Barnard College - Mortarboard Yearbook (New York, NY)

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REAL PORTRAITS Intellectual progress is dangerous when it is entirely an inner process, lacking contact with the world of reality. In Pater ' s portrait of Sebastian Van Storck, imaginary though it be, there is a poig- nant realistic glimpse of an inner life of intellectual strivings. We have sensed his melancholy, his longing to break away from the abstract facts of hard, dry reasoning, the call of humanity urging him to bring his inner life into a closer contact with the outer world, and his utter loneliness when the pillars of the outer world faded, and left only transitory gleams of light, beautiful, but then felt to be dim and unreal. But we have only sensed these moods — sensed them just enough to realize that we have escaped them. We do not feel, like Sebastian, that to be of service to the world, we must give up our lives. We have faith that we are constructing a world of greater life, of greater beauty, and of greater under- standing. This faith comes from an external guidance, which provides a real and stabilizing link with the outer world. It comes from the older spirits of those about us, who reflect and magnify our striv- ings, and who give reality and beauty to the goal we are seeking. They are not what might be attained, or shadowy visions of an unreal life. They are what has been attained. They are real portraits. 1 15]

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President NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER A.B., Columbia, 1882; A.M., 1883; Ph.D., 1884; LL.D., Syracuse, 1898; Tulane, 1901; Johns Hopkins, Princeton, Yale, and University of Pennsylvania, 1902; Chicago, 1903; Manchester and St. Andrews, 1905; Cambridge, 1907; Williams, 1908; Harvard and Dartmouth, 1909; Brown, 1914; Toronto, 1915; Wesleyan, 1916; J.U.D., Breslau, 1911; D. Litt., Oxford, 1905; Jur. D., University of Strasbourg, 1919; Officier de la Legion D ' Honneur, 1906; Commandeur, 1912; Com- mander of the Red Eagle (Prussia), 1910; Grand Officer of the Royal Order of the Redeemer of Greece, First Class, 1918; Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sava (Serbia), First Class, 1919; Vice-President of the Congress of the Royal Institute of Public Health, London, 1920; Honorary Member of Augusta (Ga.) Bar Association, 1920; Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1911; Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and of the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace; President of the Association for International Conciliation (American Branch); 1885, Assistant in Philosophy; 1887, Tutor; 1888, also Lecturer on History and Institutes of Education ; 1889, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, ] Ethics and Psychology; 1890, Professor of same, also Lecturer on Education; 1895, Professor of Philosophy and Education; 1890, Dean of Faculty of Philosophy; 1900 and 1901, Director of Summer Session; 1902, President of the University.