Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-10-20
DR.. MACCRACKEN
MADE PRESIDENT
OF LAFAYETTE
Formally Inaugurated as
Ninth Executive Head
of Easton College
RRuMBAUGH PRESENT

rAsroN. Pa. oct. 2O,-Dr. John Henry
,ssccracken today was lnaugurated ninth
"e,dont OF Lafayette College in the
rreeence Of distinguished assemblage OF
r.nresentative citizens.
rovernor Brumbaugh was late in arriv-
-. and the academic procession preceding
ne inauguration ceremonies was delayed
she Ne PROCESSION moved into the audi
..rsun, OF Pardee Hall. The audience
stood and applauded the distinguished
narchers as they entered, Governor
ns,,,nbaugh and Doctor Warheld. eighth
nresIdent Of Lafayette who walked up the
p,sie together. were given a great ova-
~, Al the end of the procession were
~ p Pardee, president of the board Of
,rcstees. and Doctor MacCracken. They
,,ere greeted by lengthy applause.
Mr.. Pardee began the ceremony by call
80 an DR. Henry Mitchell MacCracken.
father of the new president, to make the
Invocation.
nr John MacCracken was presented
~, lanes Gary, of New York city. a
,nember Of the board of trustees. Mr..
pardee then made the induction and
transferred the insignia of office. This
last ceremony consisted in handing to
hector MacCracken the charter OF the
rolege. which is dated 1926. and the giant
rev Of the Bastile In Paris. the emblem
~ the link existing between the college
and the nation which produced Marquis
fafayette, for whom the college is
named. Doctor MacCracken then made
Me inaugural address on THE College
and Commonwealth"
1T The trend of the educational methods
ss they exist in substantially every college
N the East was scored by President Mac
No sternly criticised the attitude Of
college graduates toward learning, declar-
Ing they do not attach importance to the
aims of the course of study.
..Do we Americans generally prize very
highly the knowledge which the college
curriculum purports to impart?' de-
manded Doctor MacCracken. do we not
rather all agree that the majority of col
lege students do not know, five years
after graduation, what they gave suffi-
cient evidence of knowing to pass the
college examinations?
.If knowledge impaired in the college
Is not worth remembering, 1 would re-
place 1t in the curriculum with some-
thing that is so worth while
''If the method of teaching gives us a
student who does not know as a senior
what he knew as a freshman, nor as an
alumnus what he knew at commence
ment, l would change the method of
teaching.
'If our method of teaching language
does not give the student facility in either
reading or speaking a language, we must
improve the method
CONFER HONORARY DEGREES.
The Inaugural ceremony was completed
BY conferring honorary degrees on nine
teen men, prominent in various walks of
lfe.
Prof Edward Hart. of the department
Of chemistry, conferred the degree of
Doctor of science on the following:
PRANK HENRY CONSTANT recently elected
professor of civil engineering in Princeton
llnlysrsity. a vice president Of the Society
and dlstinguished engineer and teacher,
HENRY FAY. of the class Of 1889. professor
Institute of Technology and chemical adviser
OF many large manufacturing firms.
by birth, author and teacher. her Now pro-
lessor OF research medicine In the University
eEoRGE JoSEPY RAY. civil engineer who
6nt the great Tunkhannock viaduct and the
hopateong- -Slateiord cutoff, chief engineer of
Railroad.
DOCTORS OF LETTERS.
Dr. w. B. Owen, of the department of
Latin, presented the following candidates
for the degree of doctor of letters:
MARTY GROVE BRUMBAUGH, educator and
Governor OF Pennsylyania.
X,
Tor nearly % years at the head Of the de-
partment of Latin in the New York Uni
DR.. ETHELBERT ID. WAKEFIELD. lawyer,
minister and the head OF three higher insti-
tutions of learning in succession-Miam mi Uni
terslty for three years. Lafayette College,
- Years, and now taking up the presidency
of wilson College at Chambersburg.
DOCTORS OF LAWS.
David Hennett King. of New York
city presented the following candidates
for the degree of doctor of laws:
FRANCIS SKUNK BROWN, Attorney General
,oi ,of the Commonwealth OF Pennsylvania
"ls,,ss,IoN ',,s,oN Gnu re-. Ii. author. reformer and
political philosophs..
tnOMAS DEVIL . L CUYLER, lawyer director
" kne Pennsylvania Railroad.
AiL,bEhT HI1NGY GARY, chairman of the
United States gteel Corporation.
HRpNAhD KIDDER GRAHAM, president of
~ ne y University OF North Carolina.
1HoAAS HASTINGS, architect.
ALn5;hr xas;,hr kosS HILL, president Of the Uni
CYRUS HALL. MCCORMICK. president of the
tlnt.crnational Harvester Company, trustee OF
frinceton University - =
HybEkT MACKENZIE. secretary Of the Col
sles,ke Board OF the Presbyterian Church.
sonN .1 z. SHARPE, principal OF Blair Acad-
Joseph ROSS STEVENSON. president Of the
lneologicai Seminary OF Princeton ". j.,
pmoaeratnr OF the general assembly OF the
fresnyterian Church..
o2fWALp GARRISON WILLARD author ana