The Washington times., 1901-12-28
RECEPTION TO THE
GRADUATE CLUBS.
DISTINGUISHED MEN ATTENDED.
Delegates TO Convention Held Two
Sessions Yesterday i'm Column
bian Univcrsity-One
for To-day.

A reception was given last evening TO
{ the delegates attending The seventh an
nual convention Of the Federation of Uni
versity Graduate Clubs. By the Dean Of
the Columbian Graduate School, DR..
Charles Edward Munrce.
A number Of prominent persons were
present. among whom were the German
Ambassador, the Persian Minister the
Turkish Minister. Minister WI Ting
fang, Admiral and Mrs Terry, Captain
and Miss Sigsbee. Captain Proctor. L. s.
~ and his sens; Prof. waleott. Of the
Geological Survey; Dr.. Wiley, Of the Geo
logical Survey. and Mr. Langley, of the
Census Office. The receiving party in
cluded DR.. and Mrs. Munrce, DR.. and Mrs.
Chatard. Mr.. and Mrs Hopkins, and DR..
and Mrs Moore.
Yesterday Mornings Session.
The convention Of the Federation of
Graduate Clubs opened at the School of
Law and Jurisprudence yesterday morn
ing. when addresses OF welcome we're
made by Dr. Samuel II. Greene, acting
president of the Columbian University.
( and DR.. Charles Moore. president Of the
Columbian Graduate Club. DIR. Moore,
after welcoming the delegates to WASH
ington and impressing upon them the
amount and variety of riches that await
the graduate student in Washington, said
in part:
The recent gift of Mr.. Carnegie OF s1O,-
OO0.OCo to endow postgraduate education
in Washington is only one of many such
movements. The Methodsts have raised
several million dollars to promote higher
education in the District. The Secretary
OF War has just founded a school for the
higher training OF the engineer officers.
who represent the first fourth OF each
graduating class at West Point. and to
7 this is 10 De added a war college, Tot
the pogt- graduate instruction OF army Of
icers generally. Ii is with no sense OF
exclusive propTietorship on our part that
we call your attention 10 this embarrass
ment OF riches.
They are yours. Indeed, the entire
District OF Columbia is yours rather than
ours. Those of you who are voters elect
our Legislators and councilmen. We. IN
less we happen to be so fortunate as TO
be able to maintain a residence elsewhere,
live and move and have our being poll
tically at the mercy or by the grace Of
The people of the United States.
I'VE want you to visit the White House
where lives the post graduate par excel
lence The youngest President this ma
tion has ever known, he has been in pub
lie life more fifth OF century. Strenu-
Gus in his studies as in his sports, he
stands today as the highest type OF the
educated rnen OF America. Learn you
from him the lesson most needed in the
colleges of this country today-that the
vast and complicated machine which we
call the Government of the United States
is run by men Of conscience, OF ability.
and Of intelligence"
Organization Is FIourishing.
A fourishing condition of the organiza-
tion was shown in the annual reports OF
the officers, and a general discussion fol-
lowed the report of catalogue Of these
subjects by Miss Elizabeth R. Laird, of
Bryn Mawr College. Pennsylvania.
James II. Patten, OF Harvard Univer-
sity, suggested that there should be
national magazine" TO be devoted en-
tlrely to college work. The general dis
cusgion which followed this report
showed that the entire convention was in
favor of the establishment OF such a
paper.
Al different times yesterday the mem
bers visited Cabin John Bridge and other
poiuts about the District
Before the reception last night many of
the delegates visited the Congressional
Library.
The following delegates, all OF whom
are present at the convention, are candi-
dates for the higher degrees Of Pm. u. and
A. NJ. at the colleges they represent:
Clarence A. Lester, OF the department Of
political science. Brown University; Henry
=. Wright, classics, Yale; Miss Jessie "
Gates. mathematics. Yale; Joseph II. Pat
ten. political science. Harvard; Miss Car
oline b. Boarlard. romance languages,
Bryn Mawr; Miss Henrietta Z. McIntire
romance languages, Radcline; Miss Mari
anna woodruff. comparative Literature,
Columbia College, New York; Miss Ella
f. Beyson, classics, Columbia College,
New York: Miss Jennie Green. classics,
University Of Missouri; Z. =. Hender.
chemistry. New York University; Miss
Harriet Richardson, zoology. Columbian
University; Miss Margerethe infahl.
Bryn Mawr; Percival Hare, mathematics,
Columbian University; Frank L. Damer,
chemistry. Dickinson; J. Porter and ]. NJ
Sterrett philosophy, Columbian.
At the conclusion OF several unimport
ant business matters, the convention will
close tomorrow.