The sun., 1919-10-26
KING FLIES TO
. WEST POINT TO
REVIEW CADETS
Albert Is First Monarch Be-
fore Whom Battalion
Ever Paraded.
GETS COLUMBIA LII. d.
Prince Sees Football Game and
Queen Visits Her Official
Jeweller.


King Albert flew to West Point yes
terday morning and was back at the
Waldorf for luncheon. For him the
cadets of the United States Military
Academy paraded--their first review
by q monarch. In the afternoon,
abandoning the sirplane in favor of a
motor car, he went to Columbia Uni
versity and received the degree Of doc
tor of laws. The King upon his sec
ond visit to New York is maintaining
his record for speedy accomplishment.
Meanwhile Queen Elizabeth. after
visiting Fifth avenue jewelry firm,
viewed a display Of Belgian art at the
American Art Galleries and saw among
other things the imperial banner that
formerly graced the automobile Of the
Kaiser. Late In the afternoon she was
the guest of Mrs. Cornelius Wander
bilt in the latter's home, $40 Fifth ave-
nue.. Prince Leopold went to West
Point and stayed to see his first Amer
tcan football game. the cadets against
Boston College.
Z The King was accompanied to Co
T lumbia by the Belgian Ambassador,
Baron Emil de Cartier de .-1rcienne,
with Bill Nye of the Secret Service on
the front seat and motor cops clearing
the way. Hoarse students who had Just
finished cheering Columbia's victory
over Amherst had some noise left for
Albert Thousands OF persons were
rnassed about the Alma Mater statue.
President Butler and Col. William Bar
clay Parsons who commanded the
Eleventh Engineers In the Cambria
drive, this pair escorted by Prof H B.
Mitchell and Prof. John Erskine. met
the King at the 116th street curb. They
walked as far as the statue on a Grim
son carpet, and then up the steps and
into the library.
. The ceremony took place in the CEN
tire of the main reading room, from
which study benches had been removed.
and beneath a Belgian flag. The trustees
and members of the faculty were pres
ent. DR.. William H McCastline was
marshal of the trustees and Prof. r. H.
Schuyler and Prof. T. r. Powell mar
shalled the university council and epe-
cially invited senior professors.
Visited College ~ Prince.
In comforting tho degree Of Doctor
of Laws, magma cum laude. the univer-
sity's highest academic honor. President
Butler recalled that the King. then a
prince, visited Columbia informally
twenty years ago. Speaking of Belgium
in the war, he said that Germany had
offered a tempting price. But. thank
God. 1t was not high enough to buy the
honor Of Belgium or to quiet the clamor
Of the conscience OF the Belgian people"
He continued:
Amid the uproar Of war. the crash
of cannon and the appalling destruction
OF human life and human monuments
your Majesty was serene, confident and
single minded in devotion to the people
OF Belgium. Your Majesty was bent
upon protecting not only their honor
but their independence and their soil.
When a gracious word would help that
word was forthcoming; when a graceful
deed would assist that deed was done.
Every day saw the bonds growing closer
and tighter that bound your Majesty
to the hearts Of the people Of Belgium.
"Such heroic and devoted service by
the head of a noble State will All a
place in the worlds permanent history.
Nothing that this university can do.
nothing that any university can do, will
add to the significance or increase the
Importance Of that service: but Co.
lumbia University. born of the aspira-
tions of free men. bent upon maintain
ing and extending freedom, with a SYM
pathy as wide as the limits OF human
knowledge and human conduct. would
not b etrus to itself did II not ask the
privilege Of association with the supreme
service and sacrifice of Belgium and
with your MaJesty's person. as truly
and fully representative of the spirit and
resolve OF that devoted people.
ITO that end ask that your Majesty
accept membership in this university as
Doctor OF Laws, magma cum laude, to-
gether with these tokens. so that here
after whenever the history OF Belgium
and its ruling house be written the name
OF this university may be associated
with 1t, and to the further end that this
university shall have its share in the
pride and satisfaction with which the
name of Belgium and It's King will for
ever be regarded by grateful genera
tons to come"
King Accept Degree.
The King. upon receiving the parch-
ment from DR.. Butler and having the
hood Of the doctorate placed across his
arm, replied:
Il feel deeply the sympathetic way
in which you have received us here To-
day. | express my sincere thanks to
the president and the board of trustees
of the University OF Columbia for the
very kind speech. 1 am highly gratiAed
by the honor which has Just been con-
ferred upon me. Nothing could give me
more pride than to receive the degree
from Columbia. the largest and one of
the Oldest universities in the country.
This exceptional centre of culture has
taken permanent part in the develop
inent Of the American nation in both
aspects Of its splendid genius. May its
prosperity continue to progress in the
future for the greatest benefit OF all the
people,"
on the way to the university King
Albert traversed Fifth avenue and Cen
trail Park and on the return rode down
Riverside Drive as far as Seventy second
street but the party went so fast that
. comparatively few persons recognized
the military figure In the leading car.
Although the King did not retire until
> A. NJ yesterday he was up soon after 6
and by 80 o'clock was at the Columbia
Yacht Club, at Eighty-sixth street and
sAe Hudson River. ready to mount the
seaplane which was to convey him to
West Point. The machine and the pilot
len, IE-an IL Y