Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-13
70 STUDENTS
GET DEGREES
1T UNIVERSITY
Montana Grads. Told
American Citizenship
Ideal for Europeans.
Governor Dixon Speaks
and Elliott Presents d.
plomas to Seniors.

Missoula, June 70 Seyenty-five
graduates of the University of Mon
lana received degrees at the annual
commencement of the institution here
Monday, Chancellor E. c. Elliott max
ing the presentation.
Forty were graduated from the col
lege of arts, eight in business admins
t~ration, four in journalism. three IN
forestry, nine in law and nine IN
lAarmacy. Two master of arts degrees
were awarded. .
Following the formal installation of
DIR. c. III. Clapp as president OF the
university brief addresses were deliver.
ed by Governor Joseph NJ. Dixon and
by President Alfred Atkinson OF Mon
tana State college at Bozeman.
Greetings to the graduates on behalf
of the alumni and the faculty pre-
coded the annual commencement ad-
. dress by DIR. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi-
dent Of Stanford university.
American citizenship must remain an
ideal for the European, instead OF a
symbol of selfishness and p%rOvincialism.
or else a new fight will have to be
waged to win the world the things for
which American boys died in the World
war. President Ray Lyman Wilbur of
STANFORD university declared in deliver
ing the commencement address.
Appeals for Leaders
Without our helping hand the
smoldering fires of Europe may yet
consume u.s. he said in making his
point that on the university men and
women rested the responsibility of a
leadership without which the country
would drift along on the compromises
of politicians and traders.
I'VE must take up u mission glad
ly.' President Wilbur said. 1--WE must
stand with the forces of construction
everywhere. We must not forget the
high sentiment of great services of the
past and become immersed in our own
greed and selfishness.'
The subject of the address was
American Citizenship" The speaker
said in part:
Great latent forces have been loos-
ed by the war. some good and some
bad. and we are trying to master them.
Through all we see the age-old warfare
between the forces of d~isintegration
and those of construction. Progress and
order are c~ontending with destruction
and generalization. A minority in every
country is seeking to %overturn the
existing order and to gain power over
the majority.
"Such a struggle has gone on since
the first tribal relations were estab-
lished. Those who build for the future,
those full of optimism and hope are
fighting against those who seek to de-
stroy. to uproot. to reduce life to the
level of the lowest.
with Germany's defeat we see her
place as the enemy of democracy taken
by the forces of disintegration coming
up from below. stirred largely into
action by abuses from above or by the
inherited reaction to authority that has
often been %tyrannical and resented by
the men having the love of freedom
In their hearts.
Says Danger Unnoticed
"Cowardice and politics are binding
US TO the danger about US and our
mission in the world. We Americans
are the most fortunate people on earth.
Late corners into the war, our army
and navy. added to those of our allies,
by their brilliant and soul stirring work
brought about the collapse of the Ger