Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-22
French Professor Rejoices
at Creation of New College


PRINCETON, Oct. 22-Professor
Emile Boutroux, director of the Fon-
dalton Theirs in France. in q congrat-
ulatory address at the dedication ex-
ercises here today. applied to the
Graduate College q phrase recently
used BY Lord Rosebery at the inau-
duration OF the Waller Institute in
London: Here we have so TO speak,
a temple OF silence; dedicated to re-
search" Professor Boutroux said:
81 am especially happy as a French
man to assist at the inauguration OF
this hearth OF high culture, because
OF its analogy to two institutions in
my own country---tiae Ecole Normale
Superieure, where studied and where
/ have taught, and the Foundation
Theirs, of which I have the honor to
be director. But 1t is not only as q
Frenchman, but also as a man, that
am happy to participate in the pres
emit ceremonies. The problem of hui
man culture consists. in general, in
reconoiling the maintenance of ma
tionai traditions with the pursuit of
universal truth, and here all thinking
beings meet, whatever their language,
whatever their native land.
This problem belongs especially to
the universities and when the latter
serve the interests Of higher learning,
as you do here. It is but justice to say
that they deserve well Of all mankind.
81 do not think I am exceeding my
right when, from the point of view of
the higher intellectual interests of
America, rejoice at the creation of
this Graduate College. Universities
abound in this country; they are part
Of the rich diversity of this unique ma
ton. Is 1t not precious thing for
~r.sf Ahak sas1
from the most distant parts of the
land should come TO a centre Of higher
learning such as this, to study, to
think and to feel. in common? VIII
they not contribute in valuable way
to the development of that national
soul, that national conscience, without
which no nation is truly alive, strong
and productive?
May / be allowed to offer to the
generous donors my respectful con-
gratulations on the noble example
they have set to the world? To make
wealth and to accumulate it Is
worthy of praise: concentration of
power is the law of all creation. But
IL man content himself with the
production of wealth and with its
mere boarding, he does not show any
real superiority since even in nature
all that exists is only power in re-
serve. The task that is original, diff
cult and splendid, is the intelligent
and beneficent use of accumulated
treasure. The mere accumulation is
q state of matter; it's intelligent use is
the work of the mind and man is
worthy not because he possesses, but
according to his use of his possess
eions.
This institution is precisely of the
sort TO honor its creators. 1t offers to
picked company of young men the
most valuable conditions of prepare
ton for the service of their country
and of humanity; in the first place. to
reflect. to work-no longer as school
boys, but as investigators, and TO de-
Velop by meditation q true Scientific
spirit before the exigencies of life dis
tract them: secondly, intimate COM
panionship with men equally distin-
gushed, but devoted to different fields
of study. affords supreme oppor-
tunity for acquiring that breadth and
depth of view which alone constitute
intellectual superiority, and which, in
an age when specialization is impos-
ing itself upon us more and more is
becoming increasingly difficult to pos
sess. $50. .f fz-
"I would apply to the Graduate Coll
lege of Princeton the phrase recently
used by Lord Rosebery at the inau-
guration of the Waller Institute in
London: Here we have, SO to speak,
q temple of silence, dedicated to re-
search" The only danger Is lest this
home OF meditation and purely scien-
tific labor recall those templa serena
spoken of by Lucretius, from which
the passive sage contemplated, but