DELEGATES FROM WHOLE WORLD CROWD SANDERS

In a ceremony replete with all the color that scarlet, golden threaded, ermine-collared robes slashed with white and green could give it, 567 delegates from every state in the Union and 40 foreign countries were received by Pres-Conant in Sanders Theatre.

Hopes of the Future

When the half a thousand delegates had filed across the stage in Sanders Theatre, each one being personally received by Conant, who was dressed in a sombre black gown, the President of the University made his welcoming address in which he said.". . . Almost a hundred years ago Ralph Waldo Emerson, speaking of the American scholar declared that 'the scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.' In this troubled century the burden is to be borne not by one individual or by one group but by those who live in many lands. . . In this unquiet modern world which inventions have compressed to the size of Emerson's America we have need not so much for the America scholar as for the mutual understanding of a multitude of scholars in every country who will take up into themselves all the hopes of the future.'"

Search for Truth

Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines.

"But if knowledge liberates man, no barrier, political, religious, or social, should be crected to stop the search for truth. It may well be your pride that you have always fought uncompromisingly for the maintenance of the principle of freedom of research."

On the restrum were the Board of Overseers, the Corporation, President Conant and President-emeritus Lowell, Jerome D. Greene, Director of the Tercentenary, and the deans of the faculties.