Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-13
| Mr.. BONAPARTE TALKS
Addresses Law Graduates of
Georgetown University.
LARGE CROWD PRESENT
DEGREES CONFERRED ON A NUM-
Der OF CANDIDATES.
Opening Address by Rev. Jerome
Daugherty, S. J.-Program of
Exercises a Pleasing One.

A brilliant audience filed CASTOR Hall
last evening to witness the closing exer-
cises of Georgetown University Law School
Every available seat was taken and hun
dreds who could not gain admission were
turned away. Ninety disciples of Black
stone and Kent were given their sheepskins
seventy-two receiving the degree of bach
elor of laws and eighteen the degree of
master of laws. Charles Jerome Bona
parte of Baltimore. the new Secretary of
the Navy. delivered notable address to
the graduates and held the attention of
the audience for an hour while he dis
cussed eloquently and forcefully the theme,
"Americanism and Patriotism" Prizes for
excellence in different branches of research
and study were awarded by Chief Justice
Seth Shepard of the Court of Appeals.
The evenings program opened with the
Yankee Consul and THE Diplomat and
other selections by Haley's Orchestra. The
opening address was made by Rev Jerome
Daugherty, S. j., president of the univer-
sity. Father Daugherty paid a glowing
tribute to the memory of the late Justice
Charles c. Cole, who was connected with
the university faculty before his death He
praised the virtues and traits of the de-
ceased jurist and referred to the institu-
tons irreparable loss when he passed from
the scene of earths activities.
The degrees were conferred by President
Daugherty upon the various graduates VINO
came forward singly, amid prolonged out
bursts of applause, TO receive their uipio-
mas.
After comforting the degrees and the
strains of Wagner's Evening Star atid
died away, Chief Justice Clabaugh OF the
Supreme Court of the District, member
of the faculty, stepped to the front of the
platform and introduced Mr.. Charles j;
Bonaparte as "a distinguished citizen CT
Maryland who is about to become the prop
erty of the United States"
Deafening college yells followed by the
name ''Bonaparte!" greeted Mr.. Bonaparte
as he arose to commence his address, and
fully five minutes elapsed before quiet was
restored and the speaker could proceed,
The subject of his address was American
ism and Patriotism.
He spoke in part follows:
II have always thought that one 1nViteo
to speak on an occasion such as TINS Snouiu
try to make a fair return for the compil-
ment by saving something worth hearing;
II is much easier. however. to lay down
this principle than to act upon IT, we nave
excellent authority for the proposition tnat
there is nothing new under the sum- put no
one can so thoroughly realize its truth as
speaker sufficiently presumptuouS TO ann at
telling his audience what has not peen
often and better told already. l have then
some claim to your indulgence II llmlt
myself this evening to two topics which. If
in no wise novel. can hardly fall TO nave
interest for young Americans, and first OF
ALL If l try to tell you what you are anu
why YOU are not something else, or. IN
other words, to give you the meaning of
American"
There is the greater reason why this
should be done because "American' and
"Americanism" words often and grave
ly abused In many cases, it Is true, the
misuse of these terms is evidently conscious
and wilful; the words in question however.
are also often used in good faith, but In a
loose and ambiguous sense, and such con-
fused language is at once the fruit and the
source of confused thought. American"
has many and widely different meanings
for political and even religious disputants
among us; in fact. one Of these seems fire.
quently to evolve a meaning for it from his
own inner consciousness or to employ 1t as
a convenient synonym for what he person
ally likes or admires, much as the theolo-
gian who defined Orthodoxy as his 'doxy.
In my trespass on your attention this even
ing shall try first to find for this adjective
its logical and historical meaning and to
determine for what things relations of
things the substantive may be a fitting SYM
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