Evening Star Newspaper, February 23, 1930, Page 10

‘A—10 CITES DEMANDS | OF CIVILIZATION Dr. Coffman Tells G. W. Graduates of University’s Responsibilities. Civilization’s progress demands morf‘ tndustry, organization and science, man is to become master of hlmsel( and not the slave of the machine, Lotus Delta Coffman, president of the Uni-, versity of Minnesota, advised the 71 graduates of George Washington Uni- versity as they received their degree in eourses at the institution’s midyear eonvocation in Constitution Hall last night. Dr. Coffman, who received the hon: Brary degree of doctor of science in edu cation at the same commencement exer- cises, reviewed the expansion of knowl- rige and a university’s responsibilities toward meeting the challenge which that progress entails, and concluded: “Mot less industry, but more; not less organization, but more; not less science, but more, is what we need, if industry &nd organization and science are dedi- caled to making man master of himself and not the slave of the machine. In the final analysis, the only poverty that 1s odious to face is the poverty of life tself.” Dr. Coffman recalled that unversi- ties have been compared to lighthouses, the light of which radiates to dispel darkness; to dynamos whose power lines reach every community, and to factories which are more interested in quantity than in quality. He asserted, Sowever, that a university consists of omething more than a =single sei of Znctors: that “by its very name, as weil &S by its nature, it is universal in pur- pose and in scope.” “Lighthouses Must Be Taller.” “It sheds light.” he declares developes new power, and it transmits knowledge. But the light it radiates, the power it develops and the knowl- édge it transmits do not remain fixed and unchanging generation after gen- eration. The lighthouses must be built taller, the dynamos more powerful and knowledge must be disseminated over | wider and wider areas if progress is | to be made. Continuing, Dr. Coffman declared that the function of the university is not to preserve the past, “but to train a generation of youth for the work of a new day, and unless their very atmosphere is surcharged with the spirit of unrest and intellectual dis- satisfaction, they soon become hoary objects of tradition and reverence rather than the instruments of rogr! pCommem.i.n upon the contributions of science to tne neld of knowledge, Dr. Coffman contended that educators never walked so humbly as they do today. ‘The ability to think, he said, is what it always has been, but scholarship and a working knowledge of many fields re- quires more effort than ever before and, he added, there are few who attain it. New power, he explained, has liberated man’s mind and emancipated him from much ancient drudgery, and manifests itself in the existence of countless ma- chines which now do man's work for him. With the industrial transforma- tion the Minnesota university president declared has come organization on & grand scale through which specializa- tion of function has arisen. Relations Being Altered. “The relations of men in every walk of life are being altered,” Dr. Coffman asserted. “Apparently we shall soon be l s.]ined nation depending largely jon rather than upon mdxvidull resourcefulness for our live- lihood. The center of gravity of human interest has been shifting from politics to economics and from individual enter- prise to vast organization. The danger is that men will fall victim to routine types of work and develop clerical minds. Efficiency is the modern pagan god before whom they bow in order that dividends may be paid.” Declaring that people have turned to schools, colleges and universities for guidance in the midst of the release of human energy and spiritual forces which the new economic freedom has brought about, Dr. Coffman contended that these institutions “must live in an | atmosphere of freedom, undominated and uncontrolled by any particular group or interest; they must be free to seek the truth and to teach it, free to study and in interpret the forces of life and to expound them, otherwise they cannot be lighthouses or dynamos for those who seek light or desire power.” Besides Dr. Coffman, an honorary degree—that of doctor of laws—was conferred upon Col. Harrison Howell Dodge, superintendent of Mt. Vernon. In presenting Dr. Cofiman with the hnorary doctorate of science in educa- tion, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George Washington University, char- acterized him as “teacher, scholar, lover of mankind; a leader in whom wisdom and virtues are one; an administrator Another Couple Made Happy Mrs. E. Fitzgerald. Mrs. Fitzgerald, who resides at 747 | 10th st. se., Apt. 2, says only true | happiness comes with perfect health, that is why she praises Miller's Herb Extract (formerly called Herb Juice). Yes, she said, I know what it is to suffer; not only that but I watched my husband take medicine for years | without getting relief from rheu- | .matic pains, headaches, stomach dis- | orders and chronic constipation, but | I was just as bad off with pains | through my back, stomach out of order and the muscles in my-legs cramping and drawing until I could hardly stand the . 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Likening involuntary actions in the lives of men to imprints in age-old rock, made by long extinct animals casually passing over new earth in a prehistoric era, Dr. Marvin, declared that these movements usually made the fundamental impressions on society. “Time not only proves that which is useful to mankind, but with certainty selects and depicts each action of those who live.” Dr. Marvin advised the graduates. “Usually,” he continued, “the action referred to as native or in- stinctive, naturally resulting from strict discipline of days that are past, is most significant. “Standing on a projecting stratum of | fundamental impressions in THE SUNDAY rock that long since had been cut through by the Colorado River, I looked down at the footprints made by some animal so long since forgotten that there is no memory of him or his kind,” Dr. Marvin declared. “As he made the tracks, along with the herd with whllél‘lmhe(';‘a ;Asoc he was ug- min of the footprints that he made in Y.het;cil;‘l ‘Those o its are I’lo\:l stone, ying of his existence an helping to describe the life of that geriod The thoughts that motivated is activities were most important to him, but they are forgotten and cnly the ruumnl umm hu lett its imprint. £ who are accepting the mponslblll'.lu that come with formal education, it must be borne in mind that usually involuntary actions of life, depending upon how well you | have schooled yourselves in times past, are those that are going to leave the in soclety. It is not given to many to make per- manent impressions upon life through well thought out answers to grave " problems. It is my earnest hope that Quality That Endures } STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., our nconl may tell a qj night's with an invocation by Rev, nfi-’d Hollister, pastor of the mnvy Chase Presbyterian Church. Deans Present Graduates. The candidates for the degrees counewenmkdlflmdumo! the various schools and as follows, Dean Charles E. of Education and Dean N. Hen- ning for '.he GM“I!Q School of Letters and Scien Degr as follows: Columbian College—Bachelor of arts: Jean MacBurney An'o'lm!th. Pennsyl- vania; Alice Morton District of Columbia (with dinl.lncunn Catharine Thackeray Bannerman, Vi Ann Barsky, District of Col distinction) ; Colorado; land; Samuel Columbia; lumbia (with Philip Fletcher Bell, Norman L. Benzing, Mary- Bl'-ml‘n District of James H. Beals an, . | Jose Balanon Martinez, Frieda | FEBRUARY 23, 1930—PART ONI&. District of Columbia; Maurice Yale Byer, New Jersey; Forrest Moore Car- mack, New Jersey; Leon Jack Conn, |y, vu-glnu Grade Marle Eddy, Wiscon- | lin G. Eiker, District of Columbh Abner Prank, District of Columbia: Isadore Freidson, Virginia; Rebecca Rosenblum, District of Colum- bia (with distinction). Master of arts in education: Lee Eyster Gilbert, lnryhnd‘ Chester H. Lynn Frank Cavenaugh, North Carolina; District of Golumbia; District of Columbia; uw-ru Claude Frances Evelyn Held, District of Colum- | Johnson, V! ia; Howard bia; Catherine M-nl Houck, District | Indiana: Harold Matthews _LaFont, of Columbia; Meyer Koch, New York; | Missouri; Samuel Levine, District of Thomas Augustine McOarthy, Montana: | Columbia; Charles Edward M-hone!. 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Oklahoma; _Allen Oklahoma; Willlam James Wade, linois; Joseph G. Whitehouse, New Mexico; Thomas George Willls, Colo- rado. Master of laws: George Russel Carl- an, District of Columbia, and Aaron Louis Shalowitz, District of Columbia. School of Engineering—Bachelor of | School of Education—Bachelor of arts (s®¢nce in electrical engineering: James in education: Willlam Bradford, Vir-|Haliday Barnard, District of Columbia. ginia; Helen LeHew Brink, District of | Division of Library Science—Bachelor Law School—Bachelor of laws: |Columbia; Jessie Coope, District of |of arts in library science: Harriet Louise Entrance—909 F St Charles Wade Barrick, Illinois; Fay | Columbia; Mildred St. Martin Percy, | Sanger, District of Columbia (with dis- Louise Bentley, Illinois; Ernest Denning | District of Columbia (with distinction); ! tinction). Quality That Endures GERMAN FIRM APPROVES DIVIDEND OF 9 PER CENT Company to Increase Capital to 200,000,000 Marks Through New Stock Issue. 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