New-York tribune., 1907-11-01

Princeton as n guest of the university in the spring
of 1895 lie greatly admired tho university and as
an expression Of his admiration no presented the
dial To Princeton.
The degree of Ii. D. was conferred upon Mr..
Bryce before the faculty and trustees in the
faculty room in Mass IA Hail. in which the Con-
uncutal Congress mot nj the timc OF tho kevolu-
tiou. Andrew Fleming West. dean Of the graduate
school, presented Mr.. Bryce for his degree IN the
following words.
The Right Honorable James Bryce the British
Ambassador % the United States. long and highly
anew as an example Of truest scholarship. Il
luminous teacher or the civil law n leader I'm cdu-
cation. master in the art OF government and an
Terate style and profSund insitht we Welcome
him this home Of American history and add his
SigEatuIG 70 our roll. wheTeon arc written the
tory and the name Of Washington at the begin
nl,iat mn 10 washington, Adams. Jefferson and Madi-
SON thc refuge of Congress in the Revolution. the
telling the good news OF peace concluded with the
mother country We greet in his person mes
ana good viii from beyond mat esscning ocean
whereby today these two Christian peoples are
rather joined than severed.
After this ceremony the academic procession.
headed by Mr. Bryce and Pres dent Wilson.
marched to the suudial. where the presentation
TOOK place before nearly TWO thousand under
graduates and visitors. Mr.. Bryce spoke from
the base OF the dial. lie said:
Mr.. President, ladies and gentlemen l am here
today 10 present 10 you, IN behalf of my old and
valued friend, Sir William Mather this sundiaL
'pniIr, a you k!l4W IS reproduction OF very
GSCitnt gi 9ial "hlcn stands in the quadrangle OF
SSoIpus CAIlsu CoAcSe-a college In which have
rated only by narrow street from 0riel College.
70 winch myself belong. Corpus Christi is cele
Prated for the many hlustrious men it has pro-
duced and which IL produces even down TO our
own time OF whom 1 will only mention two. one
is well known 10 you Dr. Thomas Arnold. who
was scholar Of Corpus Christi and afterward
OF my own college of Orel; and one eminent
scholar VINO IS a dear friend of mine, and who
Is is K4Wn own To- az OF you who pursue classical stud
rate many men whom Corpus Christi has given
in connection with this dial.
You have very properly thought Mr. President
that IL was not necessary 10 unycil the dial be-
cause. after all il is not 1le dial that does the
sun has unveiled himself With a brliance when
beats az we could have desired. You have asked
me 20 offer few remarks. and they must of ne
eeessity be ie" because though the sun. as all
so when We are standing. l need not diate on
some OF you may remember eminent philoso-
pher IN the early part of the nineteenth century
purposes which the sun served in the universe.
dial. and without the sun there would he no sun
dial. That was the theological view of the sun.
Nor need ] dilat9 upon the antiquity Of sundl2Is-
& ne earliest methGd Of mssas4Iring time which,
dial was invented by the Chaldeans. and we may
easily believe him, because it is just the kind of
know from the Scriptures that there
sundiaI IN IetusnleIm n IN the reign OF Ahaz, s,
such progress as he has made without such aid
be remembered and admitted that the sundial IS
not 20 be compared with the more modern in
time. Tho sundial would hardly do for time races
and trottIng matches The supdiai was superseded
by which they limited the length Of the speeches
delivered by the plaintiff and defendant In Eng
land, where We are often not privileged TO the
sun for many days at time in the House
tive contrvance. but which is in keeping with our
conservatism; 1t is used to mark when a division
Is called ana Wnen DIVISION is taken i nOtlCe
that in Congress you adopt method Of enabling
which would not be possible if you had to depend
on the sun. Some one goes and ostentatously
touches the hands OF the clock. You could not get
the sun to 20 hack on his dial.
Nor need | dilate on the moral lessons which our
ancestors used to draw from the sundial. They
were lessons Of a very sombre character-not much
time and the necessity Of using it. I remember
iage fjst oxford"Perignt item pGtanur But Of
course that is an idea which the constant passage
of the shadows naturally suggests to that
every hour OF sunshine is to be used and IT is .
ms in the later hours Of life, when we think Of
the many hours which we might have spent in
shall not delay upon those melancholy aspects.
hoping that every Princeton man uses his time.
the age of sixty or seventy have such TeheC-
arises to ones mind as he watches the shadow
move. 1t is the relation Of our life 10 the
This dial will, I hope, stand here for many ages.
1t viii stand here when all Of us have been for
oories VIII be forgotten, when nothing may be left
even WIDER range Of influence than she has now
Let us hope that It will always be remembered
ishman who loved America as he loves England.
and who desired to commemorate. to typfy not
union Of the hearts of the two peoples.
President Wilson replied to Mr. Bryce with
short speech of acceptance. He began by reading
the following two cable dispatches:
Hearty greetings to assembly. May sun dial rec
through