The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-06
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ident c. w. Eliot of Harvard UnlVer-
sity called on the prince. Gov Crane
remained but a few minutes. Shortly
after his departure the prince started
for the state house, where he was re-
ceived by the governor. the lieutenant
governor and the heads of the military
and naval forces and the state depart
ment
After the formal introductions a short
time was spent in conversation. This
was interrupted by Sergeant alarms
Davis, who appearing announced that
the legislature was in joint session to
greet the prince.
VISITS LEGISLATURE.
Gov. Crane conducted Prince Henry
to the hall of the house of representa-
tives The visitors were received with
applause. The prince merely bowed in
acknowledgements Without further for
mality the party left the state house,
proceeding to the public library where
the prince was to pay his respects to
Mayor Collins. Here he received the
members of the city government also
and met 30 veterans of German wars.
Mayor Collins introduced the veterans.
One of them made cordial address and
the prince replied in German. He eX-
pressed delight at seeing the veterans
and shook hands with each of them.
Following the reception the prince
was escorted by Mayor Collins through
the library. Returning. to the Hotel
Somerset Prince Henry received Judge
Francis Q. Lowell and Henry L. Hig
ginson representing the corporation of
Harvard University and at 1 O'clock
started with them for Cambridge.
The first stop was at the Cambridge
city hall where McNamee presented the
greeting of the city of Cambridge in an
deliberately engrossed form. One thou
sand school children of the city sang
upon the arrival of the prince.
Soon after o'clock the party reached
Harvard. They were received by Presi-
dent Eliot at Memorial hall and the
members of the corporation of the uni
versity were presented to the prince.
Then the visitors were conducted to
Sanders theater where the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Laws was conferred
upon Prince Henry by President Eliot.
The president said
PRESIDENT ELIOTS SPEECH.
This occasion is unique. Twice in the
history of the university special aca-
deTnic session been held to do honor to
the president of the United States, MAX
ing progress through the country;
but never before has this democratic
university been called together on pur-
pose to do honor to a foreign prin -e.
Weighty reasons must have determined
such unprecedented action on the part
of this society of scholars.
These are the reasons:
Our students of history know the
Teutonic sources, in the dim past OF
many institutions and public customs
which have been transmitted through
England to this New England.
The Puritan origin of the university
makes us hold in grateful remembrance.
the heroes OF ntlSnl--LutEer
Melanchthon, Erasmus and their kindred
spirits-and the German princes who
upheld that precious cause through long
years of confused alarms and cruel
warfare. The puritan government Ct
Massachusetts had followed anxiously
the vicissitudes of the 30-year war ard
was in the habit of ordering public
thanksgiving to God for good news
from Germany
In watching the social and ethnologi-
cal phenomena of our own times we
have seen the largest contribution which
a European people made in the nine
tenth century to the population of the
United States came from Germany and
that the German quota was not only the
most numerous, but the best educated.
AS university men we feel the in
mense weight of obligation under which
America rests to the technical schools
and universities of the German Father
land. From them thousands of eager
American students have drawn instruc-
ton and inspiration, and taken exam
pie. AT this moment hundreds of Amer
lean teachers, who call some German
university their foSter-mother are at
work in schools, colleges and universe
ties all the way from this icy seacoaSt
to the hot Philippines.
Our men of letters and science know
we'll the unparalleled contributions Ger
many has made since the n iddle of the
nineteenth century to pure knowledge
and also to science applied in the new
arts and industries which within so