Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-12
TAFT GETS DEGREE
Given IL. D. at President Hib-
ben's Inauguration.
SPEAKER AT LUNCHEON
Expresses His Views Regarding
Benefit of University Training.
MANY COLLEGE HEADS ATTEND
Chief Justice White, in His Address,
Pays Glowing Tribute to
Grover Cleveland.
MANY COLLEGE HEADS ATTEND

PRINCETON. N. J., May 11-Under the
tall elm trees on the historic campus.
John Gr1er Hibben was today inaugura ted
the fourteenth president of Princeton Uni
versity. The occasion was favored with
beautiful weather and with the presence
of the President of the United States
and the Chief Justice of the nation 6
Supreme Court. More than 5000 persons
were banked in front of Old Nassau
hall. where the ceremony took place. and
gave the new president Of the university
q most cordial reception.
The oath of Office was administered by
Associate Justice Mahlon Pitney of the
Supreme Court of the United States.
A part Of the ceremony of induction
was the comforting of the honorary de-
gree of doctor Of laws upon President
Taft and Chief Justice White When
Andrew F. West, dean of the graduate
school, in comforting the degrees, spoke OF
President Taft as maintaining the indie
pendence of the judiciary and advancing
to the limit of his official powers the
cause of international peace, he was in
terrupted by hearty applause. The con-
ferring Of the degrees followed the de-
livery by President Hibben of his in
augural address, in which he spoke on the
essentials of a liberal education.
Nearly 1000 Alumni Present.
Nearly 1900 Princeton alumni and III
representatives Of other universities and
educational institutions crowded the gym
nasium for the alumni luncheon after the
Inauguration ceremony. Taylor Pyne,
TO- Of the board of trustees, presided and
presented President Taft as the first
speaker. President Taft said in part:
81 made a confidential communication
to you at the ceremonial exercises on the
campus which renew now, to say that l
have not had such good time for year.
have been in the habit, when times
troubled me in the White House. of look
and Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln and
Cleveland, and to minimize my own
troubles by what they had to go through.
But 1 am getting to point where that
comparison is not SO helpful.
You don't have to argue with all those
who have gone through Harvard. Yale,
Columbia, Princeton and all the great
universities to know that there Is no
place in the world where a man of the
age of the undergraduate is taken at his
real standing as he is in these univer-
stiles. That's the first democracy. You
know that when he has graduated under
these conditions and goes out into the
world he goes out a real democrat, re-
he has from his university training to
meet the responsibilities Of a democrat.
but not in any degree Understanding
the value Of understanding the God-given
characteristics of popular government
under a constitution of liberty
Lauds Grover Cleveland.
Chief Justice White eulogized Grover
Cleveland, who, as President, he said,
yielded to no man that ever filled the
great office in high purposes. In great
devotion to duty, in the simplicity of
his life and in the enduring and everiast-
ing purpose to maintain undiminished
all the rights and liberties OF the Ameri-
can people Justice White further said:
THE great thought which the constitu-
tional fathers conceived. the great thing
which they executed was to bring into
being a government which rested upon
and upon the fact that every American
could not be beguiled away from the
institutions of his fathers by temporary
passions or by demagog1c exhortation,
but calling into play his character, his
love Of country, SO that in the hands of
the American people free institutions
would be forever SAFE.
unwisely? Who can say that they were
mistaken? When they said. We
are legtslating for a free people and
building a government which We create
unon the character OF that people, who
can say that they made mistaken"
College Heads Speak.
Other addresses were made by Presi-
dent Patten of the Princeton Theo-