Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-02-16
ORS|NUS OBSERVES
FOUNDERS DAY.
Elaborate Program Arranged
and Honorary Degrees
Are Conferred
DEGREE FOR COL. MCCAIN

rhis is Founders Day at Ursinus
',o.llese, Colleseville. Pa. An elaborate
sSdSm was arranged for this after.
'pecn and evening.
The Board Of Directors Of the col
va held their annual MIDI winter meet.
~ at o'clock, preceding the exercises.
Important matters concerning the col.
Ire camo up for discussion. :
Faculty, student body and large
amber Of invited guests assembled later
= the college auditorium for the pub.
( h exercises. ..,.- ..
The principal address. on "Tho
twentieth Century Newspaper" wan
ado BY Colonel George Nox Mccain,
q ths EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER. Fol.
isvins the address. DR.. George l.. ON.
r"Ie. rrcsident Of Ursinus, conferred
~ honorary degree Of doctor of let.
- on Colonel Mccain. DR.. Omwake
ETtsd the Citizens Association Of Fer.
iion,en Valley, Of which Colonel Nc.
Cain is president, to be present.
Sl Praise for News Writers
Colonel Mccain in his address traced
~ progress Of the twentieth century
sewspaper from little four.paGe sheet
nrinted in Boston by Richard Pierce In
lao. suppressed by the Provincial Gov
srnment because It contained reflec.
Hons Of a very high nature
The speaker alluded to the high thar
scter Of work done by individuals on
newspapers today.
daily press" he said, ''who would have
commanded exalted positions in the lit.
efsry world Of a hundred years ago.
They are artists in expression. The
fact Is recognised, and It IL for this
reason that the daily newspaper. par
ticularly its editorial page, Is being 80
widely utilized in schools today instead
Of The old fashioned reading books with
their miscellaneous selection of indif-
ierent poetry and worse prose.
1.-THE public reads its newspaper with
! no thought of the man behind it., the
EDITOR. His is the figure dimly within
the shadow, and yet he is the creative
power, who, by the dash of pencil or
the spoken word. can summon from the
ends Of the earth the facts concerning
Wey phase Of human activity.
EpN Truth Comes First
Z 'There Is no profession that demands
Il its members so much devotion and
eelf.sacrificc. The true newspaperman
soends his days in search for truth.
Because so much is expected of him, 20
criticism is the more harsh and unre.
strained when he makes an error or an
unintentional misstatement Of fact"
DR., Omwake conferred the hon.
orary degree Of doctor Of divinity on
the Rev. Kakichi TsunasRima, pastor
Of the Bancho Church in Toxic, one of
( the leading Protestant churches Of ia.
pan, who has been in tnis country as
Z representative at the Disarmament
Conference. He has been IN this coun.
try many times on missions from the
4 Christian churches Of Japan, and Is
. widely known here. ....... ...
!. /, This evening there will be tho an.
,nual family dinner" a timc.honored
{ custom, which brings together at tables
the members Of the faculty and their
wives, the student body and the invited
guests. The principal address at the
dinner will be delivered by Ralph
Beaver Strassburger, owner and pub.
Usher Of the Norristown Herald, ana
prominent in society. His father was
one Of the first graduates Of Ursinus
and q leader Of the county bar.
y, The days festivities will close with q
musicale by the Women's Club If
Ursinus.