Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-02
HARVARD SONS AT BANQUET
Seventeenth Annual Dinner Of the Alumni
Cub Of Washington.
Every Glass. From 1896 to 1908, Rep
ed Guests - Omcers Elected.

There was representative gathering Of
men alike prominent In public life and
affairs Of business at the Shoreham last
evening on the occasion Of the seventeenth
annual dinner Of the Harvard Alumni Club
OF Washington. Every class from 1885 to
1903 was represented at the board and
seventy-two members wore the crimson
badge Of the university and mingled in
the festivities. Old times at Harvard were
rehearsed with interest by the older MEM
bers. while the younger ones talked of the
deeds of heroism of those of their alma
mater who participated in the Spanish
American war.
The guests of honor were Mr. John D.
Long. Secretary of the Navy; Mr.. John r.
Proctor. president of the civil service COM
mission: his excellency, Jutaro Komura.
minister from Japan; Prof. Edward H.
Mr.. George B. Leighton of st. Louis, presi-
dent of the United Harvard Clubs Of the
west.
Following the dinner Judge Edward Lam
der. the newly-elected president and Oldest
member of the club, who acted as toast
master, reviewed briefly the history of
the college during the last year. and spoke
feelingly of the growth and spread of it's
influence. He proposed the toast of "Har-
ward, whose memories are beloved by old
and young alumni which was drunk
standing.
Secretary John D. Long was introduced
as former governor of the commonwealth
who had risen to high honors and he was
called on to tell the club what he thought
of Harvard.
You ask me, sir what think of Har-
ward said he. 81 think well of it because
II graduated me. For a long time 1t was
the custom of Harvard to confer the degree
OF LII. D. on the governor of Massachu-
sets, | do not know pyactly whether IN
consider it an honor or the contrary that
should have been the last of the line to
benefit by that custom. When President
Elliott handed me my parchment thought
1 detected some hesitation in his manner,
and certainly 1t is a fact that never again
was the degree conferred a governor of
Massachusetts. / got by the accident of DO
litical preferment the degree others have
received because they carried 1t. I am ask
ed to speak on Harvard. 1t is unnecessary
where every mans heart is filled with Har-
ward. She speaks for herself"
Seat of Education.
Mr.. John R. Proctor, who followed Sec
rotary Long, referred to Harvard as the
seat of education in matters of good gov
eminent. For this reason, he said. the i'm
portance of the college just at this time
was greater than ever before. Uncle Sam,
he said, had been obliged to go into the
open market for men who know something
about government and in this connection
ne mentioned GOE. WOOQ OF CuDa.
The present conditions, Mr.. Proctor con-
tinued, reminded him of the southern lady
who gave her old nurse a thermometer by
which to tell when the temperature of the
water In which the children were bathed
was warm enough. The nurse said there
was need for it: when the water was
too cold the children turned blue, and when
too hot they turned red. So with the
United States. She had been governing
without thermometer and the hap-haZard
way would no longer do. Harvards special
instruction in good government would he
said, stand the nation in good stead now
that she had spread out and had under
taken to govern other people. Good gov
eminent, he said. is the coming issue. The
tariff is dying out as a party issue, and
with the tremendous output of gold the
financial question will be settled, but gov
ernment-the proper government of other
peoples important Mr.. Proctor conclud-
ed by saying that no son of Harvard had
| a warmer love for the college than he.
Union of Clubs.
Mr.. B. F. Leighton of st. Louis spoke of
the organization of the Union of Harvard
Clubs in the west and said that he hoped
to see the time when all the Harvard clubs
in the country would join the associa ton,
which was not confined to the west He
formally invited the Washington club to
join.
Speeches were also made by Representa-
tive Henry s. Boutell, Prof. Strobel of the
Harvard Law School, the Japanese minis
Ter, VINO IS Il graduate or Harvard. w. f.
Brown, keeper of the Harvard archives
Alfred s. Hartwell. commissioner from the
Hawaiian Islands; John w. Taylor of San
Francisco. who recently returned from the
Philippines; Francis Curtis, editor of the
Harvard College paper: Frank w. Hack
ett Fl. w: Wiley and Archibald King, the
last-named representing the freshman class
Officers Chosen.
At a business meeting of the club held
before the dinner these officers were elected
for the coming year: President. Edward
| Lander: vice presidents. F. w. Hackett F.
T. Howe, John Sidney Webb, Walter
| Fewkes and Rev. P. NJ. Rhinelander; sec
rotary, Rev. J. Mcbride Sterrett; treasurer,
Pickering Dodge.
| These persons were elected to member
ship: Stephen s. Snow, J. A. Hill, Early
vernon Wilcox, Richard Thornton Fisher.
| q; Fred SchWarz, Herbert Putnam, P D.
Phair, Thomas A. Clark, Henry Grinnell.
Howard Atherton Cutler w D. Goddard
+. ii. Goodwin, Ernest NJ. Paddock, John
| A Brett, John Gorham Palfrey, William
FRAZIER Curtis, Charles s. Halves, Frank
Wilcox. w: B. Johnston, Henry s. Naphen,
John X. Macarthur, John Thayer A. S.
Hartwel Theodore Wilson and Jutaro
kcmura.
Anon; Among the guests at the dinner were
| Judge Edward Lander, John W. Hayden,
| secretary John d.. Long, J. NJ. Fry, Prof.
simon Newcomb, George Lawrence. Alfred
| s Hartweli. Frank Warren Hackett, Prof
l II. IL,
H. Putnam, J. Mcmillan, Frank Wiggles-
worth Clark. Edwin Rufus Lewis, G. Cow
ard, B. Pickman Mann, James Mcbride
sterrett, Thomas A. Chatard. Charles E.
| Munroe, Frank H: Bigelow, Prof. Harvey
w. Wiley, Henry s. BoutelI, William Hen
ry Moody. Henry E, DAVIS, Judge John K.
Richards. John Q. A. Brett. Minister Ju-
! taro Komura, Edward Henry strobel,
Charles Moore. Lucius N. Littauer, Henry
| 8. Naphen, Pickering Dodge, Henry Ives
Cobb. H. Randall Webb. Herbert Putnam,
Joseph Adnu Hill. John R. Macarthur DAN
lei Lyman Hazard, George Edmund Foss.
James Mccormick, George B. Leighton,
George c. Deane Frank H. Hitchcock.
John B. Henderson. jr.. Rev. P. M. Rhine
lander, R: Ross Perry, 5r., Howe Totten.
Charles Sumner Halves, F. Wayland
Vaughn, Frank c. Schrader, Howard A.
Cutler. Ralph Sheldon Hosmer. Sylvester
Dwight Judd. G. Fred Schwarz, Philip De-
witt Phair. Clarence r. Wilson, John Ora
ham Palfrey, William Dean Goddard. John
r. Proctor. jr., Richard Thornton Fisher,
Frazier Curtis: John Thayer, A. Newell
Sayre. H. c. Ffoulke Archibald King, Jno.
w. Taylor. Henry Grinnell, N. T. Wilson,
John Wesley Powell. David L: Whiting
| ton, Walden Unger and Henry Adams.
The dinner committee consisted of Messrs