Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-07
c. ": j. GIVES DEGREES
T0.NEARLY 500 STUDENTS
Honorary Degrees Conferred-Nota.
bic Address by Ex-Minister
Collier.

Degrees were conferred upon nearly
900 students in the various depart
ments of George Washington Uni
versity last evening in the auditorium
of Central High School, The graduates
and their friends heard notable ad-
dress by William Miller Collier former
| minister to Spain, on University Edu-
cation and New World Conditions"
Following the presentation of the de-
grees Rear Admiral Charles H. Stock
ton, U. S. N. retired. president. of the
university, made a brief address urg-
ing service and sacrifice in the world
crisis
Honorary degrees of doctor of laws
were conferred, as follows:
William Miller Collier. A. B., A. NJ
sHamilton College,. lawyer. author
the George Washington University. In
recognition of your honorable profess
SIGNAL and public service
Theodore Williams Noyes. A. B.. A. NJ
lawyer. writer upon fiscal and munich
pal questions, editor of-The Washing
ton Evening Star: for twenty-seven
years and until this last yea.- a trustee
your services to the community end
spirit
Other Honorary Degrees.
Honorary degrees OF doctor of science
were conferred, as follows:
George Perkins Merrill. B. Sc, NJ. Sc
university of Maine), Phi d. (Johns
hopkins University, geologist, min
eet.atoslst, head curator of the United
four years and until this year pro
fessor of geology of the George Wash
lngton University"
Elmer Ernest Southland, A. B., A. NJ
M M ~ Harvard University. physician
patnologist. author and expert inyes-
tlgator of the pathology OF mental dis
cases." Vic
Arthur Powell Davis, B. s. GEORGE
s ma5sneng'qn University. author. civil
ters Of irrigation and reclamation.
director and chief engineer of the
Exclamation service of the United
Frederick Fuller Russell ND fco,-
iege OF Physicians and Surgeons and
University of Berlin). bacteriologist,
pathologist. lieutenant colonel Medical
b barIsr, United States Army; professor Of
Ganraa oi1Ey ana pathology in the
george washington University from
1909 to 1913. author of various papers
on professional subjects and to whose
original research and advocacy is due
very largely the success of the pre-
vention of typhoid fever by inocula
civil life" any anu -
AFTER concert program by Herman
=. Rakemann the audience stood as the
r
nall. An invocation was pronounced by
Kew. Douglas Putnam Birnie.
Address of Mr.. Collier.
Former Minister Collier. in beginning
mis- address, remarked that all our
energies now are properly directed
toward the triumph of our arms, and
continued. But the very methods and
agencies which we employ are them
selves creating conditions which will
later present to US problems no less
profound and complex than those
which today we seek to settle on the
fields of battle"
The speaker referred to the mingling
Of races which alliances and counter
alliances" have brought together, and
added; These modern nations cannot
be punished by a confusion of tongues;
but. remembering that history moves in
cycles and not in straight lines, we may
well ask, Will they be punished by the
| reversal of the process of Babel?
viii one group or nation triumph
stitutions will become world wide and
its language UNIVERSAL"
However conjectural such an outcome
he argued, this intimacy of association
| Of people must inevitably effect a re-
adjustment Of their relations. He pre-
dicted there would be aspirations for
greater liberty and strivings for fuller
recognition.
I'VE see new world in the regroup-
ing of nations" he said. Those which
have a common ethnic origin now clash
in deadly rivalry; but enemies of the
past are now allies. New policies have
been formulated and responsibilities
hitherto undreamed Of have been as
sumed.