TATE ALUMNI WEEKLY 17 HARVARD'S DINNER. President Eliot on the War—He takes issue With Mr. Adams. At Harvard’s Commencement dinner, Wednesday afternoon, at Memorial Hail, the war was the principal theme. Fifteen hundred guests were present, and that meant cutting off a good many when the doors were closed. The opening speech of President Charles Francis Adams, to the Alumni Associations, contained very severe re- ferences to the policy of Imperialism. He referred to the difference in the cost of war and the cost of education, say- ing that the United States is spending now, in the contest with Spain, three times as much money every month as Harvard has been able to accumulate in more than two hundred and fifty years. In introducing President Eliot, Mr. Adams said that the cost of the present war, estimated at forty million dollars a month, would run three hundred and fifty-five Universities like Harvard. President Adam’s reference to the war and his comparison of the men who were serving now and those who went out in ’61, to the great disparagement of the former, who, he said, were go- ing out for conquest, and his con- temptuous references to the “glittering illusion of imperialism,” were received in solemn silence. President Eliot’s reference to the war was in the following words: “T am not sure that I should be able to follow President Adams in the line he has suggested. The quick capital of Harvard University is not more than the cost of two battleships will win? (Great applause and cheers.) It was Charles Sumner, who looks down upon us from the other side of this hall, who first made comparisons of that nature, and some years after he had made them, there came upon us the terrific strug- ele which President Adams has been describing so eloquently. About that time I came to the conclusion that the whole argument of Charles Sumner was a yicious one. (Great applause.) I have been talking with the students here for the last two months about go- ing to this war. In 1861, when I was an assistant professor here, I talked with a great many friends and com- rades who went to that war, and I want to testify that although the two wars, in their origin and their motive, can hardly be compared, the spirit which animates the youth in Harvard University is now just what it was then. oy applause and prolonged cheer- ing. “The educated youth who loves his country does not stop to consider in what precise cause his country has gone to war. If he did he could not find out. (Great laughter.) If we look back on the former wars we shall clearly see, I think, that the men who began each one of those wars had not the slightest conception of whither the war was to lead them. That is true, I believe, of every war in which this country has been engaged. And certainly in this case, when the problem was presented to the youth of the university: ‘Shall we enlist in the service of the country?’ not a man knew whither this war was immediately to lead our people. Our youth have gone to war for the sim- plest kinds of reasons. Some said: _ “The Government want 200,000 men. I[ am aman and I am free to go; I will go.’ That is a common frame of mind. Others went from mixed motives—a_ general sense of duty; a love of ad- venture; a hope to see new things, to feel new sensations; the hope of test- ing one’s self under stress, in danger imminent. And others offered their lives and their labor to the country without much thought except for love— just as a lover throws a rose at the feet of his mistress. (Loud applause.) I- doubt if there is anybody alive who can give much instruction to Harvard Uni- versity concerning true (Loud and prolonged cheering.) ———_+4—_____—- Other Commencements., Tuesday, June 28th, the Trustees of Amherst College accepted the resigna- tion of President Gates, adopting the following minute: “That the resignation of Dr. Merrill E. Gates as President of Amherst College is accepted, to take ef- fect at the expiration of his present leave of absence, and that, in accord- ance with his expressed desire to be patriotism. © Loving Cups. FOR PRIZES AND SOUVENIRS. Sterling Silver Cups with three handles. Seal eee Pint size, 6.25 =e $20) Quart size, - - $40. Larger ones, $50 upward. Cut Glass, Sterling Silver Mountings. Small, - $6, $7.50, $12. Larger ones, $30 upward. 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