New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-10
I'D In New-York only by energetic effort ana
thorough organization.
Senator Hoars speech or Tuesday br.stlsd WIN
good points No wonder the Democrats squirmeo'

Senator Hoar's speech on Tuesday br.stsd with
good points No wonder the Democrats squirmeo'
President Eliot Of Harvard University. mas
made an elaborate explanation and defence OF MS
new rule concerning political meetings In the
college buildings. He does not object 10 pohtics'
but to partisanship. Discussions OF aos'roc'
political themes. such as The Ethical Sgnincahce
Of the Iota Subscript as bearing upon the VII
mot Proyiso or The Esoteric Influence OF the
Salic Law upon the Geneva Arbitration are all
right: but a rafting speech In tavor Oh '"e
American tariff system. or an argument asa'''s'
reyamping wildcat shinplasters and the income
tax. would be all wrong. Which is quite as cieaf
az mud Does President Eliot really think II
SO very much worse to hold party RAINY III
college building than for college president 10
go about making party stump-speeches and issu-
ing party campaign documents over MS own sig
nature?
r,,, Central Park "tip" turned out to be a
bad one.
The recent step taken by the Third Avenue
Railroad Company in letting its patrons transfer
TO the Grand. Canal and Observation-Disclosures
ty-ffth SITS. lines has given much satislac'ioii.
II was a wise decision, and /, Is appreciated
especially by many poor people, VINO nave peeh
compelled until recently to walk consideraoie
dts.orce In order TO save a few cents, but who
ORC row able 10 connect with almost any Of the
comnanv's lines without trouble and without pay
ing an extra fare.
While a society for the reform or HUSBANDS -
here urgently proposed. and its need maintained
tod
Draper who asserts that the prevailing cause
- domestic inouietude is the insuppressble
eeotlsm and selfishness OF the men. an inter-
collegiate matrimonial bureau Is quite as seri-
ouslv urged among the students OF both sexes at
the various seats Of learning. the general idea
he,ne that highly educated people ought 10
marry each other and hang up their two aca-
demic diplomas together over the marriage GER
tlfcate The plan seems good one, but mas
not yet gone through its trial. II 1t turn out
we'll and collegans continue to espouse eacn
other as the generations advance, they Will per-
haps come 70 be born learned, and 10 kho"
Greek and the mathematics by instinct or ac-
cumulated heredty as Darwin declares that the
inferior animals inherit the developed aputudes
OF their ancestry. However. this may be, the
foundation Of the society, II 1t be founded, will
be Of interest beyond the schools, and every
body will be curious about Its Institutes and
ordinances Who are TO make the first conJugal
advances the girls or the boys? And IL the ad-
vance 10 be Of a public and official or private
and individual character? Many a butterfly
and honey bee Of conjecture hovers about this
radiant and fragrant flower OF promise. or
breach Of promise but It is useless to consider
the subject further until the constitution OF the
society has been made public and Its precise
aim and scope revealed. II any husbands re-
suit from II. it is to be hoped that they may not
be OF the kind that DR. Draper spoke OF and
for the abatement Of whom the reform associa-
ton was founded.