The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-11-09

/ IS Oar God, was then sung by the
/ chorus. a number of honorary degrees
were then conferred by President Eli
OFT. the exercises closing with benedic-
ton by Rev. Mr.. Peabody. Members
! OF the Alumni and invited guests then
adjourned 10 Memorial Hall, where q
banduet was spread.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
visited President and Mrs. Elliot at
their home. Members of the various
| associations. with their invited guests.
took up the line OF march 10 Memorial
Hall, which was soon reached. The in
vited guests were first TO enter, and
were ssluted with a song by the uni
versity chorus.
President Cleveland entered the hall,
AID walked TO his place by the side OF
Judge Devens. No hall in New Eng
land. probably, ever held such an array
OF distinguished men. The Presidents
table was surrounded with the faces of
men whose names are household words
all over America. and many of them
such throughout the civilized
world. President Cleveland sat with
Secretary Bayard on his right,
and Governor Robinson on his
left. AT the Presidents table were
seated the following distinguished
guests: Secretary OF War Endicott,
Secretary OF the Navy Whitney;
Secretary of the Interior Lamar; Hon.
Robert c. Winthrop. United States
Senator Hoar; DR.. 5. Weir Mitchell;
versity of Rome; Hon. James Russell
Lowell; DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes;
Mr.. Francis parkman; Prof. James B.
Thayer; Alexander Agassiz; George
William Curtis, Hon. Charles w. Eliot:
PTes.d mt Timothy Dwight of Yale
College; DR.. Charles Taylor of the
University of Cambridge (England);
President James B. Angle, Rev. Mandel
Creighton, of Emmanuel College, Cam
bridge (England); Right Hon. Sir Lyon
Playfair, of the University of .Edin-
burgh, and others. Although the hour
set for the banquet was 2 30, il was >
O'Clock before Judge Deyens (president
of the day. was enabled to call the COM
pany 10 order. When he finally did so,
there were l.200 persons seated at the
long tables, and then all had not been
accommodated. Professor Alexander
Mckenzie, of the First Church, Cam
bridge. invoked the divine blessing, and
the banquet began. While the dinner was
in progress. Mrs. Grover Cleveland, at
tended by Mrs. Endicott and the wife
of President Eliot, of Harvard, entered
one OF the galleries with a number of
other invited guests, and was enthusiast
tically received by tLos present. At
the close of the banquet the alumni
sang Isl Marlin IN chorus, after
which President Devens arose and de-
liyered an address of introduction, in
the course of which he said:
Ii is well 10 meet in this day of pros
perity in this our Massachusetts,, and
ia the mighty nation OF which she Is
component part. We look back to-day
when this college was founded, and of
the various branches OF the colony who
assembled at that time. What
was said at that time we find
no records Of. but what they did We
now see. What may be the future of
this university the alumni must
determine. There must come changes.
Surely science and our English tongue
must find more consideration in the
future, but these tongues of the past
cannot be ignored. We believe to-day
that the college has fulfilled, in large
measure, the high purposes of its
founders. In all the fields have her
sons been faithful to their country. All
the signers OF the Declaration of indie
pendence from MasSacEu ,etts we're sons
OF Harvard, and IN every time OF
doubt, of peril, the sons OF Harvard
have come forward with their counsel
to guide and help, by their wisdom and
presence. Ii the sons of Harvard are
as faithful in the future as in the past.
the university wi | go on increasing in
prosperity aud follow that very simple
word VIII, forms its motto % TeritdS."
At the conclusion OF Judge DevenS
address, the audience arose. aud led By
the anniversary chorus, sang Far
Harvard" with great spirit. President
Devens then gave as the first sentiment
Our Alma Mater. all ug upon Pres
dealt Elliot to re- ponc.
In the course OF mis- address, Mr..
Elliott said: "At this high festival IN
which tender recollections and hopeful
anticipations. of Thanksgiving for the
past and aspirations for the future are
mingling, we all think first Of our be-
loved country.
Old at our birth, new as the springing
hours,
Shrine of our weakness, fortress of our
powers,
And we saluta him who here
hon orably represents her.
Here Chief Marshal Lee proposed
three che ars fer the President, which
were heartily given.
Next we give thanks and praises TO
Mas sachusetts. Hers was far seeing and
far reaching act which We celebrate; hers
was q generatiYe deed, done IN the lone
illness of poverty, but in faith. To-day
so ,OOO, 900 people in wealth and strength
and liberty share its fruits when we
greet the representatives OF other in
situations of learning, who have come
TO rejoice with US, and We welcome men
distinguished IN public service and pro-
LESSONS, in letters. science, or art,
whose favoring presence adds lustre to
our assembly. President Eliot closed
amid applause. the sentiment. The
commonwealth of Massachusetts, was
responded to by Governor George ID.
Robinson.
At its close. President Deyens, in
felicitious speech. in which he eulogized
the qualities of the nations chief, in
troduced President Cleveland, who
spoke as follows:
Hr. President aud Gentlemsn:-I find
myself to-day in company to which l
am much unused, aud when l realize
the alumni OF the oldest college in the
land surrounding, in their right Of SON
ship, the maternal board to which am
but an invited guest, the reflection that
for me there exists no alma mater gives
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