The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-06-02
5000 Are Graduated From Columbia
Honors Also Conferred Mime. Curie and Others
DR.. Butler Warns Young Radicals

Under sky that matched her own
cession moved slowly across the uni
versity campus yesterday morning. COM
ing down the great steps of the library
and making its way to the gymnasium.
held.
Thousands waited along the line OF
march. most OF them watching for just
one face In the universitys massed
product for the year, a total of nearly
5000 men and women. But they cheered
very tired looking little woman. with
kindly, worn face, who was Nine. Marie
Curfe. She walked beside Dean Samuel
w. Lambert of the medical school. wear
ing plain black academic gown.
There was no waste ceremony about
this years ommencement-there was
just enough to give it dignity. Music, q
prayer. the address of President Butler.
the presentation, group by group of those
who received degrees. the singing of
America" and It was over.
President Buffers address to the grad
yates had for its topic Faith in the
Future" This faith, he held. Is the
only justification for human activity OF
any sort whatever. and all men who
have caught the spbit of a true uni
verstty should have 1t.
A Word for Young BoIshevists.
1T pleases some ardent and hopelessly
youthful spirits" he said, ito portray
themselves as in revolt against things as
they are, but this is not the construc-
fNrA lila L.. .t@l- L.
about the serious business of making the
world better. An appreciation of the
present and an understanding of the past
are Tar better preparation for the I'm
provement Of the future than a dissatis-
faction with the present and contempt
Tor the past can possibly be.
"Contentment is as lofty and fine a
state of mind as SNUG satisfaction Is I'M
becoming and unworthy. Faith in the
future will make use of contentment, but
II can do nothing with SNUG satisfaction.
The man whose mind Is closed against
all proposals for change, for reasonable
experiment with the unfamiliar and un-
tested. is stubbornly without faith in the
future"
After the degrees awarded for work
IN the university had been given, includ-
ing the first degrees In medicine to be
granted to women in Columbia, OF which
there were six, Prof. James Z. Kemp of
the department OF geology presented the
candidates for honorary degrees.
Tribute to Nine. Cur1e.
In awarding Nine. Curie her degree
President Butler said: "Subtly combin-
ing the characteristics nf the Slav and OF
the Latin, to whose skill. scientific in
sight and trained powers of imagination
1t has been given to enrich mankind by
the priceless gift of radium, winning
thereby a place on the immortal list OF
scientific discoveries, gladly admit you
to the degree Of Doctor Of Science in this
university
or Gov. Miller. who received the de-
gree Of Doctor Of Laws. he said: ''Tested
and tried in high public office both civil
and judicial; presenting the heartening
spectacle Of a public officer who, when
entrusted with power. does precisely
what he promised to people that he
would do If so entrusted"
John Campbell Merriam. president Of
the Carnegie Institution. and Dean Sam
uel w. Lambert of the faculty of medi-
cine were given the degree Of doctor Of