New-York tribune., 1909-10-07

tenton 70 the subjects bearing upon their future
career The wise policy for them would appear to /
time to some one subject and taking in addition /
deId1 namOeF OF general courses in wholly unrelated
SOCIAL RELATIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE. !
We have considered the intellectual relation Of |
curriculum but that IS not the onIy college !
amone le See1S relations OF the unaergradus5es
again we may observe forces Il work which tend |
comes here sometimes from a large school with |
an6ss, aI' sometimes from great distance and
wholly strange to HIM, a crowd so large that
ne ne csnLot cain acquaintance with its members
he is liable to fall into cIi0Ue of assoriafes tb
or perhaps, IL shy ana unknown he fails make 1
friends at all; and in either case ne misses the
broadening influence of contact with great vari-
the coeee itself r5rn men b InoSr suGn CONDITIONS
sion OF throwing together youths of promise Of
doubt. be argued that university must reject
5ne state OF the world about IT, and that the ten
functions and social segregation on the basis Of
wealth But this is not wholly true because there
IS, happily in the country tendency also toward
social 3oldaTity and social service stil more
versity is to cOunteraCt rather than copy the de-
lence Of spoils favorits or corruption in the pol
ttics of the country be reason for their adoption
A large college ought to give its students wide
ogRr so hoTough @ tSt h 1es then iSeR
form are based on natural atnites rather than on
most rapidly at the threshold Of college life. and
termined in his freshman year It is Obviously de-
sirabIe, Therefore that the freshmen should be
Moreover; the change from the life of school to
Taken gradually. liberty IL powerful stimulant.
but taken suddenly In large does it is liable to act
| as an intOxiCant Opiate No DOUBT every boy
| ought TO learn TO paddle his own canoe. but We
! canoe and setting him adrift in deep water with
caution that he would 90 Vel & 10 LOOK tor the pad
| lege. enjoys innOcentiy enough the pleasures ~
| pI-Ee to which he has been accustomed ard look
| ing the examinations as remote. falls into in
Presently, he ands himself on probation for
and has a hard. perhaps unsuccessful. struggle TO
| get his head above water. or late years we have
tests; but this alone is not enough In his uTni-
] months ago President Wilson dwelt upon the
chasIn that hos opened between college studies aHd
| iect of the college is study many students fancy
aims breeds irretriavabie waste Of opportunity.
/ The undergraduate should he led to tee rom tne
| and many sided thing, v.lereof mental discipline
II would seem that all these difficulties could he
much lessened If the freshmen were brought TO To-
| under the cor1radeship Of older men who appreci-
| Teen interest In their work and their pleasures
! sucn a plan would enable US also 10 recruit our
here appears to be due less 20 the difficulty OF pre-
| nature Of the life the freshman leads Complaints
] cf the of graduation cause pressure 70 re-
| the standard Of the college decree There would
sEor1d be r7o~e be- rkward than those Of other civ
| ilized countries more than that our under
| less hirhlv than do the in English universities
DEFECT IN THE AMERICAN COLLEGE.
The last pont IS one that re reqgiTsff .,H{ T9Td def of
comment because IL touTneS f tHe INC nos et time
President Pritchett has declared that 1T is seri-
! ton when the conditions within If are such that
stands no longer arneals effectiveIv to the imagi
nations Of those In it We may t',IL , even IN IN U.s. %
tence and execution. No ore will deny that in
either bv the Tndergradiates or by the public
We do not make students enjoy the sense or
power that flows from mastery Of difficult
subject. and a higher plane We do not make
them feel the romance or scnoIarT, @ 'Tm, On
problems of the university. if have said nothing
If brarr RF R apG M the
seums the gardens and the various forms of , ex-
Importance. but because the time is too short 10
tioTs 81 general interest The university touches
the community at nam ny poT1i p and tbro aS time Eqes @
creasins channels But all us activitles are more
4 greater solidarity in college. more earnest
ness of purpose and intellectual enthusiasm would
mean much for our nation It is said that II the
WonId exnand until the foods covered the dry
e1d and n we can increase '4e bne g ann ann
country viii he changed. When the young men
true.
The comforting of the degrees of the university
formed an impressive scene as the new president
greeted each recipient OF degree with lauda-
tory preface of each individual achievement
The degrees conferred We're as follows:
DOCTOR OF LETTERS
James Bryce. British Ambassador 20 the
United States
Joseph Bedier delegate from the College de
Eduard Meyer. delegate from the University
Of Berlin.
Francis Barton Gummere. delegate from Hav-
Frederick Jackson Turner delegate fro, the
University of Wisconsin.
Thomas Walker. professor Of philosophy at
the University of Good Hope.
Edward Parmelee Morris a delegate from Yale
University.
Henry Morse stephens. a delegate from the
University OF california.
DOCTOR OF LAWS.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Colurn-
bia University
Frank Johnson Goodnow. professor at Colum-
bia University.
Edwin Anderson Alderman. president OF the
University Of Virginia.
John Henry Wigmore a delegate from North
western University.
Ira Remsen president of Johns Hopkins Uni
verSity.
Harry Pratt Judson. president of the Univer-
sity OF Chicago.
Jacob Gould schurnan. president of Cornell /
University.
Edmund James James president of the Uni
OTTO Gierke. delegate from the University of .
Berlin.
William Peterson, principal of McGn Uni
versIty.
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE.
William Bergman Scott, delegate from
Princeton University.
William Abbott Herdman. a delc~ot from tie 1
University of Liverpool.
George Alexander Gibson. delegate from the .
University Of Edinburgh.
Jacobus Corbelius kaptein director of the I