New-York tribune., 1919-06-19
". Y. u. H0n0rs
General ORyun
27th Diuision Leader Is
Made Doctor of La,us
at 47th Commencement

Major General John F. O'Ryan, SOL
dier and lawyer, was made a Doctor of
Laws yesterday by New York Uni
versity at its eighty-seventh commence
ment. The same degree was con-
ferred on former Senator Theodore E.
Burton and Alonzo Barton Hepburn,
chairman of the board of the Chase
National Bank.
Thomas Coleman Du Pont and Henry
Robinson Towne received the degree
OF Doctor of Commercial Science; DR..
William Grosvenor Bissell, department
of Health, Buffalo, Doctor Of Public
Health; the Rev. Harry E. Fosdick,
of the First Presbyterian Church, and
the Rev. DR.. George Alexander, presi-
dent of the council, New York Unt-
versity. Doctor Of Divinity.
There were 212 graduates. Prize
winners were announced as follows:
In the College of Arts and Pure
Science:
A. Ogden Butler Classical Fellow
ship, Joseph Moses Roth.
James Gordon Bennett prize, Saliva
tore Traina.
Frederick Seward Gibson prize, Elliot
Kadson.
George Augustus Sandman oration
prizes, Macdonald memorial prizes in
public speaking, class of 1907, debating
medals-First, Lawrence Fertig; sec
ond, Donald Brown; third, Samuel B.
Lesser.
Glass Of 1907 debating bar, Arthur
Schwartz.
In the School Of Applied Science:
William A. Hoe junior sanitary engi-
neering prize, Walter John Clark.
Walter H. Inman fellowship in SCI
ence, Harry Andrew Mulder.
Samuel B. Duryea fellowship, Alfred
Soman, jr.
Sherborne Vernon Damerel memorial
prize, Floyd Joseph Egan.
In the Washington Square College,:
Alumni gold medal May Winter.
DR.. Maurice Francis Egan, former
Minister to Denmark, delivered the
commencement address in the after
noon in the Hall of Fame at University
Heights.
DR.. Egan said in part:
eve wonder why France franticly
demands territory that she may pro-
tect herself in future from that Ger
man phoenix which is eager to rise
again. Now, why should we so mis-
understand these nations? Why should
we apply rules to them which our own
conduct, were we in their circum-
stances, would not stand? In 1860 we
fought our brothers for the union of
territories which meant the salvation
of the national life; that fight was
more bitter than the fight which is
going on to-day at the peace confer
ence, that each nation may have her
fixed place in the world.
"You and l may disagree as to
whether Italy should have all the Dali
matian coast, or possess Fiume; but
we cannot set down the desire of any
nation to be a frst-rate power as un-
utterably selfish, until we know the
actual conditions and examine our own
consciences in the light of those con-
ditions. We hastily decide the fate of
Ireland, of Poland, Of Bulgaria, in our
ironic question What did these ma
tions do in the warp This is not the
question at all, but the question is
What, in the light of justice and the
rights Of their people, ought these
nations, to be free in spirit, to
possess?'"
The degree Of Bachelor Of Arts
magma cum laude was awarded to
George Edward Anderson. Samuel
Moskowitz and Salvatore Traina were
graduated Bachelors Of Art cum laude.
John Joseph Buckley and Charles
Morton Cremer won degrees of Bache-
lors of Science cum laude. The de-
gree Of Bachelor Of Science magma
cum laude was awarded to Mabel Au-
ka T,1&Alo