The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1889-03-01
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY cELesaArlon.
The President and His Wife and Other Dis-
ffnOnIshed People la Attendance.

The President and His TiJe and Other Die
Unpublished People la d~he,daacs.
Washington dispatch: President and
Mrs. Cleveland attended the centennial
celebration OF Georgetown university
this afternoon. They held a reception
in university hall after services.
The exercises of the centennial cell
ebration of Georgetown university
closed this afternoon. The honorary
degrees were conferred by President
Cleveland. Several addresses were de-
livered, after which the degrees were
conferred as follows: Doctor of laws,
the Hon. Thomas +. Bayard, secretary
of state; the Hon. Honore Mercier,
prime minister of Quebec; the Hon.
Augustus II. Garland, attorney general;
the Hon. Emilio De Murnage, +. F.
and NJ. p. of Spain; the Hon. John Lee
Carroll, the Hon. Nathan Golf, Gen.
w. s. Rosecrans, Hon Zacharia Mont
gomery, John Culinary Shea, John L.
Doyle. of California; George f. Hamil-
ton, M. d.; Thomas Dwight, John
Boyle. O'Reilly and Maurice +.
Eazar. Three gold medals were struck
in honor of the centennial celebration,
which were awarded as follows: One to
John Culinary Shea, LII. d., historian
of the Catholic church in America
for his work, "Life and Times
of Archbishop CARROLL" a gold medal,
struck by the alumni association, and
presented to his eminence James Glib
bons, for the archepiscopal see of Balti-
more, and a gold medal, like the pre-
oalf,,r - D,aInrk (rn, T1o,ynl
for the government of the United States.
President Cleveland spoke as follows:
In the moment | shall occupy, L shall
not speak of the Importance in a general
sense of a liberal education, or refer to
the value of universities like this as a
means for acquiring such an education;
nor will [ remind You of all the causes
for congratulation which this centennial
occasion affords. These things have
been presented to you in all that yon
have seen and heard here, in days
just passed, and they are suggested
by the atmosphere about us. L
think this college as an alma mater,
and calling to mind the volume of
love and affection which he's been
turned toward her from the great out
side of her alumni during the hundred
years of her life, and at this time espec-
tally awakened, another thought, born.
[ suppose, of the solemn trust which l
have held for the American people,
prompts me to say a word concerning
the relations which such institutions as
this should bear to American citizen
ship. Men of learning we always need,
but we also need good citizenship. There
should not be that selfishness in educa.
ton which leads its possessOr to live
within himself. and to hug his treasure
with sordid satisfaction. The least that
All educated man should do is to make
himself a good, true American citizen;
and he fails to do his duty if he does
not assist in the improvement of the
citizenship of others. His love of coun-
try should be great. His interest in
public affairs should at all times be ac-
tive, and his discharge of the duties of
citizenship should be guided by all the
intelligence he possesses, and aided by
all the learning he has acquired.
Georgetown college should be proud
of the impress she has made upon the
citizenship of our country. l cannot
express my friendship for your college
better than to wish for her in the future,
as she has in the past, an army of
alumni-learned, patriotic and useful
c%herishing good of their country as an
object of the %loftiest effort, and deeming
their contributions to good citizenship
supremely worthy the use of the educa-
ton they have acquired ithwin these
walls.