Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-10-17
A NEW GRADUATE SCHOOL.
It Opened Last Night With an Address
by President yelling
On the Science of Universal History
Considered m the Complement
of the Physical Sciences.


Columbian University was formally opened
In the university building. corner of 18th
and II streets. last evening. Dr. James c.
yelling. president OF the faculty, delivered
the inaugural address, his subject being
The Science of Universal History, Consid-
cred as the Indispensable Complement Of
the Physical Sciences"
The school of graduate studies comprises
ne highest branch of university studies
hose leading to the degrees of master of
science. master of arts, civil engineer, cleo
T1eal engineer. and doctor of philosophy
The students of this school are. therefore,
already graduates. having the degrees of
bachelor in science. arts or letters. The
Columbian Is the only university in the city
having established such a school
The school of graduate stuthes was estab-
tshed BY order of the corporation of the
University at the annual meeting 1882.
The faculty consists of James c. yelling,
LID. president. professor OF history;
Charles F. Munroe, ). b. dean, professor Of
tnemistrs; the Rev. Adoniram j. Hunting
on. ID. D.. professor of Greek: the rev.
samuel NJ Shute. ID. D., professor of Eng
tsh; Andrew +. Montague A NJ, Phi. d.,
professor OF Latin; ]. Howard Gore, B. s..
IN d.. professor OF mathematics; Lee D.
Lodge. A NJ, Phi D.. professor Of French;
VI.
anatomy: Francis r. Fava. jr C. E. pro-
lessor Of civil engineering; Theodore N
Sln. NJ D.. Pm d.. professor of zoology.
smithsonian Institute; Otis T. Mason A.
n. Pm: D.. lecturer on anthropology.
Sau3ndl Museum: Cleveland Able. A. NJ.
IN D.. professor OF meteorology, weather
9Surean' Hermann SchOnfeld. Phi. D., pro-
,essrr OF German; the Rev. J. Macbride
9tsrretI u d. professor of philosophy;
Edgar Frisby. A. NJ. L. S. ", professor of
lvyy,,I3hoEly. naval observatory; William c.
-
5mithsonian Institution: William r Harris,
LII professor OF philosophy. commission
I education: Emil A. de Schweinitz. Phi. D.,
professor Of bio-chemistry; F. w Clarke S
IL. professor Of mineral chemistry, geolosi-
cal survey: Harvey W. Wiley. A. NJ NJ D..
IN. ID; professor of agricultural chemistry
Agricultural Department: the Rev Frank
n blgeiow. A u, professor Of solar ply
sizes. Alexander S. Christie A NJ. LIN
professor Of mathematical physics; George
= Merrill. Pm D.. professor of geology
National Museum: Exum percy cuts
D. instructor In electrical engineering.
DIR. WeIIinE's Address.
pr. yelling In the course of his address
san: Everything in the universe Ia I'm aux
and therefore everything has a history. =,
We could but know it, The solar system has
history. and all the sciences ser tina, HE
tory IN framework of periodic times and
systematic IDEAS
history Is. therefore, the most comprehen-
Aei" or human knowledge. 1t is also
the most distinctive term of human knoyyl-
euse' because nature. through the whole
VAST pyramid Of organic being is prophetic
OF man. the roof and crown of things"
history. then. In its highest sense must be
record OF mans mental and Creative ac-
tiVities on the face OF the earth under the
form Of time. ZIG
Inc science Of universal history has for tts
opJect 10 lmpart unity to the collective con-
sSlousness OF man. by rehearsing the main
Clements or that consciousness in their log
lcdl, because In their CHRONOLOGICAL order Of
evolution What We may call the formula OF
,S I SI Is seen today at its highest estate
anu highest activity in the advancing col
umns OF the most advanced civilization The
WORK or creation Is still going on and Ia
gong on al the point OF its highest ascension
IN the cosnlc order of society
The science of universal history IL a rea-
soned exposition of the creative activities
under whose pressure man has moved for
ward from stage to stage in the subiuea ton
humanities - Ills
The human riind. in the prosecution of
sGentinc discovery. moves along the line of
least resistance. The first sketch Of the sci-
encs or universal history was laid in the
worries moral order. because the moral
order OF the world Is more obtrusiye ON the
rehectlve reason OF man than the intellec-
tu2i order of the world. considered in its
deeper relations. The first expeditions of the
Worhs moral order were the prophets of
Israel The moral order implicit in the fam
clan. in the tribe, in the Confederation Of
tribes, and was raised by them for The first
time. INTO the forms of an explicit and uni
'ersai statement as broad as humanity and
as wide as the world. So sure were they of
this moral order that they predicted its final
supremacy in the reign Of universal right
eousness.
IL Judea had genius for morality. Greece
had a genius for letters and the fine arts "a
Rome had a genius for arms and polity: bur
the analytical and constructive intellect of
tne Greeks. as well as the practical reason
or the polite Romans. failed TO grasp the
conception or progress or of universally in
human history.
Ancient society in Greece and Rome was
its elements and in it's constitution. The
wall of Partition between Greeks and bar
oarians. between conquering Romans and
their subject peoples erected an impossible
barrier 70 the very concept of human soli-
darity. But. with the advent Of Christian
ity, new theory Of history came to the
'front.' Christianity brought into the world
an enthusiasm for humanity made that on
thusiasm as broad as the human race
and. in some Of its later phases, exalted
that enthusiasm even into a passion for
martyrdom-
First Sketches of Christian Philoso-
ply.
The first sketches Of this Christian philos-
ophy OF history may be found in the writ
ings OF Saint Epiohanius. of Saint Jerome
~--N Oul cSpccIdIly IN the elaborate
expoSitiOns of Saint Augustine We shall do
something less than justice to this purely
theological philosophy OF history if we esti-
mate its significance by the scientific value
OF the imperfect inductions on which II was
based IL often appears to have been drawn
from Scriptural texts. under a fanciful and
allegorfc method of biblical exegesis but i,
fact. these texts are simply used as pegs on
which 10 hang the prevailing historical phil
osophy OF the time.
The philosophy of Saint Jerome and Saint
Augustine continued to be in the main the
PHILOSOPHY of the schoolmen. 50 far as they
hal any philosophy Of history at all during
1.-THE middle ages. During these ages the
elements OF human society were ground up
from top to bottom. and the capacity of men
70 think with generality in the sphere Of
human society was almost destroyed by the
plecemeal structure of the feudal system
Tne human race was waiting for new points
OF crystail1zatfon in society and politics.
THESE new points of Capitalization came
with the renaissance, not. indeed, In the first
hush OF the regeneration 1t brought to the
European mind, but in the sober Thought
fulneSs which came over the EuroDean
mind In what We may call the autumn of
the renaissance period 1t was then that the
human race may be said to have orientad
Itself by getting its bearings under universal
history. This process of intellectual orienta-
ton was effected in the seventeenth century
which must forever remain a most interest,"
Ing period for the philosophy of history II
was then that the foundations of universal