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What Leading Pspezs say Regarding
His Ph1Isdslphla opsscA-
II 10 evident tia. President Eliots denial
Of the published reports of his unfortunate
remarks .. PhiiaieIphis hare not, In The
opinion Of the iesiins newspapers, placed
that gen lemsn 10 ma.h better hight The
following press comments shich have APP
peassd since the publication Of that deni~.
shos very cieafly the general trend Of pub
lie spiaioa regarding the matter
Bangor Wing. Feb. IS
President Eiios, Of Harvard College made
a sp~eeh recently Ia which he attacked the
~ wspspsr fraternity in snjustifabie Ian
gage The Boston Globe Gao hnd no
substantial excuse in the lengthy and
i4borsd expi41zrionr and comes to the con-
elasion that he mas badly stopped over
This Is not rev experience for President
Et;ot. H. stopped over very badly some
seeks ago When he attempted 10 paint
d. mocraey IS the party Of reform.
Bidiesora Journal, Feb. 81.
President Eliot Of Harvard college is 10
hot water again. Al = dinner given BY
Harvard graduates In Philadelphia, last
week, be 10 reported to have ssid some
very mean things about newspaper men
charac.erizsns reporters as 'irunkar's,
thieves, dead beats and bammsrs. Mr..
E,i5t may be a model scholar and college
president. bat il is plain that his fore is
not public speaking. He would better
stick 10 the shop.
Portland Express Feb Is.
President EIiot's unealled for and insult
ing r,marks about reporters have again
brought an insignneAnt man to the front
Tn. president of Harvard College, more b.
an accident than by any merits of his evp,
he has made himself chiefly famous By his
adoption OF the free trade doctrines and has
done almost Do:h hing to advance the inter
esis Of the noble institution which he mis-
represents On such puoic occasions 81 the
recent Philadelphia dinner His discour-
reous, ung -ntIemsniy attack dlsgasted even
his varmesi friends. He lowered the char
acrer of the students at his own college in
order TO bring accusations against a class of
men, whose daily lives make an enviable
The newspaper reporters of Boston were
the direct objects Of his attack, and the
President of Harvard College has no reason
10 complain of the treatment he has re-
ceiyed at their hands. The newspaper re-
portsrs of this country are as whole, a
gentlemanly, hard working. honorable set
If men, worthy of receiving the esteem of
their fellow citiz ms in almost every case.
There may be, and undoubtedly are, blaek
sheep among them, but as the president OF
Harvard has said they may have come from
Harvard. The very men whom he denoun-
ces as having disgrsced themselves a. the
university undoubtedly entered that instta
lion with morals and habits irreproschable
and possibly owe their downfall TO the "fasl
set which attracted such universal atten
lion year or two ago, and for whose exis
tenee certainly the officers of the Institution
are in measure to blame.
Boston Globe, Feb. u.
We regret to be forced to the conclusion
that President Eliots speech at Philade lphis
last Saturday, before the Harvard Club
was the most unfortunate utterance of thai
distinguished gentleman's life.
The testimony of Editor Brainerd and
Mr.. l.. Clarke Davis seems to be copclu
.ve of the fact that President Eliot did
make some sweeping reflections upon the
character of Boston reporters. President
Eliot's own EXPLANATIONS, lengthy and
lab0red as they are, seem to us fur
nish in themselves sufficient evidence
thar he snake with asperity of the
reportotial guild of this clty His com.
nl.int that he sunnosed the meeting was 4
priyate one. and that no reporters were
nrssent. i. in itself auasi intimation that
hut for his snnpo.ition of Driyacy. he wouid
rot have said ante all or exactly what h.
did saw. In other words. President clio,
hims,If .eem. To say tina he was taken n, q
disadvantage nv being r.oorted a, ALI
II annears IN ma morally eerta n that Pros.
ident Fliot did aneak of tho character N
Bos,on renorters generally in term. of dis.
resnect-to mn, tho ease mildly-and this be
n. ia nntha cases of four men who had beer
exnelled from Harvard in Disgrace. and whe
later fonnd nlsces nm the rrnortial sta
of Ros,ou Daners "a ,vnic.l of the mora
tone Of the entire renortorisl body of thi,
CITY. We make no doubt, reading the frs
report of his remarks in the light Of his ow +
snb-euuent ordinations. that President
Eliot va. repor,ed With subsfantial thougt
not verbal accuracy. as follows:
/ He krew four men who bad been exnellef
/ from Harvard who had found places on III.
Boston neysua ,er, AS reporters One OF
,hes, men al )een expelled for stealing
another for drnnkencess the third for he
ins connected with a di.graceful row in ,
,roth.l and the fourth they had been wait
inv 10 get rid of for some time. These men
1 he said. were types of the reporters of the
newsuspers
This il certainly the most unfortunate
becansc die most uuins, and untrue uttpr
snce of his life. The distinction which
! President Eliot seems desirou. NJ drawn,
| between Ro.ton editors and r ,.ton r. mort
.rs ia wholly fsnciful. The Roston editor,
Of to-.l., wore tho Roston renortar. of ve.
terdav and tho Ro.ton renor,ers of tod,
will be- the Boston editors of ,omorrow
There are verv few efitorial chair, in thi,
city that are not filed nv mon who we're TO-
nnr,er. bafo,a ,bsv became .di,o,, srf
xho know and fesl therefore tbat.n .sna,
sion .nch a, p,esiaan, EIio, c..,. mon IN.
rsnorto,;sI nod, Of mi, citv i. N oil in
,ent. and nnrno.e, an ssnsrsioo of tho on