The evening times., 1900-03-28
RECEIVES A LOVING CUP.
students Testify tO Their Esteem for
DIR. whitman.

DR.. Benaiah L. Whitman, President OF
Columbian University, was last night pre-
sented with a beautiful silver loving cup
The gift came from the students in the
University. and was presented by John w.
Holcombe during an intermission in Dr.
Whitmans lecture on Political History.
In presenting the token of esteem Mr.. Hol-
combe said
DR. Whitman, we have a series Of i'm
pressons Of you. We see you on this Plat
form in a magnetic and stimulating form,
unfolding to us in vivid pictures, pregnant
phrases. and lively wit the whole pano-
rama of human history. Our next picture
OF you is in the future. We see you seat
ed in your study, the walls lined with
books and wisdom OF the ages under your
hand a huge manuscript, in which, ro-
bust If not a lonely and athletic student,
you have compacted into a syllabus the
vast cycle Of all the theologists. Now We
hope and believe, that while here you have
drawn some inspiration from the faces
along the benches. and we wish you 10
take with you souvenir of us. IL will
please US to see as a modest accessory in
the picture ! have last drawn, this cup
at your elbow, as you burn the midnight
oil.
I'VE ask you TO accept this cup as our
recognition of the intellectual achievement
of condensing the entire history of man
kind into a syllabus, such a syllabus as
never was written, a remarkable and bril-
liant piece of work We are sorry the syl-
labus is completed We shall miss your
lectures. We shall miss the enthusiasm
in which you mad la bored nightly for US"
Concluding his address. Mr.. Holcombe
said: We have heard with great regret
that you have resigned the Presidency of
the Columbian University at time, when
as the feature of your administration, with
your earnest help and counsel, the dream
Of the University has just been realized in
the establishment OF this School of Com
parative Jurisprudence and Diplomacy.
We the students Of the school of the first
two classes enrolled, completing the or
ganizatio in all its courses, part from you
in real sorrow. We hope you will remem-
ber us with pleasure, knowing that you
carry with you our respectful and affec-
tionate regards.
Mr.. Hocombe's speech was applauded.
He handed TO DR. Whitman the cup and
the applause was renewed
DR. Whitman. in reply. made feeling
and earnest response. He said that his
success in preparing the syllabus referred
to was due to the sympathetic and earnest
cooperation of the students. To illustrate
their success in trayersing the vast
amount laid out in the course of study,
Dr. Whitman likened the students TO King
Williams soldiers, who had performed an
impossibility, when, in the war with
France. they stormed the heights OF
Spicheren. DR.. Whitman thanked the
class for the live interest they had evil
denced in the lectures during the scholas-
tic year. and assured them of his high re-
gard and affection.
The cup which was presented is Of mas
sive silver. standing eight and one-quarter
inches in height, holding about six quarts.
Ii has three solid silver handles. The cup
bsars the inscription: Benaiah Whitman,
Columbian University, School OF Compare
tive Jurisprudence and Diplomacy"
Last nights lecture was Dr.. Whitman's
last lecture before the School of Jurispru-
dence and Diplomacy He will leave about
April ! for Philadelphia where he will
take charge of the Calvary Baptist Church.