Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-02-23
HONORARY DEGREES.
The President Is Made the Rccipi
ent of n Gold Medal.

The President Is Made the Rccipi-
ent of n Gold Medal.
WASHINGTON, February 22.-President
and Mrs. Cleveland attended the Cen
tennial celebration at Georgetown Uni.
versity this afternoon. They were re-
ceived with the usual honors and were
given prominent seats on the platform.
At the conclusion OF the regular pro-
gramme the President and Mrs. Cleve-
land held reception in the University
hall.
The exercises Of the centennial cele.
/bration closed in the afte ernoon. The
honorary degrees were conferred
by President Cleveland, who said, in
part: ~ am thinking of this college as
an Alma Mater, and calling to mind the
volume of love and affection which has
been turned toward her from the great
outside world Of her alumni during the
hundred years of her life, and at this
time especially awakened. Another
thought, born, suppose, of the solemn
trust which have held for the
American people, prompts me to cay
a word concerning the relation which
such an institution as this should bear to
American citizenship. Men of learnice
we at all times need. but we also need
good citizenship. There should not be
that selfishness in education which leads
its possessor to live within himself and to
hug his treasure with sordid salts.
faction. The least an educated man
should do is to make himself a
good, true American citizen, and he fails
to do his entire duty if he does not also
improve the citizenship of others. Thus
his love of country should be great, his
interest in public affairs should at all
times be active, and his discharge
of the duties of citizenship should
be guided by all the intelligence he pos.
sesses and aided by all The learning he
has acquired. Georgetown College should
be proud of the impression she has made
upon the citizenship of our country.
cannot express my friendship for your
college better than to wish for her in
the future as she has had in the past, an
army of alumni, learned, patriotic and
useful, cherishing the good of their coun.
try as the object Of their loftiest effort
and deeming their contributions to good
citizenship supremely worthy by the use
of the education they have acquired
!, addresses were delivered, after which
Q euO uokroo5 WCI0 dS iOiAoWo
Doctor Of Laws, Hon. Thomas F. Bay
ard, Secretary Of State; Hon. Honore
Mercier, Prime Minister OF Quebec
Hon. Augustus H. Garland, Attor
ney General; Hon. Emilio d.
Muruaga, L. E. and M. P. o
Spain; Hon. John Lee Carroll, Hon
Nathan Goff, Gen. w. S. Rosecrans
Hon. Zachariah Montgomery John Gil
mary Shea, LII. D. /; John T. Doyle, Cal
ifornia; George E. Hamilton, M. d.
Thomas Dwight; John Boyle O'Reilly
and Maurice F. Egan. Three golc
medals were struck in honor of the cen
tennial celebration, which were awarded
as follows: One to John Culinary Shea
Ii. D., historian of the Catholic Church
in America, for his work ON "The Lift
and Times of Archbishop Carroll !" a
gold medal, struck by the Alumni Asso
citation, presented to his Eminenc
James, Cardinal Gibbons, of the Arcbi
piscopal See Of Baltimore, and gol'
medal, like the preceding. to Presiden
Grover Cleveland for the Government q
the United States.