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SENORRANEZ MSPIRED TO WRITE NOVELS ABOUT U. S. Responds to Laudatory Re? marks of President Colt lier of G. W. U.

Senor Vicente Blasco Ibanex, author of the most famous novel of the world Four Horsemen of the a fresh taste of American enthusiasm and hospitality when he. with Herbert Hoorfr. Senator William M. Calder and Franklin MacVeagh. received an honorary degree at the midwinter convocation of George Washington University at Central High School Auditorium yesterday afternoon.

The author showed a lively Interest in the manner and spirit of the applause bestowed especially upon him and Mr. Hoover by the huge audience, and It was apparent he had caught much of its Are When, after the colors of the doctorate of letters had been draped over his shoulders, ho made an address on "The Best Novel lif the After the preliminary exercises Senator Calder spoke on "The Duties and Opportunities of the Hour." Academic and graduate degrees were conferred upon a number of students, including several women Senator Mr. Hoover and Mr. MacVeagh then received the honorary capes of doctor of laws, and Senor Ibanex came last. Seaor Ibanes.

In conferring the degree on Senor Ibanes Dr. William Miller Collier, president of the university, who pre-i "aided, made a highly laudatory adflrst in English, then in to sure In what I say, 1 am the faithful interpreter of the sentiments act only of the trustees, councilors and professors of the university and Us than four thousand in also of the people of this great city, the nation's capital." he said. "Moreover their greetings and words of praise are hut the faint echo of the swelling chorus that has voiced the admiration aatertained for you by the whole American people, from ocean to ocean. joa have traveled across the continent. Our hearts were heavy when wa heard of your recent severe Illness.

We rejoice that you have been reestablished in health. We are delighted that you are with us today. have ever exhibited a worldWide breadth of sympathies. You Ian understood the pervading spirit ef the times. Tou have stirred the hearts and moved the souls of men of all races and all climes.

In your relations with the peoples of other nations you have always been, to use a vary familiar but very slgnlflant Spanish expression, "muy sympatlco." A lover of universal freedom and of OQual opportunities for all, you feel, am did the Roman poet, that nothing which pertains to mankind is foreign te you. We greet you. then, as a gloat Win Write of Halted States. Declaring that for the last three he had been the object of great demonstrations of sympathy aad admiration everywhere In the Vaited States. Senor Ibanes said: This honor which you have conferred upon me 1 shall repay in the Manner that a novelist can best repay.

I shall write several novels to describe the monstrous greatness of Maw York city, the noble distinction Washington, the industrial activity of the eastern and central states, and the poetic and romantic beauty of those which border on the Pad Be. I try to reproduce faithfully the greatness of my model, but I feel sure that I will not succeed. Consider haw ambitious is my plan! The Halted States Is today, after having aaved the world in the recent war, the lift nation of the earth. To be worthy of the greatness of this nation, Mir novels would have to be the greatWt novels ever written, and this task is far above my litarary Turning then to the subject of his the speaker outlined the hlstsry of literary growth and influences la civilised Europe which at length crystallised In the Iberian peninsula la the production of the Cervantes classic. "Don Quixote." Of this first peal novel.

Senor Ibanes said: "Don Quixote is in a class by itself, i Quixote lives and will continue to MEMBERTCP OUR EXPERT CLEANERS ready to give their best attention to your clothes and household We also specialize on DYEING Uniformly i h-class work at reasonable prices. 8 8 Hoffman Co. Main Ottca 735 13th St. N.W. Phono Main 10061 Bm Sow It's igpniiinnmmiiiniiiiiimimniiimin Bellevue DINNERSl rAre Gaining in Popularity Fall Coarse Dinner 85c Economy Dinner 65c Served From 4:30 to 7:31 Pastries Delivered Phone Main 3323 Bellevue Farms Lunch Co.

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live throughout the ages as long- as the world has readers. Don Quixote does not need the approval and recommendation of Uie centuries to be liked and admired. Give It to an unlettered reader without telling him the name of the author or the history of the book and he will laugh and be touched to the quick from the very first chapters. Don Quixote has been until now the first among the novels, and centuries will roll by before it will drop (to seoo.id place. All the literatures of the woi id are shot through with Its 'spirit.

All the most famous characters I of fiction, no matter where they may have been born, are the sons, grandchildren. or, at least, the nephews of the heroic hidalgo created by Cervantes, Dickens' Plekwick. Daudet's Tartarin and many other immortal characters would not exist today if Cervantes had failed to create three ago his Manchegan Knight. Hon ICeaieBS Book. "Such greatness is easily accounted for.

Don Quixote la not a book; It is something more than a famous book: it lies yond what we commonly call literature it is simply life made eternal in printed words, in the same manner (hat Las Meninas of Velaquex is not merely a painting but more than that, life in color and lines, and innhe same way that the Ninth Symphony of Bee1 thoven is not music but the supreme conception of humanity expressed in sounds and harmony. "The great secret of genius is the power of synthesis and condensation, the faculty of producing a work which may be the perfect symbol and expression of a phase of life or of the whole at life. In this respect Cervantes stands above all other literary geniuses. His book is simply synthesis of the whole of life. He created Don Quixote, he created Sancho Panza: after this we may say: There is nothing left to be "Whoever we may be, we shall And no room outside of these two classifications either we are Don Quixote or we are Sancho, and if we are not strictly one or the other It Is because we are both of them at the same time, acting In our eternally Irregular and illogical life, now with altruism and idealism, now with selfishness vulgar aims." Tasks PuUx Hittaa.

Senator Haider in his speech dwelt upon the tasks that face the nation In the immediate future. "More than a year has elapsed since the signing ef the we are looking to IEXOR VICENTE BLASCO Spuhk narrllit, antkor of "Tie Fwi Hanrmra of tke A poolj jit SENATOR WILLIAM M- CALDER of New York. the future with much he said, and continued: "We do well, however, to seek assurance that the nation's future has for Its citizenship established justice. Injured domestic tranquillity, maintained the common defense and secured the blessings of liberty. The fathers declared these were the objects demanding the creation of this government.

and if no competent cause for the destruction of these of government is to be seen, let us take courage and go forward with the tasks of today. "A nation, no more than a man, can come from terrific struggle and titanic expenditure of energy, justly hoping to resume immediately the even tenor of its life. Strong and vigorous men, attacked by disease, spend months in finding again the strength that was theirs. Likewise the nation, plagued by war and compelled to meet the plague with every ounce of national energy, must go through the days of convalesence which seem at times unending. As a nation we canDot escape the aftermath of complete organic disturbance.

The national MACVEAGH, Farmer Secretary art tkt Treaavr. mind will not In a moment lose the fiery feirer brought by war, but ronfnsion of thought will diminish and cease In time if the consequences of war are accepted as hardens to be borne by the body politic before it can function normally." Dearreea Are Conferred. Immediately after he spoke, degrees in courses were conferred as follows: Bachelor of Swayne Brown and Lewis Maxwell Llde, Din irlct of Columbia, ud Nuh Oliver, Texaa Bachelor of science In medicine? "WillLam Clifford Gardner, Pennsylnnlt. Bachelor of Henry Carter, Iowa; Elmer Logan Corbln, Illinois; John Wesley Davis, Iowa; Highland Righter Johns. Pennsylvania: Lewis Mayers.

New York; Henry Miller, Kentucky; George Henry Paltridge. District of Columbia; Paul Edgar ahorb, North Dakota, and John Pride Tomlinson, Tennessee. Master of Valvern Denlt and Herbert Clarence Fooks, District of Columbia. Master of Wei Mln, China; Laura Wlnfleld Stever, District of Columbia. Master of Carl Gsantner and Margaret Hertha SehoenfelU, District of Columbia; Yung-Chlng Yang, China.

Doctor of Klvove. Thomas Elliott Snyder and Frank Alexander Wetmore, District of Columbia. At the ginning of the eTerdses the audience stood while a corps of students presented the President Collier recited the salute to the flag and "The American's Creed" as a tribute to the memory of George Washington. The convocation was marred by the poor arrangements which had been made to accommodate the large audience. Hundreds of persons stood in the rain outside the building for an hour before the doors were opened, and seats that had been reserved for, ticket holders were Oiled beforehand by a crowd that overwhelmed the Senator Calder was lost in the crush, and it was necessary to page him from the stage before the exercises could proceed.

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