The New York herald., 1921-11-09
FOCH, ACADEMICIAN,
TO VISIT COLUMBIA
He Will Lay Cornerstone for
American Academy on
November 19.
NOTABLES TO JOIN HIM
piplOmatists and Educators to
Be Here for Two Days of
Ceremony.

Scholars, diplomatists and public men
from this and other countries will ac-
claim Marshal Foch as the envoy ex-
traordinary Of French art and letters In
two ceremonies at Columbia University
on November 10, said DR.. Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, the president, last night
DR.. Buffers announcement followed
the arrival In this country of Premier
BRAND, who finally fxed the date for
the Marshals visit to Columbia and to
the American Academy of Arts and Let
ters and the France-America Society, Of
which DR.. Butler is president
DR.. Butler, In behalf OF the academy,
said it Is seeking to do IN America
what has been done In France by max
ing "a definite and serious attempt to
combine in one group the bearers and
representatives of the best traditions In
the fine arts as well as in literature.
3 Academies to Be Represented.
For the first time the academies Of
three continents. 1t was announced, Will
meet In a world celebration. Marshal
Foch will represent the French Acad-
envy. Senior Hello Lobo, Consui-Gen-
eral of Brazil In New York. has been
designated by the Brazilian Government
To represent the South American Acad-
emy at the cornerstone laying OF the
American Academy's new building, In
155th street. between Broadway ana
Riverside Drive.
President Harding yesterday notined
William Milligan Sloane, president OF
the academy. that he wouio sena
message to be read at the cornerstone
exercises. Gov. Miller has designated
Adjt.- Gen. ]. Lester Kincaid to repre-
sent the State and to read a message
from the Governor.
The diplomatic representatives IN
America of many foreign countries nave
ccepred the academy's invitation to
attend its events on November Is and
19. Among them are the Spanish Am
bassador. Don Juan Gayagos; saliva
or Diego, Ambassador from Mexico :
Augusta Cochrane de Alencar. Ambas-
sador from Bi azil: DR.. Beltram Mathieu,
Minister from Chile; DR.. Thomas A. LIE
Breton, Ambassador from the Argentine
Republic: DR.. Carlos A. Eureta. Min
ister from Colombia. and Manuel c.
Tellez. Charge ad-interim. Mexico.
Many OF the leading universities of
North and South America and Europe
will send representatives. including Har-
ward, Yale, Princeton, New York Uni
versity, Chicago. Iceland Stanford. Jr..
Dartmouth, Brown, Vanderbilt Lafay-
cite, Johns Hopkins. Mount Holyoke.
Columbia, University of Virginia, Uni
versity of Washington, Western Reserve.
University Of the Philippines, Reed Col
lege. Allegheny College, University Of
Pittsburgh and Iowa State Teachers
College.
rv.ut. tn Ne Snoctacular,
Preparations are being made to handle
a large crowd both at Columbia Univer-
sity and at the site Of the new academy
building. Weather permitting. the Co
lumb:a exercises will be held In South
Court, the spectacle resembling that at
which Cardinal Mercier was received.
II the weather is unfavorable the exer-
cises will be held in the rotunda Of the
library
The upper campus will be closed from
to 4 p. NJ. except to ticket holders or
officers in academic dress Admission
will be by the Earl Hall gate Admis-
sion to South Court for others than those
In the procession will be by card only.
Junior officers will not take part In the
academic procession. The general pub
lie will be admitted to 116th street and
at o'clock to the campus. At that hour
the degree will be conferred on Marshal
Foch by President Butler.
After the ceremonies at Columbia the
Marshal and his party will proceed to
the new home Of the Academy Of Arts
and Letters. where he will lay the cor
nerstone from the western end OF the
Hispanic Society terrace at 1880 p. M.
The invocation will be by DR.. Henry
Van Dyke. Robert Underwood Johnson
will extend greetings from other coun-
tries. Papers will be deposited In the
by Prof. Brander Matthews
of Columbia. chancellor Of the academy.
The dedication remarks will be by DR..
Sloane. In tho evening Marshal Foch
" III be the guest at dinner Of the France
America Society,