The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1918-12-24
THEPRES|DENT
AGAIN H0N0RED
Receives Honorary Degree
From University Of France
First Foreigner
TO BE THUS DECORATED
TO BE THUS DECORATED


in acknowledging the honor be-
slowed upon him by the University
of Paris in the form of doctors de-
gree, said:
II feel very keenly the distinguish
ed honor which has been conferred
upon me by the great University OF
Paris, and 1t is very delightful to
me also to have the honor of being
inducted into the great company of
scholars whose life and fame have
made the history of the University
of Paris 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
I have tried to promote in the Unit
ed States, I am tempted to venture
upon favorable theme.
War Between Cultures.
II have always thought that the
chief object of education was to
awaken the spirit, and that mas
much as a literature whenever it
has touched it's great and higher
notes was an expression of the ,spir-
it Of mankind, the best induction
into education was to feel the pulses
of humanity which had beaten from
age to age through the universities
of men who had penetrated to the
secrets of the human spirit.
"And I agree with the intimation
which has been conveyed today that
the terrible war through which we
have just passed as not been only a
war between nations, but that it has
been also war between systems
of culture-the one system the ag-
gressive system, using science with
out conscience, stripping learning of
it's moral restraints and using every
faculty of the human mind to do
wrong to the whole race; the other
system reminiscent Of the high ira
dition Of men-reminiscent of all
their struggles, some of them OBJ
scure, but others closely revealed to
history, of men Of indomitable spirit
everywhere struggling toward the
right and seeking, above all things
else, to be free.
Wave of Moral Force.
"The triumph of freedom in this
war means that that spirit shall
now dominate the world. There is a
great wave of moral force moving
through the world, and every man
who opposes himself to that wave
will 60 down in lisgrace.
"The task of those who are gath
cred here, or will presently be gath
cred here, to make the settlements of
this peace is greatly simplified by the
fact that they are the master of no
one; they are the servants of man
kind. And If we do not heed the
mandates of mankind we shall make
ourselves the most conspicuous and
deserved failures in the history of
the world.
my conception of the league of
nations is just this-that it shall
operate as the organized moral
force of men throughout the world,
and that whenever or wherever
wrong and aggression are planned or
contemplated, this searching light of
conscience will be turned upon them
and men everywhere will ask, What
are the purposes that you hold in
your heart against the fortunes of
the world?'
Exposure a Good Thing.
"Just little exposure will settle
most questions. If the central pow
ers had dared to discuss the pur-
poses of this war for a single fort
night, 1t never would have happened.
And If, as should be, they were
forced to discuss it for year the
war would have been inconceivable.
$50 I feel that the war is, as has
been said more than once today, in
timately related with the university
spirit. The university spirit is in
tolerant of all the things that put
the human mind under restraint. It
is intolerant Of everything that seeks
to retard the advancement of ideals,
the acceptance Of the truth, the puri-
fication Of life. And every univer-
sity man can ally himself with the
forces Of the present time with the
fnAlin1 that mnw ~ last fha anirit of