New-York tribune., 1903-06-11
C0LUNBIA'S GREAT DAY.
GETS GIFTS OF $500, 900.
<t 10th Commencement S54 St2-
dents ReceiUe Degrees.

Graduating S54 students. honoring itself in
recognizing hono,ed men and announcing gifts
of S3990ae. Columbia celebrated its commence
r1-e-1t yesterday with dignity and fitness in ac-
CORD with its hish position amcng American
universities. FioWe-ins rose bushes carpets of
green. and stately buildings made a seemly back
ground for the long academic procession CT over
twelve hundred that wound its way across the
campus yesterday morning for TIE 10th com
Tnenceue-t of the metropolitan institution of
learning which had its beginning when George
III was King. L WAS a gay procession rang
ing in color from the seniors soInbre black TO
the bright hues Of the garments OF the prominent
professors and guests resplendent in many
colored hoods and stoles.
First came the graduating classes, and then
far in the rear the guests about 70 receive de-
grees, honoris causa. With Governor Odell.
Peter Cooper Hewitt. Jules Jusserand John B.
Cauldwell and George A. Gordon, statesman
ship. science letters. art ard religion were the
professions in which Columbia especially chose
its men for honors yesterday.
The morning marked the solemn and stately
exercises Of commencement; the afternoon the
announcement by President Butler Of gifts OF
S5G00o0 MarceIirs Hartley Dodge, grandson of
The late MarceIus Hartley and president Of the
college seniors and his aunt. Mrs. Helen Hartley
Jenkins said DR. Butler. had given 100000 for
the erection. as soon as possible, OF a modern
6ornlitory close by Columbia. Another Sloo.eo0,
he announ, ed had been given by General Hor-
ace w Carpenter Of the class of '4S, for the
Columbia Law School. and still another S1o0,0eo
for the Columbia College Of Physicians and Sur
geons.
In the evening dignity was cast away and
good cheer held sway. when ten classes from
'93 TO 'N3, held anniversary dinners in Uni
ard +1-ah
men gathered in Alumni Memorial Hall for pipe
and song and speeches by Van Am" dean Of
the college. and 'Prexy'' Butler.
PRESIDENT BUTLER's ADVICE.
When the long. bright colored procession had
filed into the gymnasium, to the air Of march
from -Tannhauser" rendered by the Columbia
Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction Of
Gustav Binrichs, formerly conductor of the
Metropolitan Opera House orchestra, George r.
Van De Water, chaplain of the university, said
prayer. followed by an address TO the gradu-
ating class by President Nicholas Murray But
ler The president made a plea for a sane.
healthy view Of life. and the avoidance of any
tendency toward pessimism cynicism. He
said in part:
Let me lay stress for a moment or two upon the
approached. There is feel sure. neither happiness
nor usefulness TO be d0gaG IN b4 T gboa Ro
feel that the educated youth Of land apt TO
hold themselves aloof from popular interests AID
movements, and view from side, from
above. the active life OF democracy. This i'm
preston is not, ! think, just all events II
is certainly less well founded than ever be
fore but such foundation ii has should be rudely
from by your efforts and by your careers.
If education and training are unfit
tally for sympathetic participation in the every
day life Of the nation then the less Of education
and training that we have the better In that case
we are starving the soul TO feed the mind
would rather have this great company OF stu
dents face the world with cheerfulness and hope.
and with complete honesty. than endowed IN any
other way. You so out to-day from under the
sl,adoyy II great tradition. For nearly century
and = half il has been slowly forming Lives with
on number been built into it. The years have
~-oz-led il with power and with beauty It is a
branch Of something far older, that runs back till
II loses itself in the beginnings of things. 1t marks
ne rise and dominance OF the human spirit. Here
--c1 have come under its influence; here you have
caught something O meaning May YOU each
II hs own way Ee bearer of the tradition which
YOU have come 10 know