New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-02-22

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that th, hardly be adequate expression on wha'
we wanted We did find q thirty hve-fcot plot out "'e
trouble was the land and building ana furniture "ou
est 400 600 There not time 10 get more SUI
scriptons but then there to US guarantee vi
go 600 mole Of subscriptions IL the committee "ud ouN
the plot We accepted guarantee We have made al
the lot and expect To &c; IT, we sha'i nav
cur Harvard in West Forty'fourthsr one uoor
west OF the Berkeley and Cpl o'ite the Berkeley
School.
Loud applause greeted this unexpected news ana
Mr. Wendell then led the singing OF "falr harVaru.
All arose and Joined in the beautiful meiody W''
feeling Sir. King next introduced President Ehot
as one to whom the unexampled growth Of the uni
verSlty I'm the last five years chiefly due frcsi-
dent Eliot greeted heartily as he arose 10 say
| thought [ detected speech OF your president
what have often perceived before In this room-a eeins
that you in NewYork are very busy and thae 1ns
city is a peculiarly buy place. II you wano 70 see
really busy beehive and people occupied with ray I'M
portant things OF earth 60 Cambridge. N,aughter)
The undergraduates engaged at whsteler interests
them with all the ardor Of youth The corporation
is called contrvc the bcst reidng.room In connee
ton with the library You have idea how dihcuic
this ls There are 5000 students at Harvard. ana
125 reading places are not half enough HOW many
shall provided "a voice, lone thousand" Laueh,er
II the rate OF increase for the last
five ten years continues In six years We sho n"'c
4. 800 students. (Aplause.) Then about the TWO ne"
dcrmltorles. How shall they b. built Are there so'ns
o be chums. (Shouts OF Eyes. yes') ThahK YOU
apartment very good for ana air or TWO
Iaughtcr) Then the physical development OF inc
students II has improved in the last twenty-five .'
Is improving in an Increasing ratio Lawn INNS
pcrhap the best Of all college sports because IL htes''
many
What Is the Harvard spirit which We value so much
one OF our younger instructors recently received a o'
OF placc al two onc-Ealf tire, his present sa'ry
but was reluctant accept 1t. asked MN why i'
laid Here [ am perfectly free. Here have freedom
~ thought and freedom srcccnunr"strained ana uhe
sricted freedom" Applanse) -
Mr. King then announced that Colonel Thomas
Wentworth IIigginson and Chaunccy NJ Depew were
unable TO be- present on account Of Ill health lie
introduced Colonel Henry l.. IlIgginson, OF Boston, u"
| representing Yale. The Colonel said In part -.
| = When We were coming back hom the football game
last fall where polished you OIL once more '"o"s"
| I would Ike 10 ask all the players TO dhe tog'1hcr'
.,, some ~ the bows how it would work. They sld
had better not try IT, 50 Immediately set about DONG
IL. always do when any one opposes nv '" '
the remarks made before the dinner; you WI, ,m ""
IIenty OF police outside. of course sa'u o"e, ~
.,cre with ON ambulance" said another "and you pa''
rhe bodies right out to me- -,
We'll we had our dinner aud l am bound 10 LAY, ui'
though | am Yale man, that the llar'ar1 men u'u u
hos, and treated very well 'Behie Aii"o'i'
Mccormick and others made speeches. and all sad 'hey
had very good II our universities are cong
| advance they must pull together ana cul''''c ''''
| feeling. gotta
Three times three cheers then given Tor 'olo'
| mel ucpn,on and the gee club sang song. MI
| King then introduced Frank d. Mile', the aruS'' "
speak for Chicago, and tell what had become ol Di'
Mr. Mlllct said IL happen to be hire pec"'' ",
on trip tie opposit" J"r,,y Sly, eon .I'im
called the Chicago Of the East, To intlOducc Pai.
machine which have invented ma, n"mr,r'
that you do your printing by hand mere 4 n7 very
n, i'm Chicago where come fIcm, we are lio' s,'
rich but We have subscribed Sii0OOno 10 IN" ii'' =,
affair Of which you perhaps have heard pmr'a
now waving her eilded drapcry over the Agricultural
"" William y. uornblower was then introduced TO blow
Mr. Inrnl,
withstanding the reduction OF your PrcsaS' in n,
not nrn descendant of the angel nigel Gae 1rm,cy s to-
Iiarsard Like older sisters Harvard SOM
time, ASSUMES air, which I ire, Ind Won tonight
wiiiy cmrtcous liberal and full II good ,pir,d to
Tho toast to To' Van AmlIms and Colonel Wheel
Grs1 ,oa" "l ornard " Tiaod thanked the Harvard
1r f'r thc Interest IT had Shown in the college team;
wisb 9" .oid Joseph H. sears. speaking slowly ana
ect o 10 y SSc Subject r" on Which expect
talk II Is Impossible for speaker 70 eAPeT Rroos
young men ys felt In the oo OF oniy what he did
but what e might have done i ad ne been ''e''
Iohn w. TAYLOR. president Of the Harvard .i"p VI
I'm francisco spoke Of the work which the club was
sons u I said that the club founded In 1o'3'
II had raised thr'r fundS,one 70 h ppitc Coast an
ofher f. helm indlc nj young men to attend me COZ
lcee and third to Ind srnda', Tl Trorg
,h lnr,'.9ce Of the club. entrance examinations are
now held I'm san Francisco each year on liza was
Io..r,h IT, thOntc then fHil'u upoh; no We"
crrc,,d with repeated cheers lie spoke III par' r ~
| foIows: " ought 10 say To night as u I a.,
,nartlv IN say I'm college mot pfcpar"1. iioWtItI
,rhco Harvard calls must obey From J|nn '',o a
! stcrnod I'm C,yinism. 10 Emerson ana Lo"eil; '''
b th,r broad minded thinker, " orr own age me iu
vnco las ho,n onward and Upward eliminating III ui1'
errnt oupsfi, whose name all love. the man WI
enmnl..1 the emancpation Of Massachusetts from ~
| ,l,nn. frfters n man whom the pale OF no 'hurun
e'id ,nclose II was the hand of tod that lea MN
roii ,h cradle to The grave and made him what he
wnI I have been Of late connecting III my nun WV, un
names Of John Harvard and PHILIPS hrun , w" wv,
c"nturies and a half apart I'm time ana III culture Hc.
orb representing the best attachments OF Inc eye III
which he lived and Of which those ages were cappe
| fat summer visited StratfOrd On-An9n ana went 10
! Tho mor beautiful Of all the ancient houses OF VI.
ni,cn-thc home Of the mother Of John Harvard y
pa ,r, ahou To build Harvard house IN New. ork
trust that the committee In charge VII S,nly tlr
our hou.e here" The meeting closed win the Shs''
Of Aud Lang Syne.'