TATE ALUMNI WEEKLY
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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.)
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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
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relieved of the heavy burden which he
has borne for these last years, he is
hereby relieved of all further responsi-
bility for the administration of the Col-
lege from the present announcement.”
A Committee has been appointed to
consider the matter of securing a new
President. President Gates is to con-
tinue in office, nominally, nearly a year,
and it was not thought proper to offer
the appointment of anybody else until
the end of term. :
Trinity College, Hartford, celebrated
its seventy-second Commencement on
Thursday, June 30th. Honorary de-
grees were conferred as follows:
“Doctor of Laws—Rev. Joel Foote
Bingham, D.D., Yale Lecturer in Trin-
ity College. Doctor of Divinity—Rev.
William Benham, B.D., honorary canon
of Canterbury and Boyle Lecturer,
London, Eng.; Rev. William Henry
Lewis, Trinity, 65, M.A., Rector of St.
John’s Church, Bridgeport, Conn.”
At Bates College, the honorarv de-
gree of LL.D. was conferred on J. R.
Savage, Judge of the Maine Supreme
Court.
Please hurry to this office every scrap
of war news about Yale men which comes
your way. Put im every detail you can.
Please send this news as fast as it comes
to you. It is especially necessary to get tt
promptly.
Football Training.
No regular Summer practice for the
Football squad of next Fall has as yet
been decided upon, for it has been im-
possible so far to secure a permanent
coach, who would be desirable. The
following men however have been noti-
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VACATION.
foe STRAW HAT suggests it.
Exams. are long since over. The
Baccalaureate is well-nigh forgotten
in our outing plans, while Alumni
Hall and your course in Social Science
or Medieval History has lost all inter-
est. The race even has about given
place to ‘“‘Where are you going?”
June is over, ’98 has bade their
good-byes to Yale.
For all of us a turn of the year is at
hand. ‘A change and a rest”? is in
the air, and there are very few who
will not find their road leading out
into the country before long. <A
month, or a week, or a day; “ furrin
parts,” the sea, or the mountains, it
may be no more than the country ~
just beyoud the city’s gates; but
wherever or however it comes, it is
for all a time of lazy enjoyment, each
in his own way, and the work there-
after runs infinitely better for it.
Vacation is aS necessary for man as
work is for the world, and the way to
get the most out of it. is to take it
whole-heartedly, and don’t even think
66 shop.”
There is one thought though that
may well enough go with us, and that
is of a certain gentleman who takes
no vacation. He is an old man, too,
a gray-bearded old man who needs a
rest—but he is ever at work in his
fields, scythe in hand. However
broad the swath that lies behind, no
year in all the past has yet brought
rest for him.
Scarcely one of us but has heard
the swish of his blade in some neigh-
bor’s field. It may have been the
harvest of a dear friend or a loved
relation which has been garnered.
And though it is seldom spoken of,
we all know that sooner or later he.
will surely come for us.
This thought, not wholly pleasant,
is not suggested here to throw any
damper on your time of relaxation
and rest; not to play the skeleton at
the feast. It is merely that one may
realize the inevitable in time, and
provide as far as possible that the
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