New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-03
FINLEY INSTALLED
AS EDUCATION HEAD
University Officials and
Public Men Take Part
in Ceremony.
RECEPTION HELD AT
EXECUTIVE MANSION
New State Commissioner Re.
ceives Many Words of
Encouragement.
by telegraph 70 The rrlhune |

encouragement.
by Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Albany, Jan. THE Inauguration OF
Or. John Huston Finley as State Com
missioner OF Education and president Of
the University Of New York brought to-
sether in the new 10000 state education
building here many OF the country's
noted educators and men OF affairs. The
] ceremonies began this morning at 10
o clock with a reception in the education
building. where hundreds OF visitors con-
graduated Or. Finley
Another reception to the new Commits
sioner Of Education terminated the exer-
cises this evening in the spacious rotunda.
IL was preceded by a meeting. at which
! addresses were made by Governor Glynn.
Franklin *. Lane Secretary Of the In
terror. Charles ". Eliot president enc
ritus Of Harvard University. and Am
| bassadoT Jusserand Of France.
/ The speakers at the afternoon gather
Ing were ST. Clair McKelway. chancellor
of the university Nicholas Murray But
! Ter. president of Columbia University.
Frank II. Fosdick. principal of the Mas
ten Park High School. Of Buffalo; Calvin
r. Kendall. Commissioner Of Education
of New Jersey. and William Church Os-
/ born. II was at this gathering that DR..
| Finley made his inaugural address
Governor Glynn gave a breakfast at
noon at the Executive Mansion in honor
Of Or. Finley. and d reception for DR.. and
Mrs. Finley at the Executive Mansion
this evening. At the latter reception were
present educators publicists and promi-
nent men from all over the country, to-
gether with nearly all the state officials
from Governor Glynn and Lieutenant
Governor Wagner down.
New York University was represented
| by Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown
and six deans and one head Of a division
of the university.
GIynn Sees Aid in Religion.
zone Of the most significant facts in
the history Of our country is that the
man who wrote the Declaration of hide
pendence was one Of the men who blazed
the way for the country's system of COM
mon schools" said Govern Glynn in his
address And when Thomas jefferson
proclaimed TO the world that Americas
men demanded freedom of conscience and
/ OF action he performed no greater ser
vice than when he sought for America 5
children that freedom of education with
out which all other freedom is insecure.
New York led the rest Of the country
with the first public school. and it leads
to-day as it did go years ago The first
act Of Governor Clinton after the British
army of occupation had cleared from
Staten Island was to urge the Legisla-
ture 10 provide a suitable system of edu-
cation.
To speak Of the schools of New York
without dwelling for a moment upon what
religious and charitable organizations
have done for the cause of education In
the state would be unfair and short
sighted. No inconsiderable part of the
children of the state have received their
schooling at the hands Of private and de-
nominational teachers. Religion has per-
formed additional service to the state by
opening the doors Of knowledge 10 all
who came within its influence. Charity
has been open-handed not only in an
sweling the needs o, the body, but in
striving 10 pIONlue tHe HeCeSslieS VI tHS
mind.
THE schoolmaster and the clergyman
have worked hand in hand for the bet
terment of those about them. And in
many cases the clergyman and the school
master have been one and the same.
Education. as We know il, is under,
obligations to many men and many intu-
ences but there is no single factor 10
which education owes a greater debt than
il does to religion. The shrine and the
schoolhouse have never been very far
apart at any stage Of the worlds prog
ress. Education is the natural conse-
ouence of a desire to help ones fellow
man.
Il know the public schools. and, be-
cause ! know them. ! refuse to be dis
turbed by those who seek. from time TO
time, TO alarm the nation with gloomy
forebodings and dire predictions. For
when they tell us that danger threatens
the institutions Of the Republic. when
they warn us that the ship Of state is
drifting into perlous waters. when the
cvnic grows fainthearted and the credu-
lous becomes discouraged. hear the bells
ringing from ten thousand public schools
and my heart grows warm again
Buffers Test Of Success.
There is no more sure measure OF a
peoples progress in civilization than the
growth of their power of sef-control and
self-discipline." said Nicholas Murray
Butler. president of Columbia University.