New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-06-13
HUGHES WANTS REASON
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| discrimination applied In the direction OF haV-
| ing the right thing done and having all things
| done right.
| Ana therefore it is that we may look with con-
| fdence upon our future because of the extraOr-
! binary development of institutions of learn
| ing where discrimination is taught and where
| the faculty of close observation and the facility
! for reaching sound conclusions is developed and
| trained. We want in connection with all these
| public questions a damper put only upon the
I man who insists on talking without thinking
ana having tilihSS GoHe without REGARD 10 men
| essential justice and merely because il may be
| pointed out thing accomplished.
| With the amplitude Of our provisions for edu-
! cation, with the extraordinary resources Of our
! youth and our higher schools Of all kinds, we
I shall not suffer 50 long as the American people
| remember that everything must proceed IN &C
| cordance with good reasoning. after careful de-
| liberation after discriminating study, and then
| II must be settled matter who stands in the
way Of the great final judgment.
| GOVERNORS MEDICATION OF REASON.
! While in the executive chair it has been my
desire TO- if possible, vindicate the principles Of
! reason as applied 10 public questions, and as
/ distinguished from their improper force When
! l turned deaf 10 those who insisted upon
more spectacular effort and 10 those who insist
/ ed that the end would justify the means ana
! that a certain kind of plain. 1t not vituperatVe
! talk. might be In order. ana a certain sort OF
! fraukncss might be iustifahle / did 50 because
! 1 believed that nothing done in that way would
And when. proceeding at the risk Of making
| mistakes and standing for those things when
| would not stand public discussion on their
/ merits | determined that they should be pre-
sented with such discussion on their merits, and
| having determined that everything should be
| regarded in the light of reason. and without
! other aids am somewhat surprised 10 ma my
| sclf now accused Of executive usurpatiOn.
! TO my mind II Is the duty well as the high
| privilege Of the Executive 70 state his convic-
lions 20 the state and when those convictions
indorsed by the Legislative branch, we don't have
government by executive usurpaton; we have
government 10y public opinion after discussion
And So gentlemen, IN closing these desultory
remarks. ! simply want 10 invite you To continue
in the notable struggle. How often we feel as
though we would like TO go somewhere ana sep
arate ourselves from all these confusing war
ring. fatguing activities OF life! How often
would we seek the seclusion or our hpfarles ana
Consort with the great minds and spirits or the
past forgetful Of the pressure of the problems OF
the present, that we might put ourselves at
ease
But IT is our duty TO go forward and not to
finch no matter what the particular trial may
be. but never to go forward except as we have
counted each step and prepared In the light
OF reason to tell why we took II.
After Mr. Hughes had finished. suggestion
by Dr. Butler. that the Governor might be the
next President wildly cheered by graduates
/ and undergraduates alike. In his speech in tho
/ morning Or. Butler had spoken on the principle
/ Of lynch law and said that the word ought to
/ be extended so as to cover not only summary
acts without warrant Of law. but summary judg-
/ ments without knowledge of the facts.
BUTLER THANKS MR.. HUGHES.
/ In his speech following the Governor, DIR.
Butler said:
want to thank Governor Hughes for saving
/ this state from a lynching. BY his veto of the
so-called two-cent railroad bill he has prevented
tho railroads of the state OF New York from
being lynched. and l believe that that act Is
destined 70 be the beginning of more rational
! period in the development OF public opinion. He
has shown TO the world n man of high place. and
spoken of for other places; a man. say, Of
high place and spoken of for other places, who
was not afraid Of the mob; man who demands
for the citizens Of the state, whether individuals
or corporate interests even handed justice.
Six honorary degrees were conferred besides
that given to the Governor. Henry Fairfield
/ Osborne Da Costa, professor of zoology at CO.
lumbia and Elmer Z. Brown United States
Commissioner OF Education. received the de-
gree Of doctor OF laws; Richard Watson Glider
received the degree of doctor of letters. The
honorary degree of master of arts was conferred
upon the Rev. Hugh McCulloh BiTkhead. rector
of St. Georges Church: John Aaron Browning
and Wilson Farrand, head master of Newark
Academy. The honorary degree of master of
science was conferred upon Charles Gordon
Curtis.
1t exactly II o'clock when the academic
procession marched out of the front door of the
library. From there 1t went across the campus,
down the stairs TO the grove and around to the
north entrance OF the gymnasium, whence the
path lay up the aisle past crowds of waiting
friends to seats that had been reserved in the
front of the auditorium.
ACADEMIC PROCESSION FORMS.
John Brodix. chief marshal. headed the pro-
cesson. Behind him came 11S graduates Of
Columbia College. Next in line seventy
six Barnard girls, their white dresses forming
contrast with the blackness of their academic
costume. They came embryo lawyers. doctors,
druggists, mechanical engineers, miners. archi-
tects. civil engineers. teachers and college pro-
fessors. In all there were about four hundred
women in line and six hundred men. Bringing
UP the rear came the faculty and officers. Some
Of them were young; some old and grizzled;
some wore only a masters hood; others marched
along flashing the brilliant scarlet robe of a
foreign university. At the very end came
President Butler and the guests of honor. The
class of so marched with the faculty and occu-
pied seats the rostrum.
After prayer by the chaplain of the uni
versity Dr. Bdtler delivered the commencement
address to the graduates He said in part:
The mad rush of our contemporary life the
haste to pass on TO something new and moro ex-