The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-14
HARYARD'S PRESIDENT.
TALE GREETS DIR. ELIOT IN
 WOOLSEY HALL.

SResembIances and Differences Among
 the American Universities,' Discussed
 Before q Large AssembIage.
 Charles w. Eliot, president of Har- yard university, gave last night the first of the Harvard lectures, which was made possible by an anonymous grad uate of Harvard recently, who gave to the corporation of Yale university a fund of $10,000, the income of which was to be used to promote good rela- ttons between the two universities.
 The corporation decided to use the in come of this fund to procure from time to time, lectures and instruction at Yale by men connected with Harvard. Presi- dent Eliot consented to be the first lecturer on tt,is foundation. The Occa- sion was notable one, not only on ac- count of the importance of the subject and the reputation of the speaker, but also on account of the new form of CO., operation between Yale and Harvard, of which this is the beginning.
 President Eliot Is at present one of the most distinguished men of the coun- try, and rightly so. For thirty years he has been the president of Harvard uni versity, and in this position he has been able to bring about many reforms in education and in matters affecting uni Yersity curriculum.
 It was mainly through his efforts that the elective system, now used in the foremost American universities, was first introduced at Harvard. President Eliot Is also very well known as an orator and writer, and is idolized by the alumni and the Harvard student body.
 Dr. Eliot's subject was: "Resem- blances and Differences Among the American Universities"
 Promptly at o'clock Dr. Eliot and Dr. Hadley appeared on the platform of Woolsey hall. Instantly as Harvard s president was recognized Yale's ap- plause resounded throughout the large edif1ce.
 In his introduction President Hadley of Yale said that the speaker of the evening, through his commanding posi- tion in the educational life of the coun- try and his leadership in bringing about reforms in matters effecting university curriculum needed no Introduction to an American audience.
 President Eliot in taking up his subject dealt first with the consti- tutional organization of American uni versailles and state institutions; their forms of government; their dis cipline, and the programme of studies, pointing out the fact that there are di- versailles among them the tendency to- ward the same constitution is strong and that in administration nearly all are patterned after the governing board of Harvard college originally created by the general court of Massa- chusetts bay in 1642. He showed the tendency of recent legislation to bring the governing bodies of the institutions to a common plane, in which the amount of political control is being steadily diminished, religious denomina- tions are losing their influence. and wherein the graduates of an institution as such are coming into possession of more power over it.
 Another respect in which American institutions resemble each other Presi- dent Eliot said, is in the constitution and functions of body of teachers for the faculty and In the relation of that body to the governing board and to the students. He also said that an Ameri- can faculty almost always feels a strong sense of responsibility for the conduct of their students and gives much thought to the effects of their teachings and rules and of the common academic life on the character of the student. In this connection President Eliot pointed out the difference in the relations of professors in English and continental universities toward their students as compared with the rela- lions between the American college professors and the students brough un- der his control. He said in the former instance it was the survival of an anti uuated discipline while in the latter it was the development of the university spirit.
 President Eliot also pointed out that all the American colleges had now adopted the elective system of studies, though not all to the same degree or extent. He said that the use of the ele- nentary subjects to make up @ pre- scribed course for the freshman and sophomore years, subjects which right fully belong to the secondary school is only temporary policy and its com- plete disappearance in American col leges and universities is only a question of time for its evils are considerable. He spoke of the slow growth of what is now called the elective system,' and pointed out that it was only sixty years since Francis Wayland published a work which led few years later to the temporary adoption of a voluntary method at Brown university. He then