New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-03-07
PRINCE A HARVARD Ii. D.
EMPEROR CONCENTRATES
HLN ON HIS NEW HONOR.
MASSACHUSETTS AND BOSTON Off.
AND CORDIAL WELCOME.
rsy TELEGRAPH To The rRIsuSEI


Henry was hearty, sincere and not overdone
The decorations were general and. the storm
considered. astonishingly profuse and excellent
Immense crowds cheered the visitor at all points
of sightseeing vantage The programme. sx-
tensfve it was. was carried out promptly and
without a regrettable incident.
The Boston attentions TO the Prince consisted
of the municipalities welcome. conveyed by
Mayor Collins and other representatives. who
met the train ar the South station: a military
escort TO the Somerset Hotel. battery salute
on the Common. a reception by the mayoralty
at the public library. meeting with Governor
Crane tour Of the State House. and a ban
quet at the Hotel Somerset. at which Secretary
Long and ex-Secretary Olney were the chief
speakers.
All these features OF course resembled greet
ings elsewhere. But the Prince found an abso-
lutely unique welcome Harvard University
The student host turned out to a man. and
Raid" and Fair Harvarded'' with vim. pre-
cison and lung force that aroused all OF Prince
>Henry's reserve enthusiasm. His reception ar
the Harvard Union, where a brief address.
original poem, songs, such as Fair Harvard
Watch on the Rhine and football melodies
formed the real climax Of his visit. The Prince
received and read a congratulatory telegram from
Emperor William The conferring OF the degres
of LII d. in Sanders Theatre, was marked BIZ
fessor Munsterberg's the Prince presented for
the Germanic Museum of the University photo
graphs of the casts Of objects now in prepara-
t1on IN Germany which the Kaiser will send to
Cambridge in midsummer
The special train that carried the Primes
halted for few moments at Springfield but
passed through Worcester where the plan to
hold a reception was abandoned. owing 10 the
earliness of the hour. Boston was reached az
950 o'clock When the special halted in South
Station Mayor Collins and a delegation OF city
officials boarded the car Columbia and were in
troduced to the Prince by Ambassador Won
Holleben. There was an exchange Of greetings.
and the Prince. his staff and the members OF the
American escort were shown TO carriages
Lines OF cavalrymen formed around them and.
accompanied by the naval militiamen, through
streets held open by the police they drove IN
the Hotel Somerset. The people were packed be-
hind the police lines. and every building was
crowded gallery. Flags and streanlers hung
over the heads of the thousands who called or
waved a CHEEKY welcome TO the Prince as he
rode past with Mayor Collins. Admiral Evans
and John Wilkie, chief Of the United States
Secret Service.
The Prince wore his naval uniform and ac-
knowledsed the greetings with his Character
tStc salute A. the Hotel Somerset the Prince
surrounded by his staff in full uniform received
brilliant staff and when the call ended tha
Prince started ar once for the State House 70
return the courtesy. Naval reserves formed in
two lines that extended from the street to The
portals. made way for the entrance Of The
Prince After he had paid his respects TO Gov
ernor Crane he entered the House OF Repre-
Sentatives. where the legislature was in session
and was presented from the forum by President
Soule Of the Senate. Leaving the chamber. he
re-entered his carriage. and was driven TO the
Public Library. where he returned the call OF
Mayor Collins
Thirty-hve veterans who fought with the
grandfather Of the Prince in the Franco -Prussan
War, were presented ar the library. and the
Prince shook hands with them all and asked as
70 their old regiments and the character OF
their service.
returned 70 the Somerset and after short
wait there started for Cambridge. Mayor Nc
Nance gave him the freedom Of the city OF
Cambridge, and the school children sang for him
at the City Hall
DEGREE OF LID CONFERRED.
At the university ne was taken to MenlortaI
Hall. where he met the corporation OF the col
lege, and then To Sanders Theatre. where the.
degree was conferred. President Eliot. who ap-
Prince follows.
This occasion is unique Twice in the history o.
held to do honor to the President Of me Tnits5
i 5sI MAKING bago- gsosrSSs through The GGuntFy
Sreg loren Tasq {9setRer On purpose TO do honor 70
ternired tIC6 ,,TDrscljs,Ie3 s-1t,-I - - 80
OF this Society Of Scholars
These are the reasons
Our students OF history know Ne Teutouis
public customs which have 6seI trsnsmitrsd sfts
through England 70 this New-EngIard
hold IN grateful remembrance the heroes os
unb,F Istu % @ SplFltSa1a me CIern1an princes who
ne HP1S9 5hs[ precious cause through l21g years OF
governments OF Massachusetts followed anxiousiy
The yicissitudes of the Thirty Years War. and
TO God for good news from Germany"
nomena Of our own times We have seeR that the
IN the nineteenth century to the popnsT6r f 1Ss
United states came from Germany, and that the
but the best educated
As university men We feel the immense weight
Of obligation under which America rests 70 Ths
Iechnlcal sch9ols and universities o. the German
can students have drawn instruction ana inspira-
of American teachers who cali some German uni
versity their foster mother work in schools
seacoast the hot Philippines
Our men OF letters and science know we'll the IN
the middle OF the nineteenth century to pure knowi
and industries which within ffty years have 50
nature 81 '"-" %
Our whole people have the profoundest sympathy
In a great union Of federated States bound to-
gether by common language, by uaresrrtctsd
mutual trade, by common currency. mails means
OF communication, courts OF Justice and fnstttu-
tiOns OF credit and finance. and inspired BY a
passionate patriotism Such is the venerable
American Union; such The young German Empire
We gladly welcome here to-day a worthy repre-
sentative OF German greatness. worthy in station
profession and character. We see in him how
ever. something more than the representative OF a
superb nationality and imperial ruler. Unit
versities have long memories. Forty years ago m.
American Union in deadly peril. and thou
sands OF its young men were bleeding and dying
for it. II Is credibly reported that at very criti
cal moment the Queen OF England said to her
Prime Minister; My Lord. YOU must understand