The Washington herald., 1911-06-22
SUPREME COURTS
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InOTIor OOdrd ana gown Win the hood
Of his LII. d. degree. President Hadley
and ex-President Dwight, at the head of
the faculty. were just passing as the
President emerged. He shook hands
with them and then dropped back TO
a position with the other members of
the Yale corporation, directly behind the
secretary, Anson Phelps Stokes, and the
treasurer George P. Day.
The ranks of the candidates for de-
grees opened when Woolsey Hall was
reached to permit the faculty, the cor
poration members. and invited guests
to pass through as the youngsters stood
with heads uncovered. They were on
their good behavior, were these about-to-
be graduates. The official announcement
had told them that they must not smoke
in the procession apd that they could
not yield to the persuasions Of the little
town boys who hawked metal diploma
cases along the line. Those things had
to wait.
Sat in the Back Row.
Inside the President occupied a seat in
the back row OF to one side. His posi-
ton was determined by his length Of
service of the corporation. In the CEN
ter was President Hadley, flanked by Sec
retary Stokes and ex-President Dwight.
Lieut.. Gov. Blakeslee was on the plat
form, and the rest were candidates for
honorary degrees and those prominent in
the universitys administration.
The comforting of degrees, Of course,
were much the same as 1t is at every
commencement. The lines filed past and
received the sheepskins, and their ad-
mirers applauded. Then came the hon.
orary degrees.
There were four master of arts de-
grees conferred. The recipients were
William Wallace Atterbury, vice presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad a
graduate of Sheffield and an authority
on transportation; Frederick Brooker,
zone OF the leading forces in the de-
velopment of the Nautuck Valley of
Connecticut" Walter McClintock, a
Yale graduate, who is known for his
lectures and writings on the Black
foot Indians, who have adopted him
into their tribe, and Miss Mabel Board
man. chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the National Red Cross So
ciety.
Doctor of Music.
To Franz Kneisel, director of the
Kneisel Quartet and "one largely respon-
sible for the cultivation of interest in
chamber music in America" came the
degree of doctor of music. John Muir.
the author and naturalist, of California,
became a doctor of letters, and upon
Anthony Howell, former president of the
American Psychological Society and ex-
dean of the Johns Hopkins Medical
School, was conferred the degree of doc
tor of science. Rev. George William
Knox, professor of the history of religion
at Union Theological Seminary and a
former missionary to Japan, was made
a doctor of divinity
Then came the doctors of laws. There
were four recipients: Joseph Rucker
Lamar, Of Georgia, who was appointed
to the Supreme Court bench by Mr. Taft:
Josiah Royce, professor of philosophy at
Harvard and for many years a weekly
lecturer at Yale: George Edgar Vincent, |
Yale, 'S5, president of the University of |
and Liang Tung Yen, re- |
Gently elected a member of the imperial |
cabinet of China, 'one of the most re- |
spected and progressive China statesman |
and a Yale man of the class of 49,
There was brief chance to get fresh |
air, and then the alumni gathered in the
'ommons-the university dining hall-for |
the luncheon and the speeches that fol-
owed
Adit hakes speech.
President Vincent made a speech that
was full of brilliance. The other speak,
srs were Justice Lamar. Charles p.
Rowland, and ex-President Dwight, and
hen the air was ripped to pieces with
he "Brek-ek-ek-ek's" that greeted Mr..
Taft.
Mr.. Taft said, in part:
THE university has to-day honored a
Justice of the Supreme Court of the I
United States 1t is a deserved honor.
The most sacred function that a Presi-
lent has to perform is the appointment
# men to that body. 1t is the bulwark
# our liberties. In its work of con-
truction, 1t recognizes the wonderfully
character of our Constitu-
ion in meeting the needs of sane prog
ess, but 1t Stands between us and ex-
RENE and unwise radicalism. 1t stands
or the institutions that served our
athers, and will continue to serve us If ]
he country is to live.
"It has fallen to my lot to have five
Members of that court bear my COM
1ission-a lot 1 think that has fallen to
ut few Presidents-and there is no duty
hat 1 have discharged that has given'l
ne more heartfelt concern, that has worn
lore upon my conscience than the Sc
-ction of the men-pure and upright of
w. / 4
urists and statesmen with courage to
ecide and assert the right. Whether that
uty has been well performed or not the
ountry must decide, but I am willing
D stand upon the record of the court as
ow made, short as 1t is, since the five
TeEe appointed.
Business to BE Gainer. Ii
"The country has hung upon the deci- !
ions of that court in respect OF stat
te the construction of which has given
reat concern to the business and other
of this country. I believe
hose decisions have done, and will con-
nue. TO do, great good to all the busi-
ess of the country, and that they have Z
i'd down q line of distinction which it
not difficult for honest and intelligent ;
usiness men to follow.
They have said that that statute ap-
lies to conspiracies and attempts to re-
rain trade which are undue or unrea-
,nable, because their intent and effect z
partly or wholly to monopohze, to
IcIude or suppress competition and con-
ol prices, and not to combinations or
ssociation In the normal development Of
where there may be some In :
dental restraint that was not the OBJ
ct of the combination or association.
therefore, il becomes largely a question
fact and a question of conscience with a,
e business community that they can y
ell follow and make the standard of q
elr future action.
There was reception later in the :
ternoon. at which President Hadley