The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-26
THE HARVARD DINNER.
College Men Gather to Honor the Pres
ident of their Alma Mater.

The dinner to President Eliot at the Chamber
OF Commerce was attended by most of the menu
bers of the club and by few invited guests
from the city. The guests were: President
Charles W. Eliot, Lieutenant A. d. WykoF D.
H. Gilman, +. J. Grant, A. P. Burwell, Judge
Orange Jacobs, Eben Smith, W. A. Peters, Pro-
fessor Frank j. Barnard and E. A. Strout, and
the following members of the club:
Joseph shippen, Rev. d. C. Garrett, Herman
Shhpin, Daniel Kelleher, C. I. Tyler. Andrew
Loomis, Herbert Tappan, Frank $. Southland, W.
=: Tyler, D. n. Baxter. r. NJ. White. Frederick
LIVINGSTON, b. steadman, II. F. Meserve, George
L. Heilbron, Hammond Lamont, Frank B.
Wrestling, Ira Bronson, George W. TYLER,
Thomas A. Gamble, Rev. W. J. Eliot, IT.. Mark
Bailey, IT,, William Parsons, c. H. Pennington.
Elliott Bright, Rev. Wallace Suttiug.
The dining-r room was very tastsfully deco
rated. crimson, the college color. being predom-
fnant After due attention had been paid to the
excellent viands. Joseph shippen. president of
the club, introduced in q few graceful words
The guest of the evening. President Charles W.
Eliot, to respond to the tosst, sour Alma Ma-
Ter, Honored Throughout the World" The
mentors of the club arose and sung two verses
OF Fair Harvard"
President Eliot responded, speaking OF the
pleasure of meeting so many Harvard men in
town so new and remote from Cambridge.
10 the eight weeks since he had left home he
had found that everywhere the Harvard men
were useful and scrvicsable men In the
community. He had also found further
examples 10 prove that college
education gives the beat sort OF success. 1t does
NOT necessarily enable men to grow rich, but by
the test Of service to the community 1t gives
men success that is better than riches. Har-
YARD had lived through nine generations of men,
In each generation her men had done good
service for their fellows
DR. Eliot further told Of the growing feeling
hat all ha
aying out of the old rivalries and enmities be-
tween higher institutions of learning-s rivalry
That had sprung from tho fact that different re-
Igious denominations had founded different
colleges. At present Harvard contained several
hundred graduates of other colleges who
wished to learn what Harvard could teach.
There was a feeling that man could obtain the
best education by attending more than one
college or university.
Tire last few years had been remarkabl for
the increase in the number of students not only
In Harvard, but in Yale, Michigan and other
universities. There had also been a growth in
cndowmeuts of colleges, and as we'll an advance
in American scholarship.
The time was coming when the different uni
versities would stand for the different types of
scholarship, as, for example, Cambridge, IN Eng
land, had been strong in mathematics, while
Oxford had been the great seat of classical
learning. When this differentiation took place
Harvard would stand for liberal
ity in scholarship, religion and poll
tics, The hberality of Harvard had
led to the opposition of the stricter ones,
anc the founding first of Yale and afserward
OF Amherst The prominent Massachusetts,
men in the Revolutionary war had been Har-
ward men. Samuel Adams had taken his honors
1 with an Grafton upholding the right OF citizen
4 To resist magistrate In the anti-slsvery move
nent Harvard men were leaders In the poll
tics Of today the Harvard men were also liberal
Nc whatever party they might belong they were
7 10 be found IN the liberal wing Of it
s Ia the same way Harvard had led In the