Judge Horace Stern, noted Jewish leader, was the principal speaker and the recipient of the degree of Doctor of Laws at the graduation exercises of the University of Pennsylvania here today.
Presenting the diploma to Judge Stern, Dr. Thomas S. Gates, president of the University said in part:
“Horace Stern, President of the Court of Common Pleas, graduate of the College of the University of Pennsylvania and of its law school, for eleven years a lecturer in that school, and for the past five years a member of the University Board of Trustees. Lawyer, learned Judge, humanitarian, your services as a citizen of Philadelphia to your fellowmen, your breadth of vision and your far-seeing understanding in the interpretation of the law, your self-sacrificing work in philanthropy, have brought distinction to yourself which you have carried with gracious modesty, and honor to the University of which you are an alumnus.”
Characterizing himself “as an eager spectator of life’s parade,” Judge Stern in his address, touched on “the needs of our troubled world today.” He prescribed a “threefold prescription”. First, he said, there is need of “faith in one another and in our institutions; second, the encouragement of the creative rather than the possessive instinct; and third, a proper recognition of human solidarity.”
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