Norwich bulletin., 1921-10-20
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS AT THE
 COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY

Williamsburg Va, Oct. 19=President Harding was given the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the College of William and Mary today at exercises of installation of Dr. J. A. c. Chandler as president of the institution.
 MT. Harding. in an address. appea, ed for increased patriotic attention to the national educational system and praised the part played in American history by the institution. which is the second old est college of the country and among Ehose graduates are numbered three presidents of the United States.
 Before coming here. the president de- | livered al address from the spot in Yorktown where Lord Cornwallis sur rendered the British forces of the rev. olution to General Washington in 17S1 and announced to the world a policy of anglo-American friendship for all fu- ture time.
 He spoke a'so a word of gratitude | for the aid given by France in the rev olution and declared the time had come for worldwide cooperation and amity among nations.
 That part of the Yorktown speech devoted to British-American relations was in the form of a brief declaration of policy on which the president did not elaborate.
 'The triumph of freedom in the American colonies" he said, greatly strengthened liberal views in the Old World. Inevitably this liberal pub 'ic opinion. deliberate and grown domi- nant brought Great Britain and Amer ica to a policy of accommodation and Ipacffc adjustment for all our differ .ences.
 There has been honorable and un | 1 we came to common sacrifice and en sanguined association in the World war and a future breachj of our peaceful ant frient.y relations Is unthinka.ble. In the trusteeship of preserving civiliza- tion we were naturally arrayed togeth
 CT and the convictions of a civilization worthy of that costly preservation vii exalt peace and warn against confiic for all time to come"
 Tn the general discussion of world
 relations which followed, the presiden declared American participation il world affairs inevitable" and voiced hope that general cooperation "to tn common good" would usher in ney day of international relationship. H sounded a warning. however. agains
 impairment of national sovereignty fl
 the name of International unity.
  l Ham and Mary exercises from all col I leges in the country more than 10 ! years old and honorary degrees were al so conferered on fudge Alton B. Parke
 democratic candidate for president fl
 1904, and on Governor Westmorelan n Davis, of Virginia.
 $ President. Harding. in academic robe n headed the procession around the co = Iege campus prior to the exercises whic q were held in the alcove of the Wren
 building, the oldest college hall in tf
 country still in daily use. It was buf !. in 1894.
 F Later he went to Jamestown, the eit d Of the first English settlement in Amel V lea, and placed wreath on the gray IF of Governor Yard'ey. who in 16ls cal
 ed the first legislative assembly to
 held on this continent
 The president and Mrs. Harding, a II companied by a party of high goverl mental officials. made the trip fror ' Washington to Yorktown on the pres D denial yacht Mayflower. l. From Yorktown the party motored
 Lee HaM, where they boarded SD cial train for the short run to William m burg.
 III Late in the day the chief executi' io visited various historic scenes in Yorl II town, inspecting landmarks of thr' III wars. He interested himself in mar
 details of the part Yorktown played
 the refuge of Cornwalis, bait In ground of union and confederate armi l. and finally as headquarters for the A "a lantic fleet in the World war. l. In the presidents party were fo' n, cabinet members, Secretaries Hughe t. Mellon. Weeks and Hoover. Leavil
 Yorktown tonight on the Mayfower, t
 party is to reach the capital early t le morrow morning.
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