New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-29
DEGREE FOR ARCHBISHOP
CERENONY At COLUMBIA.
DR.. DaJidson Says Bencdiction on
Site for Neac Chapel.

The opening of tho academic year al Columbia
University yesterday was marked by the con-
ferring OF the degree Of Doctor Of Laws on the
Archbishop of Canterbury. Shortly before
?. m the faculty. trustees and students Of
Columbia marched I'm procession from the library
10 the gymnasium where a large audience had
gathered to see the ceremony. President Butler
escorted the Archbishop and Bishop Potter at
the head OF the procession.
Devotional exercises. conducted by the Rev.
Or. George r. Van de Water. preceded an nd
dress Of welcome by Dr. Butler after which
Professor Robert Simpson Woodward gave an
address on Academic Ideals While the ad-
dress academic IN tone. Professor Wood
ward raised laughter occasionally by thrusts like
the following:
Little surprise Is manifested a, the close ju1-
ttessor of n.etapaysics; and it has actually been
sors Of physlcs can dwell in peaceful! activity under
one might infer from the slowness Of legal and
constitutional reforms that laws and constitutions
mysterious way. men are merely experimental ma
terial for the training Of crafty lawyers and
For more Than Z thousand years The gaze Of most
of the past that it has been possible to advance
only by marching backward.
In presenting the Archbishop for the degree
Bishop Potter said:
stood a i IL the h '6 se se was s 4 II aye s
and that b. some northwest passage It found It's
believe. and DR.. Il Plongeon's seven years resi-
denee and inyesiigations IN Central America go
long way 10 prove H. that the movement was not
ss s we are wont 10 say from East to West but
these shores a civilization and a literature older
Than hnythDg that Egypt can disclose
originally civilization dawned upon Eastern or
Western shores IL caught from our Anglo-saSon
ancestors glory that can never die.
President Butler had referred IN his address
of welcome 10 the fact that one Of the first trus-
tees Of Kings College. OF which Columbia was
the successor Archbishop Of Canter-
bury. In conferrins the degree he said:
Right HonoTa6e and Most ReyeTe@d : R2Rd2ll
Primate Of an England and Metropolitan. doctor Of
divinity IN the universities of oxford and st An
drews doctor of laws IN th' UNIVERSITIES ~ 2HLoIc
Museum ro%ernor o. The colleges of charterhouse
and Wellington. successor OF Augustine. Anselm.
Rocket and cranmeT IN the proud s"e or SanGISr-
bury. and OF him who by virtue of his high oilce
was the first named trustee a. Kings College n the
original charter az George IL scholar statesman
and Christian prclate. I glady admit YOU 20 the
degree Of OF laws In this university and con
fer upon you all the rights and privileges that pc
diploma.
The Archbishop in expressing his thanks for
the honor caused some laughter Il am in
way the youngest. and In another way the old
est. in the university" he said Il ask you IN
the latter sense 10 look AT the care have
shown in the charge started a hundred and nifty
years ago" He spoke OF two scrapbooks at his
home in Lambeth which filled with letters
showing the interest his predecessors ad taken
IN the university a hundred years ago. and SAID
lie would strive TO show equal interest. Then
he continued:
We have great problems both sides OF the
water TO solve. / not prepared 10 say mat the
advantage Of results will be on either side lo.day,
al least, the facts that IA solving some OF ine
great problencs particularly education; you, "IllI
Vour great rush. have been able TO settle problems
that In the pes, 4o9 years have not been able
solve. ,,ut..., ao-,,,ry
the world has ever seen. We are on tle tNc IIS
great scientific discoveries: know We are II
new doors 10 be opened and We are 10 ne apie
10 harness the forces OF nature Tor huHlai Hoou'
and names Of men and women are 20 20 uo"h ~
women NAV be here before me to-day. We are
standing the juncture of great oppoT tuhlteS 10.
humanity and knowledge and reel sure Inat
YOU the younger members OF this great UNIVERSITY;
that you will distribute these great discoveries and
benefits freely to humanity.
AT the close OF the Archbshops speech the
students sang a receFsional hymn. and again
the procession was formed, marching from the
gymnasium 10 the site Of the new chapel, east
Of the library building. There, I'm the open air.
the Archbishop conducted the dedication SER
vices on the ground on which will stand the
new; memorial cnapel, to he given to the uni
versity bv a person whose name for the present
Is withheld. The service was I'm the form or a
i,enediction. and excerpt from the Epis-
coUal ritual that provides for such exercise. At
and the Archbishop retired TO President Buffers