Evening star., 1937-02-23
c. v. GRADUATES
HEAR DR.. WHITE
New Educational System Is
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Chapter Installed.

AlanSOn White, superintendent OF ST.
Elizabeth's Hospital and psychiatry
professor in the university medical
school.
His was the principal address at
Constitution Hall at the university's
Winter convocation, which also was
marked by the conferring of honorary
degrees On eight internationally known
scientists and the installation of the
new university chapter of Sigma XII.
national honorary scientific. fraternity.
In emphasizing his belief the teach
ing of actual factual material is Of
minor importance, DR.. White said:
Il believe that the greatest privi-
lege that comes to the youth of this
land Is to sit under the instruction of
men Of ripe wisdom and of fine char
acter. who are capable of inspiring in
the student those qualities of curiosity
and eagerness to learn and devotion
to what they conceive to be their cali
ing in life that make the true man
hood and womanhood that we are
aiming for"
Sees Flexibility as Asset.
DR.. White said that whenever great
changes have occurred in world ide-
ologies they have been accompanied
by great tragedies, especially when
these ideologies we're political and
economic.
If only the flexibility of youth could
be retained somewhat longer or in
somewhat larger measure, these
changes could be more readily nego-
tiated. The youth should be taught
the historical development of ideas
and precepts. the ideologies and meth
odologies of politics and economics-in
short, the history of the growth of
ideas and feelings, Of the changes of
thinking, the alterations of concepts
which have come to pass during his
torical times"
! OF the eight scientists who received
honorary degrees from DR.. Cloyd Heck
Marvin, president of the university, six
are now connected with Washington
institutions. DR.. White was on of those
honored. The honorary degree of doc
| tor of laws was conferred on him and
two others-Dr. Edward Ellery, dean
of the faculty of Union College, and
DR.. John Campbell Merriam, president
of the Carnegie Institution of Wash
ington.
Others Receive Degrees.
Honorary degrees of doctor of science
were received by the following: DR..
Charles G.. Abbot, secretary of the
Smithsonian Institution: DR.. Paul
Bartsch. curator of the molluskS divi-
sion National Museum DR.. George B.
Pegram. physics professor at Columbia
University; Dr. William Bowie. director
OF the division of geodosy, Coast and
Geodetic Survey, and DR.. Lyman J.
Briggs. director OF the Bureau of
Standards.
In a brief address preceding the con-
ferring Of the degrees, President Mar
vim said
In recognition of the milestone set
up by the establishment of Sigma XII
chapter at the university the trustees
felt it would be most appropriate to
select outstanding Washington scien-
lists and other leaders in that field for
this honors"
Charter Presented.
installation OF the university chapter
OF the society was announced by DR..
Pegram, acting for the national presi-
dent of the Sigma Xi. The petition for
the chapter-the sixty-ninth-wa
read by DR.. BarIsch, and its charter
was presented by DR.. Ellery, national
secretary of the society.
The formal installation ceremonies
were presented yesterday afternoon by
the nomination of so workers in the
field of science for election to the So
ciety, which took place at the Cosmos
Club. Forty-three members of the uni
versity faculty, who are members of
the Sigma XII chapters at the uni
versities where they received their de-
grees. will be charter members of the
new branch.
The convocation opened with
musical program and the academic
procession in which marched uni
versity dignitaries and the graduates
in their taSsled caps and black gowns
tinged with scarlet, orange, blue or
green. The invocation was pronounced
by Rev. Joseph S. Loughran.
President Marvin told the graduating
class to be honest, open-minded and
to live so that your integrity will guar
antee to your fellow men the principle
of living"
Delegates Appointed.
Delegates appointed by 81 chapters
of the society of Sigma XII in colleges
and universities throughout the coun-
try to attend the convocation were the
following:
Union, DR.. Ellery; Yale, Lynde P.
Wheeler; Minnesota, Ruth Elmquist;
Nebraska, Alice NJ. Andersen; Penn
sylvania. John M. Fogg, jr; Brown,
Philip H. Mitchell; Iowa, Chester E.
Leese; California, Carl C. Kiess;
Columbia. Clarence N. Fenner; Chi
cago, Joseph S. Caldwell; Michigan,
Herbert o. Calvery; Case. Charles B.
Hawley; Missouri, Walter w. SWEET.
Colorado, Hugh L. Logan; Wisconsin,
Aaron G. johnson.
University of Washington, Kenneth
T. Williams; District of Columbia,
William Bowie; Texas, Oscar B. Will
liams; Idaho. Arthur M. Sowder;
Swarthmore, Henry J. Creighton; Vir-
ginia, Joseph K. Roberts; Arizona,
Homer L. Shantz; Maryland. Albert L.
Schrader; Kansas State, Charles H.
Scholer; Pennsylvania State, Thomas
B. Keith: State College of Washington,
T. Lowell Swenson; Western Reserve,
Charles r. Linegar; Princeton. Rudolph
Kaufman, I'd; Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology, Ralph Ilsley;
Tulane, Elizabeth A. Bridgeman;