Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-04-03
Secretary D. ]. Hill Addresses Chi
cago University Students.
RELATIONS TO new TERRITORIES
Dr.. Harper Presents Statements
Regarding Institutions Finances.
NEW DEGREE NTED

| cagO yesterday.
| President Harper delivered his quarterly
| statement telling of the S2JOOOO which had
been raised since January 1, thereby full
| filling the agreement which secures to the
| university the $2,OOOOoO pledged by John D.
/ Rockefeller on condition that the university
l raise like amount
| A feature of peculiar interest was the
| granting of the degree of associate to fif-
| teen freshman and sophomore students.
| The degree was only recently established.
| This innovation in the granting of degrees,
| mentioned by President Harper to the pres
| idents of fourteen different colleges at their
| recent meeting in Chicago, is expected to
AFFECT not only colleges the country over,
| but high schools as we'll The idea was
| applauded by all but Harvard. Its purpose
| is to get men into what is practically grad
| uate work in the last two years before re-
ceiving the traditional bachelors degree. or
| to start them Immediately in professional
schools.
DR.. Hills Remarks.
DIR. Hill said in part: LAS If awakened
| from marvellous dream to find itself in the
presence of a more wonderful reality the
| United States emerges from it's war with
| Spain to discover that it has suddenly be-
come one of the greatest oceanic powers
of the world. holding on the west Tutuila,
| the finest port in the southern Pacific; the
Hawaiian Islands. Guam and the Philippine
archipelago while its continental coast line
of more than 5000 miles occupies nearly
oDe-fourth of the entire Pacific water front.
No longer a struggling federatio of
| small commemorative scattered along the
Atlantic seal board. but great and powerful
nation, commanding the breadth of the
continent and ruling distant islands, what
Is to be the part of the United States in
these great movements which changing
the political and moral geography of the
world? VIII it follow the counsel of those
who oppose the extension of American SOW
ereignty beyond the confines of the conti-
nent and who demand that flag be
| lowered before the standard of self-con-
stituted chieftains. imagined to embody the
sovereignty of a people because they have
inf1amed with Instruction a single of
eighty-four native tribes never recognized
as a state. not even constituting a nation.
and wholly devoid of public responsibility?
Treaty of Paris Not n Bargain Trade.
when the public archives have told their
whole story it will appear that the treaty
of Paris was not bargain in the interest
of trade but the charter of liberty for
twelve millions of human beings gathered
under the protecting folds of flag able to
defend them from foreign aggression and
domestic anarchy.
The one conceivable opportunity for the
free development of sef-government in the
Philippine archipelago so far as that may
be possible. was secured when the soVer-
eighty over those islands passed from Spain
to the United States. In the name OF Just
administration, in the name of international
tranquility and in the name of seif-gov-
eminent itself the United States cannot
lower its flag wherever it has been raised
until anarchy has been suppressed, public
order established and the world convinced
that our President expressed the real pur-
pose of the American people when he sent
forth his Philippine commissioners as bear
ers of the good will. the protection and the
richest blessings of liberating rather than
a conquering nation
The advocates of little America as OPP
posed to greater America have sought to
inspire the conviction that our recent de-
velopment is the fruit of political material
ism-a reputation Of those great ideas
which animated the founders of this ma
ton. Deriving their standard of national
morality from the cloister. they find the
path of duty in perpetual isolation, and pro-
claim the doctrine that the material and
moral expansion of the country are contra
dictory and Incompatible. But all expe-
rience teaches that the Improvement of ma
tional character is not to be sought by
pious contemplation of ones virtues in
mouastic cell, but wrung from the stern
issues of life by conscientious effort in the
great field of activity: for nations. like
men. become strong and great only by
mastering manfully their divinely appointed
tasks.
Expansion Must Carry Americanism.
ANY form of expansion which does not
include the extension and diffusion of that
which characteriZes our deeper and purer
national life, that which we are proud to
call our 'Americanism,' is not worthy of the
energies and the ambition of the American
people. What. then, is that Americanism
which we cannot abandon or disregard
without casting into the sea the precious
pearl of our national inheritance?
1T Is the principle that no form of civil
polity is tolerable which does not permit
and encourage the most free and unre-
strained development and exercise of all
those mental and moral faculties and ener-
gieS which give force and value to the in
dividual man; the idea of a free, generous
and harmonious cooperation Of man with
man. of institution with institution, of party
with party and Of commonwealth with COM
monwealth In the promotion of general
prosperity, without regard to class, creed.
section or racial origin, reverence for
into the law of the land, made operative
by the combined force of society, and sus-
tained by the glad and willing obedience of
all it's members Liberty is sweet but it Is
not the whole secret Of our national de-
velopment. Fraternity is noble, but 1t is
not the only bond of our civic conference.
Deeper than both liberty and fraternity lies
the sublime conception Of an imperative
moral order, which is not merely the fertile
source of personal rights, but the COM
pellng force of individual and national du-
ties.
Benefcent Phase of Commerce.
we sometimes speak Oh commerce as II
it were essentially sordid and selfish, lbut
We must not overlook Its benehcent infiu-
ence. Appealing to solemn treaties which
have opened to the American people the
trade of the vast empire of Chna-appar-
entity on the point of being imperiled by ex-
elusive policies-in order to maintain equal
rights for the traders and manufac turers
of the United States. the President has in
yited the nations. through his distinguished
Secretary of State. to give assurance that
the open door shall not be closed against
us. Recognizing the rights Of the American
people as q great pacific power, England
Russia, Germany, France. Italy and japan
have responded in that just and friendly
spirit which we had reason to expect from
them. and in a body Of diplomatic CORE
spondence recently offered to the public
these powers have collectively guaranteed
to the United States that fair and equal
treatment which equity demands.
And this new era of this world wide COM
merce which is now about to dawn Is only
the natural sequence of our continental de-
velopment. the fulfillment of early tenden- !
cies and prophecies. with ample territory.
and coveting the land of no other nations
with inexhaustiole treasures of coal, iron
and timber, with industries capable of sup-
plying the markets of the world midway
between the Atlantic and the Pacific In /