New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-19
Gov. GIynn, Mayor Mitchell
and Justice Weeks En-
courage Graduates.
EX-PRESIDENT FINLEY
ALSO GETS HONOR
About 1000 Persons Attended
c. c. of N. VS. 67th Com
,mencement Exercises.

Degrees were conferred upon seventy
three students graduated from the Col
lege OF the City OF New York at the
sixty-seventh commencement exercises,
held in the Great Hall OF the college. yes
terday morning Governor Glynn, Mayor
Mitchell and Justice Barlow s. Weeks, Of
the State Supreme Court. addressed the
graduates. Or. John II. Finley, State
Commissioner Of Education, formerly
president of the City College, was ap-
plauded by the students when he entered
the hall.
Keep your blood red. your head clear.
and circumstances can never defeat you
and "be men of vision and men OF work
" ere words OF counsel from the Governor
10 the graduating class after the degrees
had been conferred by Or. Werner, acting
president Of the college. Another bit OF
advice from Governor Glynn was:
Don't be afraid OF drudgery and work.
which is the trouble Of too many college
men. Most OF them want to be $4,000 men
before they are So-cent apprentices"
Mayor Mitchell, who spoke at the open
ing Of the exercises. because he had an
engagement downtown, impressed upon
the graduates their duty toward the city,
which had borne the expense of their edu-
cation. He also paid a tribute to DR.. Fin
lev, and said that the man to be chosen
soon as his successor must be one with
the same progressive ideas of education as
had the former president Of the college.
This is the first time ! have come to
CITY College since Mr.. Finley ceased to
be your president" Mayor Mitchell said.
II wonder II ! should say that l am sorry
that he is no longer your president. For
the state am glad, for he has gone to a
greater and wider field, but for the college
l am sorry.
1.-THE other day. in speaking TO the grad
ates Of the New York University. | tried
to impress upon them the duty that they,
as college men, having been permitted to
achieve higher education. owed to the
community at large. l think you OF the
City College owe a still greater duty.
Most men who go through college owe
their education in large measure to the
benefcence of rich men, who endow the
private institution But the graduates or
this college owe their education to the
taxpayers OF the City Of New York, and
they carry out into the community with
them a duty Of participating actively in
public life"
The development Of the system OF edu-
cation, the Mayor said, was one OF the
Il eatest public questions of the day He
emphasized the opportunity OF City Col
lege graduates in that field and the posi-
bilities OF cooperative work between the
city government and the institution from
which they were graduated.
Mayor Mitchell said that when the trus-
tees of the college met soon to choose
president they should not select one who
measured below the standard set by DR..
Finley.
About ZOO persons attended the COM
rcercement exercises. When the diplomas
had been conferred. including the degree
of Cum Laude to Isidore Cohen and Ellis
A. Johnson, Justice Weeks admonlshed
the graduates TO be citizens IN act tact'
as we'll as In words" The oath OF al
leeiance to the city. similar In nature TO
the Ephebic oath. taken by the young
Athenians, was then administered to the
class.
At the conclusion Of the oath Justice
Weeks pinned to the sleeve of each sradu-
ate's gown a coat OF arms of the city
Prizes for efficiency, general and classi-
fed stables were awarded at the conclu-
sion Of the exercises.
This evening the graduating class VIII
be received by the alumni in townsend
Harris Hall.