Evening star., 1896-10-22
IN ALEXANDER HALL
The l5Oth Anniversary Of Prince
toms Birth Celebrated.
PRESIDENT PATTON'S DECLARATION
President Cleveland Declined the
Degree of LID.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC SCENE

PRINCETON. N. j.. October 22-Fair
weather again favored Princeton today and
made the exercises of the sesqui-centen-
| nial anniversary day doubly enjoyable
The presence of the President of the United
States had the effect of increasing the
already large crowd in town, and Alex
ander Hail. in which the ceremonies of
the day were held, was packed almost TO
suffocation when the Rev. Dr. Theodore
L. Cuyler of Brooklyn began the exercises
with simple. heartfelt prayer for the con-
tinuation to Princeton University of the
prosperity 1t had enjoyed under the title
of the College of New Jersey.
Prior to the beginning of the celebration
the Philadelphia City Troop assembled at
the home of President Patton, where Presi-
dent Cleveland had been a guest over night,
and escorted the head of the nation on
foot through the university grounds to
Alexander Hall Mrs. Cleveland was driven
In an open carriage under the escort of
Mrs. Patton, to the hall. The delegates
representing institutions of learning ALI
over the world, and the faculty assembled
at Marquand Chapel. and clad in tner
academic gowns made their impressive
march to Alexander Hall, preceding Presi-
dent Cleveland. They occupied the same
seats yesterday.
After DIR. Cuylers prayer President Pat
ton made the formal announcement that
what was formerly the College of New
Jersey will henceforth and forever be
known as Princeton University"
A scene OF wonderful enthusiasm greeted
DR.. Pattons remarks. He then announced
the endowment fund received amounting
to nearly million and half dollars, not
including the amounts contributed for
Blair Hall by John l. Blair of B!airstown
N. j., and the new library.
Degree Declined by the President.
The ceremony of comforting the deg ,ees
on the sixty-five men elected for that hoao or
was next on the program 1t was learned
today that President Patton desired 20
confer the degree of doctor of laws upon
Mr. Cleveland, but the President modestly
declined the honor.
The degree of doctor of laws was con-
ferred on long list of distinguished men,
among them being President Angel of the
University OF Pennsylvania, President Gill
man OF Johns Hopkins, Commissioner of
Education Harris, Provost Harrison of the
University of Pennsylvania, S. +. Langley
secretary Of the Smithsonian Institution;
Prof. Joseph LIE Conte of the University Of
California, President Low of Columbia Uni
versity. DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, Prof Simon
Newcomb. Prof. Ira Remsen and Prof
Rowland of Johns Hopkins
The degree of doctor OF divinity was cen
Ierred On the following, among others. Rev
Dr. Morgan Dix, Rev. Moses d. Huge.
Bishop John F. Hurst, Bishop Henry Y.
Satterlee.
The following were honored with the de-
gree of doctor of letters: Henry NJ Eaird.
Richard Watson Glider, Thomas r. Louns-
bury, Francis Andrew March Augustus ST
Gaudens, Horace Z. Scudder, Charles Dud-
ley Warner
Next came the principal evaat of the day
the address by the President of the United
States.
President CIcveInnd's Address.
Mr.. Cleveland said:
Mr.. President and Ladies and Gentlemen.
AS those in different occupatio and with
different training each see most plainly in
the same landscape view those features
which are the most nearly related to their
several habitual environments So in our
contemplation OF an event or occasion,
each individual especially observes and ap-
preciates, in the light his mode of thought
supplies, such of its features and incidents
as are most in harmony with his mental
situation.
Today, while all of Us warmly share the
general enthusiasm and felicitation which
pervade this assemblage. l am sure its yari-
GUS suggestions and meanings assume a
prominence in our respective fields of men
tai vision, dependent upon their relation
to our experience and condition Those
charged with the management and direc-
ton Of the educational advantages of this
noble mob, institution most plainly see. with
well-earned satisfaction, proofs of its
growth and usefulness and its enhanced
opportunities for doing good. The gradu-
| ate OF princeton sees first the evidence of
a greater glory and prestige that nave
come to his alma mater and the added
honor thence reflected upon himself while
those still within her student halls see most
prominently the promise of increased
dignity which awaits their graduation from
Princeton University.
But there are others here, not of the
family of Princeton, who see, with an in
terest not to be outdone, the signs of her
m fha io1d Of hiohn
and the part she has taken during her long
and glorious career in the elevation and
betterment of a great people.
Good Citizenship influence.
Among these take a humble place; and
| as yield to the influences of this OCCASION
1 cannot resist the train of thought which h
| especially reminds me of the promise of
national safety and the guaranty of the
permanence of our free institutions which
may and ought to radiate from the univer-
stiles and colleges scattered throughout our
lard.
Obviously a government resting upon the
| will ard universal suffrage of the people
has no anchorage except in the peoples in
telligence. While the advantages of a col
| legiate education are by no means nects-
sary to good citizenship, yet the college
graduate, found everywhere cannot sraother
| his opportunities to teach his fellow-coun-
trymen and influence them for good, nor
| hide his talents in, a napkin, without recre-
ancy to trust.
In a nation like ours, charged with the
care of numerous and widely varied inter-
| ests, spirit of conservatism and tolera ton
| is absolutely essential. A collegiate train
| ing, Ile study Of principles unvexeo by lis
| tracing and misleading influences, and a
| correct apprehension of the theories upon
| which our republic is established, ought to
| constitute the college graduate a constant
| monitor warning against popular rashness
| and excess
| The character of our institutions and or.
| national self-interest require that feeling
| Of sincere brotherhood and a disposition to
unite in mutual endeavor should pervade
our people Our scheme of government in
| its beginning was based upon this senti-
ment, and its interruption has never failed
and can never fail to gr.evously menace our
| national health. Who can better caution
| against passion and bitterness than those
who know by thought and study their bane-
| full consequences and who are themselves
within the noble brotherhood of higher edu-
cation?
True Mission of Government
| There are natural laws and economic
| truths which command implicit obedience,
and which should unalterably fix the
bounds Of wholesome popular discussion,
and the limits of political strife. The
! Continued on Page Eleven.)