The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-26
FOR FAIR HARVARD"
President Charles W. Eliot's
Visit to Seattle.
THE DINNER AND SPEECHES.
Gathering OF the Alumni to Honor the
Head Of the Unfversity-At
the Schools.

President Charles W. Eliot, Of Harvard UNI
versity, accompanied by Mrs Eliot, arrived in
the city yesterday morning from Tacoma They
were met at the train and escorted to the Raj
nier hotel by committee of the Harvard Club
Of Seattle. In the afternoon President Eliot
went with Superintendent Frank j. Barnard,
Thomas W. Prosch and d. A. Spencer to visit
the High school, while Mira Eliot spent a few
hours in looking about the city. Last evening
the Harvard Club gave DR.. Eliot dinner at the
Chamber Of Commerce This morning visits
will be paid to the State university and to some
Of the public schools If the weather 10 fair,
the excursion on Lake Washington, planned for
yesteday afternoon, will take place; and in any
event President Eliot will lecture in the P,y.
mouth Congregational church tonight on ssThe
Reasons for Enriching the Programme of the
Public Schools" DR.. Eliot Is a speaker of I'M.
usual force and brilliance, and the address will
be an event for all directly or indirectly inter-
ested In educational work.
President Eliot has already been away from
Cambridge for eight weeks visiting the various
cities of the West and examining the public
and private school systems. He has spent a
few days in each OF the principal places on tbs
Coast "The schools are better than some
might expect, even in the smaller cities" said
he yesterday. "The liberal state laws have
helped to build up the schools, and the ambi-
ton of towns to otter attractions for the Eastern
immigrant has also been an important factor"
AT the High school President Eliot was intro
duced to the pupils by Principal John W. Hes.
ton, and made a brief speech to them The de-
velopment of the individual, he said, was the
e1d OF modern education, and he added that
the main object OF going to school was not to
learn this or that fact, but to acquire
power-power Of service and mower
Of making happier everyday life. In the old
days boy could get through his Latin en-
trance examination into college ii his memory
vas trained 80 that he could remember the
Translation of certain passages in certain
authors. Today Harvard requires him to trans
late at sight Latin he had never seen, but
similar to that he had already been reading.
In other words, the boy has not only learned
certain facts, but he must havo power to apply
the principles already acquired. In the same
way the Harvard examinations in geometry 70.
euire the student to apply the theories to new
problems not in the ordinary textbooks The
power OF seeing clearly, Of touching accurately
and recording with precision was the great
thing for school children to acquire and If they
were able to do these things they were fairly
well fitted for the work of life. President Eliot
further said that the present need of this coun-
try was more high schools, academies and
private schools devoted to secondary education.
Harvard college, which he represents, il the
Oldest OF American institutions of learning,
having been founded in 1886. What 10 now
known as Harvard university includes the Col
lege, the Scientific school, the Graduate school
and ak professional schools. The College,
Graduate school, and the Divinity, Law and
Scientific schools are situated In Cambridge
Mass; the Medical school, the Dental school,
the school Of veterinary medicine and the Bus.
sey institution "a school of agriculture and hor-
ticulture) in Boston. In addition to these de-
partments the university has several other i'm.
portaut branches-the astronomical observatory
the university museum, including the museum