New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-20
ROOSEVELT PRAISES LOW
PRESIDENT BUTLER GUEST OF HONOR
AT ALUMNI DINNER.
OTHER SPEAKERS ARE MAYOR LOW JUS
TICE BARTLETT AND PRESIDENTS
PRITCHETT AND ALDERMAN

TlCE BARTLETT AMI
PRITcHETT AND ALDERMAN.
Cheering loudly smiling almost conthuousiS'
and eating when they could conveniently do So
six hundred Columbia students, oid' feoluiii
aged and Young greeted at Sherry's last night
the President of the United States. The great
hall framed In blue and white and the paru-
colored hammers of many universities, resouhoed
with a resonant greeting for which New 10TH
students are famous. The President was III MS
happiest mood. On his right was Ut pu'i''
who a few hours earlier was Installed as heau
of Columbia and in whose honor the dinner lasl
night was given. On President Rooseveits ieh'
sat Professor Van Amringe. dean of the uni
versity and one of the strikingly popular Iiiei
at the dinner. who acted as postmaster.
When. toward 10 o'clock, Professor Van Am
ringe called on President Roosevelt to speak
storm of cheers and rattle of hand clippings
hurst forth and continued steadily until the
President was permitted to frame his first SEN
tence. Then he said:
What am going to say tonight will be based
on the Altogether admirable address made this
atsT9eSp a 6 tRe s G Ga end When he Of
what the university could contribute 10 the s oy
limited number Of men in any college eoHha n an
versitV should bend its energies to develop the few
men who have the ability 10 add 10 tle ndlio ~
,mnHrtanf doctrine to teach is that one piece of
first rate work is worth thoHSana PeeSd nv the
few masterpieces performed by their men ana n"1
! for the line Of pretty good work whch theif Aie
I do not want to speak much about the scholas-
tic side of university life as that side Whlch pro
duces service TO the nation. Not one man IN a
hundred is fit to be in the highest sense "a, pro DO
decent work if they take the pains. If we think we
can DO w9rk Wei WE are incned to be
pessinistic over the political affairs of the United
the last twenty years Of Mayor Lows life. His
during that period a2s 5efn for an wee
president of your university. and now Mayor OF
BE to himself and credtable to all: His cleo
ton big mark on the credit side ~, AMI
side His mark went a long way toward making
Intellect must stand below character in value
to a man. It is good thing TO have SOUND body:
s Is letter to hans that group Of decent and vrie
qualities which sum up as character II man
is strong in mind and body but misuses that thai
strength, he becomes foe to the body polite ana
should be hunted down by all decent men: II ne ne
is nice man. but doesn't count you cant 90
much with him. In the battle Of life. as IN me
Civil War. the soldier whose tendency is TO run
away finds his usefulness impaired In the STRIFE
civic betterment there is small use Tor the man
must be honest and coura geous. The timid good
man availeth little. He must have common sense
those who without his desire TO do right know
only too well how TO make the wrong enecewe: Won,
to pay back to the nation some of the dement's
for works SAKE Never think of the fee. The
who the best work does it because he is drawn
to it by an Irresistible power.
Other speakers and their subjects were: Co
lumbia University and the City" Mayor Low.
class of 20: Alumni of Columbia Justice
Willard Bartlett: Letters" Albert Shaw: Sci
ence" Henry Smith Pritchett president of Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology: "Educa-
ton" Edwin A. Alderman. president Of Tulane
University. and Columbia University" Nicho
las Murray Butler, class of 80.
Among those present were Ambassador Won
Holleben Corporation Counsel George L. Rives,
Presidents Eliot of Harvard, Hadley Of Yale.
Tucker of Dartmouth, Andrews of the Cniver-
sity of Nebraska Faunce of Brown. Patton of
Princeton. Remsen of Johns Hopkins and
Schurman of Cornell Postmaster General Henry
c. Payne. T. Guilford Smith. William T. Harris,
United States Commissioner of Education; r..
Fulton Cutting. Albert Shaw, Norris X Jesup.
J. c. Brown, the Right Rev. T. J. Conaty. Colo
nei Mills the Rev. DR.. Vincent. David ].
Hill Assistant Secretary of State: Governor
Francis of Missouri and E. E. Olcott.