New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-05-15

may starve and extinguish those tastes and ca
pacites for enjoyment which lie closer 10
and power; What shall It profit man AM, II ne
Some great men have found the highest form,
of enjoyment in the search for truth Goethe
of his SFaust'-in serving others and helping
forward the progress of the world
Egerton L. Winthrop, president of the Board
of Education, spoke briefly the cty's con-
slant improvement in the scope of its educa-
tional institutions.
PRESIDENT ELIOTS CONGRATULATIONS
Then President Eliot OF Harvard offered to
the college "the congratulations and good wishes
of all the American colleges and universities
He said the strong institutions welcomed COM
petition, and continued:
They like TO compete with institutions which
sTe S heEd high and Whose
is well trained, and therefore enlinently service
country therefore, find cause for fresh rejoicing
in the new strength of the College OF the CITY OK
New York, which was already strong.
1t was well after the lunch hour when Mr..
Choate called to speak in behalf OF the citi-
zens of New York and he remarked he had
learned as a lawyer never to talk to hungry
jury. He went on in the same light ven say
ing that like shakespeare's first Citizen sec
ond citizen" etc. he wore no cap and gown, and
therefore should have little to say.
The representatives of the other colleges and
universities were to have been introduced, but
the only one called on was Mark Twain. Tor
Oxford He "jollied" his hearers and said for
seventy-two years he had been trying to reach
that plane of higher education where one ac-
quires modesty and retiring disposition. He
hadn't succeeded far. ahe said.
After a benedicton by the Rev. DR.. W. r.
Richards the audience adjourned to the gynna-
Stun for luncheon. The guests were then taken
a bout the buildings
The dedication ceremonies at the Chemistry
Building were presided over by Professor Charles
Baskerville. director of that department.. Pro-
lessor Edgar F. Smith. vice-provost of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, spoke on a Pioneer OF
Chemistry" tribute to Professor Wolcott
Gibbs first professor OF chemistry in the college
who is still living at the age of eighty-six and
whose portrait was unveiled yesterday Presi-
dent Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins University
wrote speech on Some Changes In Chemistry
In the Last Fifty Years but owing to his be-
ing in Washington it read by Professor II
r Moody Other speeches were made by Pro-
fessor Wilder D. Bancroft, of Cornell: DR.. W. III
Nichols, Controller Metz and Edward NJ 'Shep-
ard.
There were students exercises, procession OF
undergraduates to name the gates and base
ball and lacrosse games to fill the daylight
hours before the concert and illumination.
George B. Post, the architect of the new CITY
College buildings, was the architect for the STOCK
Exchange the Cotton Exchange and the Prod
uce Exchange, and is now making the plans
for the S6O000OO Capitol building at Madison
Wis 1t is said that Columbia will confer the
degree of LID. on Mr.. Post on May -. He Is
a member of the Legion of Honor of France and
was sent to the International Convention OF
Architects in London last year by president
Roosevelt to represent the United States