Evening star., 1902-02-15
FAIR HARvARD'S SONS :
Animal Dinner Held at the
New Willard.
A LARGE ATTENDANCE
SOME GOOD FosT-PRANDIAL AID.
DRESSES MADE.
Letter From the President RegrcttinS
His Absence-Elect;on Of
Officers.

Fair Harvard His Name Was
Michael Roy" Here's To John Harvard
and dozen other songs OF like spirit
sounded through the banquet han Of The
New Willard last night from eighty ,asty
throats. Some of the singers were nearly
past the singing age, and made up in spirit
what was lacking in volume, bu; the ma
jority of those about the tables voiced lus-
tly their devotion to the noble old ins;itu-
ton OF learning from which they We're
graduated. The occasion was the annual
banquet of the Harvard Club of Washing
ton. and in the true sense OF the word
applied 20 such dinners the meeting was
one of the most successful in the history Of
the organization.
Election of Officers.
An election of officers. which was I;:le
more than a formality, occurred before the
alumni filed into the banquet hall. Judge
Edward Lander president Of the club for
life, was unanimously invited to continue
in office another year. and the meeting
room rang with applause the venerable
graduate. whose diploma dates back sky
five years, assumed the chair as presiding
officer. Mr.. +. w. HaclSett. former assist
ant secretary of the navy: Dr.. Harvey W.
Wiley chemist of the Agricultural Depart
ment: AIR. Charles Moore, Mr. Howe Tot
ten and Mr.. Vivian Burnett were elected
vice presidents. Mr.. Pickering Dodge and
Rev. J. Mcbride Sterrett were reelected
treasurer and secretary. respectively.
The tables in the banquet hall were set
as the three sides of a square, with PTesi-
dent Lander and the more distinguished
guests in the middle so as TO face all the
others. The menu, which was as inviting
even Harvard men could ask, was inter-
spersed with numerous songs by Mr. how
ara 0. Cook and a chorus of younger grad
yates. When the time came for the coffee
and cigars the men about the table had re-
vived nearly all the old spirit of their stu
dent days and leaned back in their chairs
to enjoy to the full the addresses with
which the dinner was to end
The Speech-Making.
Judge Lander recalled the Harvard OF
his day, when a favorite diversion was to
run to fires all about Cambridge and Cam
bridgeport. This introduction brought
rush of memories to the heart of Solicitor
General Richards. The latter had hardly
spoken a line when the students began to
applaud tumultu0usly. We have proof OF
the great men Harvard has given to the
country he said in conclusion. of the
she has given to the world and OF
those she will give. She needs no words
from me from any Of her graduates
What she does speaks for itself. Has she
not recently given Yale Il defeat she Will
not forget in ten years? Doesn't the criIl-
son flag of old Harvard now float over the
White House?"
Something about Presidents as told by
the toastmaster served to introduce Col.
Sanger the assistant Secretary of War.
Harvard had sent three men to the White
House and Yale none. Three had gone
from the University of Virginia and one
from Princeton. But the two greatest
Observation-Disclosures and IincolH-had
not been graduates of any college.
Col. Sanger said, further:
university training is not essential TO
material success; we see on every side
81 rjkinp eyiGe Of this. hilt marked
effect Of life at our great universities, and
/ think pre-eminently at Harvard, IS that
men take with them out into the worsd
high ideals In some cases devotion to an
ideal results in ignoring those practical
considerations which necessary To the
attainment of material results. | for one
believe that there is need in this world of a
certain number of men who have this in
tense devotion to the principles ii which
they believe; and such men, with honesty of
purpose and high standards, do good, even
if they fail to attain what the world ordi-
nariiy calls success.
Then there are others who while holding
to their ideals recognize the limitations
which hamper them and without striving
for the impossible attempt TO make tho
conditions which surround them approNi-
mate. nearly as may be. to the ideal
standard We are fortunate IL having for
our President such type Of man. 1T is no
mere university pride which makes us re-
joice that he is one of us for we can feel
that the country will be benefited whenever
q man In nlSn ONCE strives, 80 idT IT'S tIo
practical conditions of the world will per-
nit to reach his ideals.
Col Sanger began by reading the follow
ing letter from the President:
white House, February II, 1892.
MY Dear Sir: The President has re-
quested me to express to you his great ap-
precia ton of the invitation extended to
him for the dinner of the Harvard Club
this evening. He earnestly wishes that he
could be with you tonight, but as he has
just returned from Groton. he finds SO
much imme dia tie business on hand that It
will be Impossible for him to step in for q
short time, as he had hoped to do. He
sends congratulations and best wishes to
those present at the dinner. Very respects
fully.
GEORGE B. CORTELyCC. Secretary.
ITO Judge Edward Lander"
Tribute to Secretary Long.
Mr.. Hackett, who followed Col. Sanger,
took occasion to pay Secretary long trib-
ute as lone of the best men Harvard has
produced" When he had concluded Mr.
John H. Gray, once an instructor in nolit-
ical economy in Harvard. but now stationed
at the Northwestern University. talked
pleasantly of Harvard associations i'll the
west Other brief talks were made by Mr.
r. Ross Perry, jr.: Treasurer Pickering
Dodge, Mr.. Herbert Putnam librarian OF
Congress; Mr. Osmonde Willard. editor OF
the New York Evening Post; Rev L. G b.
Pierce and DR.. Wiley. The last named
convused his hearers with half dozen
Jokes on recent announcements he had read
concerning the alma mater.
The dinner committee was composed OK
Messrs. Charles Moore H. Randall Webb
and Pickering Dodge.
Those Who Were Present.
Among those who attended the dinner
were G. 3. Richardson. s. F. Emmons. Al-
fred III. Brooks, F. c. Schrader, Thomas NJ.
Chatard, Frank II. Hitchcock. l.. n. Lit"
tauer H r. Webb. Charles Moore, Picker
ing Dodge, ]. S. Diller, Arthur Keith, IL. A.
Cutler, D. w. Lord, A. j. Collier. u. Pick.
man Mann, F. w. Hackett, Herbert Scott
Smith, Louis l.. Hooper, w. c. Mendenilaff,
H. W. Wiley, Arthur Macdonald, George
S. Chase, Bernard r. Green, Rev .. q.
Pierce, Daniel Hazard, Z. b. McGetrick. r.
Ross Perry, jr.: c. II. Chapman, William
NJ Gale Robert L. O'Brien, Simon New
comb, c.. II. Lincoln, F. l.. Ransom, Aller-
ton Cushman, William B. Todd, p. d.
Phair, Vivian Burnett, Cleveland Able.
William Able, Fritz V. Brfesen, j. p.
Jones, William E. Chandler. j. X. Richards.
William Hitz. Edward Lander c. II. Stone.
Franklin T. Howe, c. X. Robinson, Thomas
H. Clark, Howe Totten, A. c. Bradley,
Wayiand T. Vaughan, Joseph A. Hill,
Henry r. Wilder, J. McB. Sterrett, n. J..