New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-28

Bridge who nas 1H 81 the college; Professor Agsssiz
John Quincy Adams ana espers ,xera General Butler
Yis .fe Ames Judge Coonrn OF se
prsms Court; Judge Oliver %eae' Of New7yorR and
OK FIrssiden Of the AlanEi n
There We're seen sr ~ sne a np General Bartlett
rssspted TO the college by the Alumni 70 WEI Cow
wa ~t,ers seat brought him beneath the SHADOW 81
he copey portraits Of Nicholas Msro' nr while
30 , Hssc sss f e Quincy
and Edysrd Eye We sma f bunch Of acquemnOt
roses. . IA haan 1,xhted Mr. Cioate
AZ svu 10 order and introduced the yenersoe
Sbrar 81 Harvard John Lngden s5ley. wnO as
eighth Psalm so familiar TO Harvard men,
xp cUoATE BETWEEN THE HORNS OF A pI-h"MA.
Mr. cboate In opening the post-prandih exercises
made a happy speech in which ne numorcusy @luuou
20 the embarrassing position he had occupied sl.inB
hstreen the horns OF iiemma" Butler and PRESIDENT
rS,ot whom, he called hard htters and men whom It
W. safe TO let alone. He had, however, got along
splen aidv by doing rs both wished, ana Us t,e an,
anse he was safe It was not until the Alumni "a
lost IFS head that be had been called upon ~
sxrresse regrets that Senator Hoar whos@ n,eraons
ioyalty 10 Harvard had endsared him TO her Alan NM
was present. Whea IN the course o. for sbams and
SumSngs thers was prolonged applause on the par. q
the older portion Of the Alumni wno a. Bufer The
sneaker paid President Eliot handsome bH re
s ry 20 join Harvard the founder Of the In
stnton Who died 245 years ago; and ne tnen sn ~
John Harvard from sannelJ Bridge It's 10 DC pi'ceu
In me apex q se soaSed Mr. Choate and made brief
b eSneent speech After the Presidents speech me me
xamni united in singing the CommenceInent ' sn
words of which were written py % d. "e'e
Tie mnsi, by John K Paine.
GoyFRNoR DuTLER's SPEECH
A. tho conclusion OF the hymn the Governor who haa
ba for some minutes neryousy chewing ms cigar, was
,,rodueed to respond to The commonwealth OF Mas
he was
fnnsiac applause but tho greater part on tuc ,no
came from the men, who seemed peh. Nn and
ahstaned for the most part, lro any
appause and gave the object OF their haan
ni peech Hfs hearers tatched HIM 20 crtieise every
xordhe might Sse ~ aa ahus fair decree Of
,snve several times interrupted by applause
When Inc inc rev Charles Babbdge, whom
10 day had honored by conterring on him the
srce az D. d. the audience ana gave the COOL Old
& f"i psi, ''i'' -, ,,.,o,
,what little education got was IN afar @ s
hsn as nov. came down your COM
mencemen And Oh how wished tnas co asD I Who
were lust then entering upon their college course But
har tate forbade and my
had destined my oldest Tor an edncsiS o9r 1ns
dsssx Comfy while sou ny sspd a nina but 70
waere / believe he graduated with some oes'es Va
e' Snt nas mot forget that Of the
who 10 your gsess and w6 ases 70 Mesa
taa' =, sentiment .Ss halls But Of WI" Harvard. cali
for anybody speak for her, she s 9ea ara ,Ds
pArplanssl Your president has shown that he Y mol
are mot VI M he HnS pardon
me II say that these the least OF the benet
ihs: oe%noDwsa'h tnd has ss gwen and r ss
S 9if,s has been her children whom . she
sent here e, eassn sna se Country
iAppausc ana cheers More she gave MAJ 10 re s1
nail py ny otner STATE any institution Of learn
ing. She made YOU place Ia ber laws uIsa 1
~ sase ere sTsf. of the common school system
Of Massaeusetts and aferward Of Harvard College as
neaon IAppiause.l Point TO any other OF al inc
states where such recognition OF an INSTITUTION q
But the commonwealth of Massachusetts, even at the
time when she was emerRg r0 p 5a
IN that war, IN all others In when pnirotlsih
enlisted sae %s Incident at her command that
yorfte act OF state when Their excnequef
sRr la5s and iastatons Com
onwcalth was making her Constitution unuer ~ 1ss
slavse tSat under DO whatever, by egs
aton any other way SHOULD me NJ pla
snvsa.t, svsr ne diverted from the pur-
poses Tor which they were gwen. tAppiause'l
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COLLEGE.
To ,er any further need to show you show others
for Intend not to speak you alone, but TO larger
and wider audences there need of any other Thought
or speech 10 show how Harvard University stands In all
the good vacations the great Commonwealth OF Mas
sachusc and the care vita when they are carse
position may ind himself 10 BET lAppiaasel your
Iat dav We're for almost single purpose II took
Young men in the three learned grofession OF which BY
projections needed learning. vita or less eonye-
ton but Harvard College met the wants o. tne
aumu meet her TO make her equal 10 the axe 10
which found herself And as year BY yssa5 sne
mesa 40 what we have heard to-day tells us that in the
ssos e nss poron q Worldly
works; and many Of them before that time ana tha {
MI president, II you VIII allow me to say 50 much,
you WIN hnd widen the benefits to the people;
,a S 10 ,s those rsarnsd back 20 you the
unni send forth Agpanss ne TSrs Is eSas
needed when your college was founded IL has become
ySp please Sss.den snd hay you sbo%a
me much more than knew before, and more, perhaps
now MISUNDERSTANDING all the practical learning OF the
daysee to it that the chemist the enMnesr Ine me
world because by those hereafter the world IL 70 Dc
And may call your attention one other matter In
the Older time up 1920 Massachusetts not only re-
hesed from the college bu she relieved every pro
lessor and every student How near and dear 70 her
hear must they have been for her 20 do that II the
college has IN s spy sscE Popass
bring her down 70 the people ana sne people UP 70 &
and make WhaJ bne was AZ INC DoklAhink VI ehe
century. tApplausel
THE DEBT OF THE STATE TO THE COLLEGE.
But we have been speaking for 80 much time upon
what Harvard owes Massachusetts May be permit
ted 70 say few words upon what Massachusetts owes
10 Harvard Coliegei In every time Of ter distress In
every time of her need, Harvard College has been the
refuge OF the Government OF hassachu-
sefts.-froHl the time when smallpox drove
the Legislature cut OF Boston and yOn
took IL into your bsll and gave IL home apo
sppause and then the Legislature burned 10 up or
TOOK re they it, not from any heat IN the
Leeislature- l-and MASSACHUSETTS, rebuilt ~
Asain when your halls were wanted for the barracks
OF Wasnnstons troops, did Harvard College object NO,
No! With patriotism that distng ushea the fathers
they left these balls be occupied By tbs troops and
went to the shades OF peiebboring town anu there
carried on the studies IN very small buldng But
the War OF the Revelation WIS raging, snd when
Washington commanded here, the classes Of Harvard
necessarily SMALL for All It's young men were In Tue