Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-22
Tells Faculty Of University Of
Paris That Searching Light
of Conscience Would Be
Turned on PIotterS,
HOPES EXPOSURE TO
SETTLE QUESTION
Declares If Central Powers
Had Dared to Discuss Pres
ent War a Fortnight It
Would Not Have Happened

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10y MORNING IcuRHAL SPECIAL LEASED wlREI
Paris, Dec. 81 (Havas) In the
great amphitheater Of the University
of Paris (the Sorbonne), President
Wilson this afternoon received the
degree of Doctor, Honoris Causa, CON
ferred upon him In recognition of Ills
work as a jurist and historian. This
is the first time in the history of the
university that an honorary degree
has been bestowed, authorization for
its granting having been given by Il
recent decree,
President Poincarc. the presidents
of the senate and chamber of depu-
ties, the diplomatic corps, members of
the government and the highest civil
and military authorities were present
at the ceremony,
Great crowds checred the president
when he arrived at the university
accompanied by Mrs Wilson, william
Graves Sharpe, the American amDas-
sador, and Jean jules Jusserand,
French ambassador to the United
States.
Alfred Crojset, dean Of the faculty
Of letters, welcomed President Wilson
In 4 short address and presented to
him the diploma of doctor as a testl-
monial to his work as historian
Ferdinand Larnsaude. dean Of inc
faculty Of law, then bestowed upon
the president the degree OF doctor for
= Observation-Disclosures and MONT .
cal science.
I,ucien Poincare, vice rector of the
university and brother OF the presi-
dent of the republic, paid an eloquent
tribute to President Wilson'S ability
as a professor before he entered upon
his political career and told OF inc
presidents part in the war In con-
clusion NJ. Poincare said,
"Glory to the American students!
Glory to the eminent professors ana
their universities! Glory to you, MI,
President, who are the first amongst
them. In the name of the University
of Paris I have the honor to award
the insignia and diploma OF doctor 70
one whom posterity VIII salute with
the surname The Righteous President
Wilson"
Honor Kccnly Felt.
President Wilson, in acknowledge
ing the honor bestowed upon him to-
day by the University of Paris in the
form of a DOCTORS degree, said:
II feel very keenly the Distinguish
cd honor which has been conferred
upon me by the great university OF
Paris, and it is very delightful to me
also to have the honor of being IN
Quoted into the great company OF
scholars whose life and fame nave
made the history of the University Oh
Paris a thing admirable among men
of cultivation in all parts Of the
world.
"By what you have said, sir, of the
theory of education which has been
followed in France and which ! have
tried to promote in the United states
7 am tempted to venture upon a raw
orite theme. I have always thought
that the chief object of education
was to awaken the spirit and that, IN
as much as a literature whenever IL
has touched its great and higher
notes was an expression of the spirit
of mankind, the best induction INTO
education, was to feel the pulses oil
humanity which had beaten from age
TO age through the universities OF
men who had penetrated to the sec
rets of the human spirit.
and / agree with the intlmauoh
which has been conveyed today that
the terrible war through which we
have just passed has not been only
war between nations, but that IT has
been also a war between systems OF
culture-the one system the aggress-
i've system, using science without con-
science, stripping learning of its NOR
al restraints and using every faculty
of the human mind to do wrong TO
the whole race; the other system rem
iniscent of the high tradition of men,
reminiscent of all their struggles,
some of them obscure. but others
closely revealed to history, of men OF
indomitable spirit everywhere strug-
Cling towards the right and seeking
above all things else to be free.
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