Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-09
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FROM ALL QUARTERS.
CLEVELAND AT HARVARD
A Brilliant Round Of
Exercises.
THE SCENE IN The THEATER.
A Popular Ovation In
Faneuil Hall.
THE SITUATION AT CHICAGO.
No Work Yet For The
Troops.
a GREAT DAY AT HARVARD,

GREAT DAY AT HARVARD.
President Cleveland the Lion of tn.
OccasiOn-The President Makes an
After Dinner Address-EIe Receives
the People at Faneu1l hall-A Bril-
liant Scene in the Evening-NeW
Haven Men Among Those Who Se-
cefve Honorary Degrees.
Boston, Nov. S.-The President and hi
party reached here at 6:35 THU
morning. Governor Robinson and staff en-
tered the car and extended greetings to the
party, welcoming them to Massachusetts il
| a short speech to which the President briefly
replied. The party then left the car and es
corted by the cadets proceed ed to Hotel
Vendome. Only twenty minutes was spent
at breakfast Immediately after breakfast
the presidential party embarked for Cam
bridge Mrs Cleveland and Mrs. Endicott
left Commonwealth avenue very soon after
ward for Harvard with Colonel N. P. Walker
and Colonel Stems of the Governors staff.
| AS the head of the column reached Boylston
street Major Follett's battery on the common
| fred the national salute of thirty eight guns,
| after which the battery repaired to Cam
| bridge, where on the arrival of the President
a salute of twenty one guns was fired. The
| presidential party arrived at Harvard soon
| after 10 O'Clock and were received at Gore
Hall by President Eliot, the entire party at
once proceeding to Sanders theater. The
following was the order of exercises at San
ders theater:
Introductory address by the president of the as
Prayer BY Professor Francis Greenwood Peabody.
Music-"Domi g salvam fac" Gounod By the
Grafton by James Russell Lowell.
Music-"The Heavens Proclaim Him, Beethoven
By the anniversary chorus.
Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Music-'A Mighty Fortress is Our God" By the
9 nferri1s of honorary degrees by the president
Benediction BY the Rev. Andrew Preston Pea
body, ID.
After the applause which followed the
close of DR.. Holmes poem had died away the
chorus sang another selection. The fol-
lowing honorary degrees were then conferred:
LII. D., Hon. George D. Robinson, Governor
of Massachusetts; Hon. Lucius Q. c. Lamar,
Secretary of the Interior; Hon. George FRS
bic Hoar, United States Senator from Mas
sachusetts; Charles Taylor, of the Univer-
sity of Cambridge, England Wendell Creigh-
ton of John Harvard's College, Emanuel of
CANT bridge England; Sir Lyon Playfair, of
the University Of Edinborc; Timothy Dwight,
president of Yale college; Ezekiel g. Robin
son, president of Brown university; Joseph
Leedy, professor of anatomy of the
University of Pennsylvania; Charles
K. Adams, president of Cornell uni
ysTsity; MARX Hopkins bu Of Williams dsias
justice of the Superior court; Thomas NJ.
Coolidge of the University of Michigan;
Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian Institu-
tien Asaph Hall of the United States navy;
Cyrus w. Mitchell, Henry L. Abbott of the
United States engineers; George ]. Brush of
e L. kn1 fo%n
geological survey; Hon. Walbridge A. Field,
justice of the Supreme court; John S. Bill
lings surgeon U. S. A.; Rudolpho Lanciani of
the University of Rome: o. G. Marsh of Yale;
Theodore D. Woolsey of Yale; J. G..
Whittier; Michael Eugene Chevreul, the sci
Amasa Park, professor in Andover; w.
S. Tyler, professor in Amherst college;
Jonathan P. Bowditch; E. E. Sails
bury, of Yale; Charles Dean; James D. Dana
of Yale; James Hall, New York; Roswell D.
Hitchcock, professor in Union Theological
seminary.
The degree of D. D. was conferred on
the following William D. Hyde, presi-
dent of Bowdoin college; George Park Fish
or, professor in Yale college; Egbert Coffin
Smyth, professor in Andover seminary; AL
exander g. Allen, professor in the Episcopal
Theological school at Cambridge.
In the theater whenever reference was
made to the name of President Cleveland the
theater echoed and re-echoed with applause.
During Mr.. Lowell's address this applause
was most boisterous and the President, blush
ing like scboolboy, rose and bowed. Also
whenever reference was made by the speak
ers to President Eliot he was most enthusiast
tically received.
At the conclusion of the exercises in San
ders' Theater the company repaired to the
banqueting hall where after the viands had
been amply discussed an hour was passed in
afterdinner speechmaking. Judge Charles
Deysns first responded to the toast 1.-The
University" Governor Robinson then
spoke to s'The commonwealth" Presi-
dent Cleveland was then introduced.
He was received with unfeigned demonstra-
lions of respect. The applause was long and
hearty. He said:
Mr. President and Gentlemen-I find myself to,
day in company to which am much unuse d; and
when see the alumni of the oldest college in the
land surrounding in their right OF sonship the ma
reflection that for me there exists no alma mater
Of Honr is o
your reassuring friendliness If the fact IS
only ONCE had the
of co legiate5or university education a proof IS
Father than an argument against supreme value
of the most liberal education in high public posi-
for any space or d stance between the walks of a
classical education and the way that leads to
the most learned and cultured of our citizens to
mingle in public affairs, and the
tivity to those who have but little
regard for the student and the scholar in politics.
are not favorable conditions under a government
such And if they have existed to dan
aging extent very recent Of 70 be and
are be hereafter more plainly heard in the ex-
e Of patie eo e behalf Of
country will be sooner reached If the best OF our
m of a cze1 s6p to actively and practically
engage ia political affairs, and if the force and
fingiy or unwilling1y acknowledged in party man
ageInent. If am to speak of the President OF tne
pleasant and characteristic feature Of system Of
government, the nearness OF the p9g1pie, 70 !
view afforded citizens of the acts and con uct
of those to whom they have entrusted their inter
ton and pressure in office and is constant remind
er that diligence and faithfuness are the IRE
President and the people ought to leave but little
in for the R9p nd
for malicious ISLANDERS invented Tor tne purpose |
Of undermining the peoples trust and nee
public officer should desire to check the utmost
eTeTy ii m as To must
President of the United States should noe 70 70
citizen This trial Of our national his
AM tendency were fully appreciated, the silly,
mean nd cowardly lies that every DAY are lonna
every instinct of American manliness and in ghoul,
ish glee desecrate every sacred reauon ol pl.Va.e
lite. There is nothing IN the highest once Lnao .e
American people can confer which necessarily fn
makes their President altogether selfish scheming
and untrustworthy. On the contrary the soie.lf m
duties which confront him tend to SOBER sense 9L
responsibility; the trust Of the Ame:ean people PIE
and appreciation of their mission among inc ma
lions of the earth should make him a patriotic
man. and he tales OF distress which reach v e ann
afflicted cannot fail to quicken within him
every kind impulse and tender ,r, sensinll duty
After all it to this: Ihe peoPe
of the United States have, one and all.
sacred mission to perform; and their resident
not more surely than every other citizen who loves
his country must assume part OF the responsible.
lily of demonstrating to the world the success OF
popular governm mt. No man can hide ms talent
in napkin and escape the condemnation his
slothfulness deserves evade the stern sentence
which his faithlessness invited.
Be friends that the priYilegeS Of Lhis