New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-20

Never before has genius of learning en'oTs se
general rise in the level of intelligence mas ST, The
the scholar an almost ba mnearned have disap
peared. and the reading citizen waits up'i
You and the young whom you are dsTd of
be potent factors IN aeetng ~ the ethics of
public life. The knowledge acquired conaned 10 the
Of learning can not and VIII no1 Dg enas we
educating men for humanity and the iII largely
denend upon the measure of your ambition '''
them
Allan p. A. Pradiey. president OF the seiiio'
class speaking for the students OF me uiii'
sity, said in part:
with the exception Of rowing none "a "a II These
ooD he 1rovided only by buying field as nesI me me
time we must be on the alert TO keep our
sports free from any talnt OF Is wanted on a
Ss nTbs team who is not full of it.bnt CouD s
athletics must COZ we must prefer 10 lose honor.
f,v n need be- rather than 10 win at the oos' Va
sels-respect.
President Eliot Of Harvard University MAJ
or address saving that the choice OF las man
o. ...a,;aa,+ Of Columbia accorded with the
-,~ac,ioe Of the majority Of the larger American
universities and continuing in part
1t,s rletn that the future prosperity and progress
az modern communities is hereafter gong 10 or ~
r1T1s 81 highly trained which constitute wa
are called the professions. Inc ;nsuennes which
etrengthen and uplift modern society are no ioie
in the hands Of egislature5 or aepnces are be-
coming secondary and subordinate innnellees ,iat
neither originate lead; they sometimes I in
and set bounds. and often imPede Inc reaI ia l
MENTIONS and motive powers when bodies Of
well trained alert ard progressive men Known i a
or i;nagfninrs of genius An the large businesses
and enterprises depend for their '-
Columbia University situated in this great city
Is sure 70 Sica sodeTy because it has planned
and is planning provide the best possinie, pro
iected and ambitious youth.
President Hadley of Yale declared that every
university in the civilized world felt pr1de IN
what Columbia had done for science and educa-
ton He said in closing:
cannot close these greetings from Yale to co,
Who is lust taking up the duties Of leadership
from one who has exercised those duties pLI d
, grown up together. We have mingled in the same
controversies sometimes as opPone9's, ngt her the
RESPONSIBILITIES of the lecturer and the journasc
position Of trust ' hope that it will much
20 you il does To me TO have associates WILL VA
stand-men whose occasional differences VIII pe
whose habtual co-operation will be rendered
doubly effective by the assurance which such
friendship gives. Our companionship IN the LWentE
years which past gives us the best harhinseT
of the continuance of that compromising IN llle
twenty years which are 10 come; and am luIx
confident that day. when We in our turn shaIi
Of union between different universities of the
land more closely knit together bv mutual conf
country of science and of Gods truth
PRESIDENT BUFFERS ADDRESS.
Following President Hadley. addresses were
made by President Patton of Princeton Uni
versity President Harper of Chicago University
and William p. Harris. the United States Com
missioner Of Education Then. amid an up
roarious greeting President Butler faced the
audience. When the applause had subsided he
said in part
The shifting panorama Of the centuries reveals
three separate and underlying forces which SHAPE
and direct the higher civilization. Two of these
have spiritual chsraosr and one appears TO be
may one day show that they all spring from a
Church the State and science. or better, scholar
ship To-Day in the opening cenmry the e;, pn7
land. not least in own, the bearer of ira
life would be barren and the remaining prin-
eples which gndeTe cIVizaon T16ped v OF hd b
to turn back the hands upon the dial OF history
every forward movement that we research.
industry commerce. the liberal and PRACTICAL arts
free and yitalizing energy in every field OF
The university is concerned with the promotion
of the true scholarship 1t asks It in its scholars
learn 1t believes that the languages. the lit
eratureS. the art the science and the INSTITUTIONS
of those historic peoples who have succeSslVelE
occupied the centre Of the stage which the great
human drama is being acted out are full or sig
nifcance for the world OF to-day: and II asks that
fields Of inquiry Of professional study or or prac-
teal application. shall have come TO know some,
thing of all this in an earlier period OF general
and liberal studies.
But a university is not for scholarship alone. In
these modern days the university is not apart from
the activities of the world. but in them and of
them. 1t deals with real problems and il relates
itself TO life il is. The university is for both
scholarship and service. and herein lies that ethf-
SON. bound by its very nature TO the service OF
others. To fulfil its high calling the university
must give and give freely, to its students. TO the
world Of learning and Of scholarship, TO the deve-
cpment Of trade, commerce and industry. to the
community in which II has its home, and to the
State and nation whose foster child II Is. uni
of its importance The university's service is
to-day far greater far more expensive and in ways
Tar more numerous than ever before. II has only
lately learned TO and hence it has only lately
learned the possibilities that lie open before it
What the future development of the great uniyer-
sites is TO be perhaps no one can foresee. But
Of its size or wealth position aims to be a
centre of enlightenment and true world capital
must be the home of great university
Scholarship and service the true university
ideal. The university of to-day is the home of
lost causes and forsaken beliefs. and unpopular
names, and impossible Royalties" 1t keeps step
with growing knowledge, and among democratic
people seeks only to instruct, uplift and to
serve in order that the of religion and learn
ing and Of human freedom and opportunity may be
continually advanced from century to century and
from age TO age.
After President Butler ended his inaugural
address the audience rose and Joined in the sing
Ing of the hymn. MY Country, It's Of Thee"
and Bishop Potter closed the ceremonies with
hens