New-York tribune., 1906-06-14
OVER 1000 GRADUATED
DIR. BUTLER OFFICIATES.
Degrees Conferred on Many Vel
Knoscn Mem at Columbia.

William Jewett Tucker president of Dartmouth
College: DR. BENJAMIN Ide Wheeler, president OF
the University OF California: Edward Patterson
,usttoe Of the Supreme Court OF the State OF
New York: Joaquin Nabuco, Ambassador OF
Brazil to the United States. all OF whom received
the degree of doctor of laws, and Daniel G
Elliot curator of zoology in the Field Column
bian Museum Chicago and Baron Kanehiro
Takah, surgeon general Of the japanese navy
10 whom the degree OF doctor of science was
awarded The Rev. William Greenough Thayer,
headmaster of ST. Marks School, Southboro
Mass received the honorary degree OF master
Of arts.
Before awarding the degrees DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president OF the university. made
an address TO the graduates, pointing OUT 10
them that the country undergoing sociai
and economic reconstruction. and urging them
10 meet the great questions OF the day with
noise and equilibrium. He held out Abraham
Lincoln as an example
PRESIDENT BUTLER's SPEECH.
DR. Butler said in part
For the American of ambition and education VINO
would use his powers best ADVANTAGE N Cle So
boS o. az In nsT4cson equal in value to the life of
AbrahaTn Lincoln He He SAVED srgyl sess Hau0i
This great company Of graduates goes I ouJ y ~ f
1sT,iciiiarIy important and critical time Unless an
signs fail. entering upon peTloa ~
Io1 i1 spiTf OF unrest is abroad. not only in our
own iana psa b II a. ONE intliectual foundation it ap
Tears 10 he the conviction that the eighteenth cen
furv formulas and aXioms upon when our soClal
and political fabric is so largely built 90 n9t iS ~UrH @
they were expected 70 w3Ih 80 iaI anneaTs 10 be
dissatisfaction with actual and possible rewards lI
appeaTs to be perception Of easily demonstrated
INEQUALITIES Of power snS neoSatv Of benefits
That this unrest has been and is being used by by
ambitious men Tor their selfish ends and ior
gain by journalistic builders of emotional oonlres
spirit Of unrest with sneer on that account. II
anS tLiej0nares tie violent minded and the natur-
silv destructive. Men accustomed TO honest refec-
~ infiuence Policies that not long ago dis
missed a. TOO extreme Tor serious discussion are
now sobery examined with reference 10 tnelr I'M
mediate practcablity. What has brought about
IN aTsAsr IS not far 10 seek. An increasing num-
Der Of men have come 10 oistrust the csPaclly OF
society as now organized TO protect itself against
Ier II men 5dllsye and assert that law and Justice
poweIless before greco ahG cunlIs' anu ~. tieS @
~ rr3ste relief Their inagnations too.
1 90 bI5 e afIected by The appalling sight. so
often called attention OF late. OF that nortil
noreue wherein are exposed tht shrlveiied SOUS "a;
and ruined regulations of those who have lost IN
The never ending struggle between selnshness ana
Tie FIRST duty of the trained and educated mind
,aEe defnite and responsible attitude toward
them, is not To lose its balance us polse us set
,..--,ir-i-,iC, n Trincipes and men II there
80 gerception Of where the difficulty lies and of
Z-bat n IS that Is to bs remedied. first step.
then is analys Of the conditions conpIalae59 5
upon their genesis. for most rebuilders OF society
.I+ Fis hoes not often Carry them to the
point Of considering our present institutions
having the weight Of years and human experience
That our society has its evils terrible and dan
gerous be denied But it is quite too rash q
and its cornerstone displaced before those evils can
St me 5ofv Is ot SO much with the tried and
tested principles upon which society rests as with
e honesty ana e WIN wnen rnsner4t o our
Ia I ith 5 its untold oDn6rtu5ites for material
success l0osenuE of the hold Of some Of the old
religious and ethical sanctions Of conduct, and the
united 10 place upon American character q burden
which n 100 many instances it has not been able
It i our own individual characters that. are at
fault and not the rtitutions whose upbuilding is
The work Of The ages Sound and upright individual
human characters win uplift society far more
islative nostrum or the following Of any economic
,re5 5l % ~ "a rEn, I Tey"IcaI % +t aCLS
Given an acute perception Of the difference between
appreciation Of the solemn obligations Of trust
9nr social "a ana political system would perhaps, be
.ouna re Work eqruably and well Without these
traits 70 system is workable. Moral regeneration.
W. chiefly need Is "ii"'
THREE THOUSAND PERSONS PRESENT.
Eleven hundred and thrty-six students re-
ceiNed degrees at The exercises yesterday This
IS The largest number ever graduated by Co.
4uinhia. Together with their relatives and
friends. they taxed the gymnasium to its utter
lnost capacity, and when President Butler finally
ascended 10 the platform there were al least
Three thousand persons present. At 10 o'clock
yesterday morning the candidates for degrees
assembled at the library. and, together with the
faculty paraacd across the campus to the GYM
nas.1'a. The senior class in the arts course
IS liL Its HrtSiippT
Jed The procession. While The orchestra Of the
university Philharmonic Society played a selec-
Ton from Carmen" The candidates, Columbia
youths Barnard girls and Teachers College
graduates walked slowly up and took their
places in The front seats. Last of all came tb.
faculty, some Of them in the scarlet Of oxford
and most Of them with the purple or orange
doctors hoods and took their places on the plat
form.
me class of 1881 also attended in body and
had their seats with the faculty. The exercises
began with prayer 10y the Rev DR.. George r
an o. Water, former chaplain Of the univer-
SIT.
Among those who had accepted invitations TO
be present were Professor Elmer N. Brown Of
t'e University Of California; William B. Cohen
Jean 4 Church, Augustus S. Downing Third
Assistant Commissioner Of Education; Dr. John
Il Finley, president OF the College Of the CITY
of New York; Theodore N Iozier. Francisco
Garcia Pereira Leao. Vice-Consul Of Brazil in
ms city DR.. 81. Clair McKelway Dean Polk, Of
lie Cornell Medical School; Sir Percy Sanderson.
Justice Morgan J. O'Brien. Lieutenant Colonel
Achilles Pederneiras, Of the Brazilian Embassy;
Edward " stitt, l. y. Phelps Stokes and VIII
lam Rhineander Stewart
CoNFERRING OF DEGREES
After The address President Butler conferred
the degrees. DR.. Elliot WAS presented by Pro-
lessor Henry F. Osborn, who spoke of DR. Elliot
work as a naturalist and scientist Professor