Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1905-03-01

United States, represented by the
Chief Executive Of the nation, Presi-
dent Roosevelt; Germany, represented
by Baron Won Speek ~Sternberg, am
bassaGor to this country, who acted as
the personal representative Of Emper-
or William, and Sir Henry Mortimer
DuraDd, the British ambassador. The
occasion was marked by Il of the
most enthusiastic demonstrations ever
witnessed in the Academy of Music,
where the exercises were held. Presi-
dent Roosevelt was the orator of the
day, his theme being Some Maxims
of Washington
The degree Of doctor of laws was
conferred upon the President, the Ger
man Emperor, the British ambassador,
Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, United
States navy; United States Senator
Philander c. Knox, and David T. Wat
son, a distinguished lawyer of Pitts
burg. Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the
poet and author, received the degree
Of letters, and upon Robert Simpson
woodward, president Of the Carnegie
Institute, was conferred the degree of
doctor Of science. Baron Won Speck
Sternberg received the degree for En-
perbr William.
When the President appeared on the
stage the band played Hail to the
Chief" and the entire assemblage
arose and cheered for nearly five min
utes. It was a splendid ovation and
she President smiled his appreciation,
bowling his acknowledgment at it's
conclusion.
AS each candidate was presented by
DR.. S. Weir Mitchell for the degree, he
was greeted by the students with lusty
f'hoorays' and college cries. During
his address, the President was repeat
eddy cheered, and his reference to the
navy, which he addressed directly to
Admiral Clark, who sat on his left,
aroused great enthusiasm. The Pres
ldent spoke in part as follows:
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
As a nation we have had our full
share Of great men, but the two men
of pre-eminent greatness who, as the
centuries SO on, will surely loom above
all others, are Washington and Lin
coin; and it is particularly fitting that
their birthdays should be celebrated
every year and the meaning Of their
lives brought home close to us.
No other city in the country is so
closely identified with Washington's
career as Philadelphia. He served here
in 1875 in the Continental Congress.
He was here as commander of the army
at the time Of the battle of Brandy
wine and Germantown; and it was near
here that with that army he faced the
'desolate winter at Valley Forge, the
winter which marked the turning point
of the Revolutionary war. Here he
came again az president of the con-
vention which framed the constitution
and then as President Of the United
States, and finally as lieutenant general
Of the army, after he had retired from
the presidency.
Gs1e hundred Gnd eight years ago
just before he left the presidency, he
issued his farewell address, and in it
he laid down certain principles, which
he believed should guide the citizens
Of this republic for all time to come,
his cwn words being, (which appear
to ne all-important to the permanency
Of our felicity as a people"
Washington, though in some ways an
even greater man than Lincoln, did not
have L~incoln's wonderful gift OF ex-
p~ressjon-that gift which makes Ger
tain speeches OF the ~rail-splitter from
Illinois read like the inspired utter
ances CT the great Hebrew seers and
prophets. But he had all Of Lincoln's
sound common sense, far-sightedness,
and devotion to a lofty ideal. Like
Lincoln, he sought after them by thor
oughly practical methods. These two
greatest Americans can fairly be called
the best among the great men OF the
world, and greatest among the good
me OF the world. Each showed in
actual practice his capacity to secure
under our system the priceless union
of individual liberty with governmental
strength. Each was as free from the
vices of the tyrant as from the vices
of the de1nagogue. To each the empty
futility Of the mere doctrinaire was as
alien as the baseness Of the merely
self-seeling politician. Each was in
capable alike of the w~ickedness which
seeks by force Of arms to wrong others
and of the nc less criminal weakness
which fails to provide effectively
against being wronged by others.
Among Wa5hington's maxims which
he bequeathed to his c%ountrymen were
the two following: "Observe good faith
and Justice toward all nations" and
"To be prepared for war is the most
effective mean to promote peace
These two principles taken together
should form the basis Of our whole for
eign policy. Neither is sufficient taken
by itself. 1t is not merely an idle
dream, but q most miscellaneous dream,
to believe that mere refraining from
wrongdojng will insure Us against being
wronged. Yet, on the other hand, a
nation prepared for war is a menace to
mankind unless the national purpose
is to treat other nations with good
faith and justice.
FROM DIR. HOHENZOLLERN.
cdr. Charles C. Harrison, Provost OF
the University OF Philadelphia, Phil
aGelphia:
81 am truly glad that the University
has rendered me at the same time with
President Roosevelt the academic honor
that once clothed George Washington.
I beg you to accept with my thanks
my best wishes for the continued
growth and prosperity of the Univer-
Gity. |
WILHELM. l. R."