New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-11
cardinal Wolsey" Is Hero
of Commencement to
Student Body.
mitchell ADDRESSES
THE GAP GRADUATES
Mayor, Secretary of War Garri-
SON and Five Others Are Given
Honorary Degrees.

There are some who will think that the
feature OF the commencement exercises
at New York University yesterday was
Mayor Mitchers speech; others will be-
lieve II was the number OF young men
and women who received degrees-S42 the
largest class yet graduated by the insti-
tuition: many will say II was Chancellor
Browns address; each parent and reia-
tive OF each individual graduate Will not
admit that anything transcribed In I'M
portance the comforting OF the degree on
the aforesaid individual graduate. But
the student body will tell you 1t was now
cardinal Wolsey" held the door.
The door that bids fair to go down
into the traditional history OF the uni
versity. rivalling the bridge the army OF
Lars Porsena tried to cross twenty-five
hundred years ago. opens In the auditor-
ium OF the Gould Memorial Library
where the exercises were held. AND IKE
Horatus of old, Cardinal Wolsey,' an
old employe OF the university, whose real
name Is as unknown to the average STU
dent at N. Y. L. as are some OF the
names inscribed In the Hall OF Fame, gal
thousand. He had neither Titus Herni-
us nor a Spurius Lartius to help him.
but alone he held the door after TWO
thousand had crowded into the auditon-
um, and the pleadings OF relatives OF
graduates, the threats Of students or the
profrered brides OF the more tactful had
no effect on him. Had the university
others like Cardinal Wolsey' and had
they been posted at the windows, the
hundred or so Of the more audacious who
forced their way In after being repulseo
at the door would not have entered.
But all saw the parade. At the head OF
II marched the 23d Regiment Band. and
then came Chancellor Brown and Mayor
Mitchell. They were followed by the SIX
others who, with Mayor Mitchell, re-
ceived honorary degrees, and tho gradu-
ates and the faculty. in cap and gown
Those who received honorary degrees
and the degrees conferred upon them' De-
sides Mayor Mitchell, who received the
degree Of Doctor OF Laws. were Lindley
Miller Garrison, Secretary OF War; Tor
mer Supreme Court Justice David Leven-
tritt, Professor Schuchert, Of Yale; Fran
els Hovey Stoddard, retiring dean OF the
College of Arts and Pure Science OF New
York University, all Of whom received
the honorary LII. D.: the Rev. Percy
Butler Wightman, Of the University
Heights Presbyterian Church. who was
presented with the honorary d. D., and
Frank Weitenkampf, author and editor,
chief Of the arts and print department OF
the New York Public Library. who was
honored with the degree OF Doctor OF
Humane Letters. f4
Mayor Mitchell in his address an
nounced that one Of the largest pro-
grammes Of his administration contem-
plated the introduction OF thorough
system of vocational training In the
schools Of the city
Chancellor Brown urged the graduates
to take the trouble to be well informed
regarding their respective communities.
great part Of the evils Of politics, ne
said. were due to a lack Of such knowl-
edge
Lawrence L. Bristol, jr. OF New YORK;
winner of the s. r. B. Morse medal IN
phvsics. was the valedictorian. and John
s. Coldwell, winner Of the Samuel b.
Duryea fellowship. delivered the saiuta-
tory grafton.
Other prize winners were: William q.
Inman fellowship. Bruce Robinson Silver:
William A. Hoe. jr.. sanitary engineering
prize. George Harold Bogart; A. Ogden
Butler classical fellowship, Francis M
Barranco: A. ogden Butler philosophical
fellowship, Israel 2. Toub; A. Ogden But
Ter Eucleian prizes. Charles II. Noxon, 1r..
and Everett E. Gardner; Herman Rider
German prize. Israel Lavenburg; william
n Inman fellowship, Bruce Robinson Sill
YER; George Augustus Sandman grafton
prizes, Ubaldo J. Maria and Joseph Spath
Ziadi; Frederick Seward Gibson prize.
Abraham Sinberg; Sherborne Vernon
Damerel prize, William Aloysius Lynch;
class OF 'O7 debating medals, first, Arthur
Parsons Levin; second. Daniel Stern
Schwartz and, third, Abraham Morris
Fabian.
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