the students to make this ceremony a success by an entire absence of the rowdyism which has characterised such gatherings in the past.