Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1931, Page 6

CLASS OF 80 GIVEN DEGREESATG.W. L. Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart De- livers Convocation Address to Graduates. SMITHS NDS U ST n&s 4'2":'4’4“ C Biographers “who are trying to make a reputation and a bank account by throwing filth at the statues of the great” will be remembered as “literary curfosities,” Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart, historian of the George Washington Bicentennial Commuslon declared last night in the convocation address at the graduation of 80 George Washington University students in Constitution Hall. Dr. Hart, speaking on “Washington and Lincoln,” traced the differences and the similarities between the two emi- nent figures in the history of the United States. While one was born to wealth and culture in the seat of Colonial aris- tocracy, the other, Lincoln, was reared in strife for existence on a bleak fron- tier. While Washington was capable of Thie cold tablet has a larg. A roputation sales of all the other acquired through coldtablets § 0 yours of in- ternational merit, Ask for Grove’s Laxative BROMO QU!NINE Tablets making a Union, Lincoln was strong enuugh to preserve it, he said. “Most_candid and informed Ameri- cans,” Dr. Hart asserted, “will a ree that the two greatest figures in the tory of the United States have been Washington and Lincoln. Each of them was the leader of our Nation in the time THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGLON, of terrible stress. Each of pealed to his countrymen wtth his pen Each of them had warm and devoted adherents and also unflinching enemies.” Raps “Debunkers.” Continuing, Dr. Hart said: “Unfortunately, both men, so able, so high-minded, so patriotic, so beloved, have been made targets for volleys of slime. In Washington's lifetime the sooundrel Calendar slandered and villi- fied the Father of His Country. In his litetime Lincoln was exposed to the foulest abuse by a part of the American press. Both moved on untarnished, and now, 130 years after Wash! 's death and 66 years after Lincoln's death, both have been made the targets for a school of so-called ‘debunking biog- raphers.’ " Hart cited the Washingtdn biog- rlnhlu by John Marshall and WMh ington Irving and the Lincoln “lives” by Nicolay and Hay as sincere portrayals of the two men. Now, he continued, comes a group of “self-styled historians who set out to make money out of an attempt to debase Washington and Lincoln.” Motives Are Supplied. “These false, misleading and slimy writers,” he asserted, “resorted to two literary tricks from page to page. first is to quote and to enlarge and to roll under their tongues like sweet mor- sels all the incidents en.lhlilhed or in- vented which they can find to the dis- credit of these two great men. 'l'h!y make no allowance for the differences of times and customs, for the rawness of the frontier or for errors of judgment which beset even the great. “Their second method is to read into their accounts of incidents undoubtedly true some kind of black and nasty mo- | tive. In the three volumes of one of ‘The | own hands, D “Tha these writers have been observed and noted not less than 700 statements about George Washington that are derogatory, are intended to lower the reader's opin- ion of Washington, and the greater part of these critici g0 back not to what was said or done, but to what the biog- rapher thinks might have been the inner motive. Therefore Washington is held up as a philanderer, a money screw, a pretender, a weak man who breaks down, not because there is proof of his breaking down, but because to the mind of the blographer that is what men under such circumstances usually do.” Until recently, Dr. Hart continued, Lincoln fared more fortunately at the hands of the ‘“debunkers,” partly, he contended, “because s0 many men still live who remember the greatness of Lincoln.” “But,” he added, “his most recent biographers do not hesitate to accuse him of following false gods throughout his life, of falsifying the record political opponents, of being animated by personal and sectional hatreds, of being a liar, a despot and an enemy to the welfare of his country.” Will Be “Curiosities.” Oiting the mass of documentary evi- dence written by contemporaries of ‘Washington and Lincoln and by their r. Hart concluded: nk God we have the records made at the time by the hands of Washington and Lincoln and those who were most closely associated with them as friends and coadjutors. Thank God these little fellows who are trying to| make a reputation and a bank account | by throwing fiith at the statues of the great will later come to be literary curi- osities, valued by collectors as being the worst of their kind, the most pretentious and the most venomous.” ‘The convocation was preceded by an AV D. C, TuksDAY, organ recital by John Russell Mason md was hunzbed the academic somery eh use of Rep- resentatives, pillu!ned the invocation. Dr. William Allen Wflbur provost of the university, g:un he candidates for degrees to Cloyd )!ech Marvin, president, who conferred the degrees After the degrees had been vruenud Dr. Marvin made his charge to graduates. Dr. Marvin told them a need had developed for worthwhile individuals to order their lives in relation to the social good. He declared wise leader- ship s not in contending vocally for any cause. “The first attitude,” he declared, “to realign our democratic institutions is that they may meet the purposes for which they were developed.” Those who received degrees are as follows: - Degrees were conferred as follows: Columbian College. Bachelor of arts—C. Frederic Andrus, with distinction (special honors in botany); Willlam Henry Beard, jr.; Caroline Wilcox Praser, Melvin Sidney Prazier, Vernon Allen Prazier, Kath- erine E. Heinold, Andrew Hendrickson, Cora Lee Hilbert, Roy Charles Hoff- man, Paul Thomas Howard, Myrtilla Herrick McGraw, Mary Rutherford Mathis, Mary Helen Milkie, Gerald Herman Peterson, Eugenia Herbert Protzman, Elizabeth Hill Ramage, Lil- Rubenstein, Thomas Hardie Seay, udjhan Nadji Sipahi, H. Kenneth oot, Monica Catherine Snyder, Brad- ford Swqpe, Claudia Thomson and Vivian Harner Ward. Bachelor of science—Marjorie Theo- dora Leighey. Master of arts—Paul Bradt, Harriet the FruBRUARY 24, 1ysl. O'Neall Cheatham, Elsle Caroline cock, Frances Evelyn Held, Arlin Rex Johnson, Elsie Snow ‘Vernon Dnumn and Truss Urias | Weadon. Northrop u umr of science—Haszel Alva Bor- den, Wallace LeRoy Hall and Ruth Jackson. School of Law. Gordon Ralph Wllldo Woodrufft and Laurence Carter Wright. School of Engineering. Bachelor of sclence in meuhlnwtl engineering—Enoch Wellford Mason. School of Education. Bachelor of arts in education—Fern H Bowes (with distinction), Florence Vireinia Vivginta,_Maphis Coftman, ° Dorothy n, Crist, Dora Katherine Currie, 666 LIQUID or TABLETS Cure Colds, Headaches, Fever 666 SALVE CURES BABY’S COLD , | trose Hie izabeth Crosby FPisher, Alice O. McCauley (with distinction), Emma Jane Maloney and Leafy Margaret Master of arts—Rosa Folau, Ella A. Hanft, Mary Kochka, Vera Rebekah Parker Maury Weldon Thompson. School of Government. 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