Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-08
FAIR HARVARD's SONS
Their Annual Banquet at the
Raleigh.
r. W. HAckETT PRESIDED
Speeches Made by Secretary Taft,
Justice Brown and Others.
KEYNOTE OF THE ADDRESSES
Let the Ancient University Still Keep
It's Foremost Place in the
Scholastic Field.
KEYNOTE OF THE ADDRESSES

song and music last night, when the dignity
and impressive calm of Harvard unbent for
its annual banquet at the Raleigh. Grim
son colcrs in pennants, streamers, ribbons
and flowers made the scene brilliant, and
music of the gayest and most inspiriting
character kept time with the courses of the
dinner.
The membership of the club, which in
cludes graduates from the thirties to the
present year, who have spread over the
entire country and who assemble with a
general cosmopolitanism, last night became
| entirely patriotic, and would acknowledge
no precedence of any institution even IL
the presence of Justice Brown of the Su-
preme Court or Secretary Taft, both OF
| Yale.
| Young and old, the latest fiedgiing and
| the gravest and most distinguished scholar
| alike, melowed by the music, the lights, the
colors and the subtle influences of this
| menu, set the rafters of the banquet hall
| ringing with Harvard glees.
Many distinguished guests were present,
Brown, President Needham Of George
| Washington University, Mr.. Robert Bacon,
| assistant secretary of state, Mr.. Ion Per-
dicaris. President s. M. Hill of Seattle and
| Col. Weston Flint.
| The Speech-Mak
| Frank w. Hackett, vice president of the
| alumni association, acted toast master
and called first for toast to the venerable
| Judge Lander, the president of the club,
| who, for the first time in many years, was
unable to be present, and then he called on
Justice Brown. who paid the club a much
| applauded tribute by saying that though
| he is a Yale man and can claim association
| with Harvard only through a six months
! course in law, part of which was summer
| term, no period of his life is such pleasant
| memory as those six months. The regret of
| his life has been that he was not per-
| mf.ted to profit by two years of work in
| the greatest law school in the country.
| Secretary Taft, with characteristic humor,
spoke of decisions upon the bench which
| Justice Brown had made in consequence of
/ six months at Harvard which rendered it
\ a forceful problem as to what he might
| have done had he spent eighteen more
/ months there.
| President Needham of George Washington
| amid great applause repeated himself most
| emphatically that Harvard is the greatest
| univ ersity of America. and made plea for
| a community of interests among colleges
The German plan, he said, by which a
| student is enabled to profit by the best in
| any institution. while returning finally to
take his degree at his own university, would
| do much to promote an economy of equip
ment and breadth Of culture making for
| great progress in university life.
Mr. Ion Perdicaris conplimented the Pres
! ident of the United States and gratefully
|
interest and care for the individual which
rescued him from the hands Of Raisouli.
One Warning Note.
The one warning note of the evening was
| sounded by President HILL who after COM
| plimenting Secretary Taft as promoter of
| transportation in the Panama canal spoke
| being trustee of Harvard University, of
| the necessity of Harvard men rallying to
| the support of Harvard, that to the old
halls might come men from all over the
| country. AS western man his exper ience
he said. has been that Harvard men are
| not numerous in great western university
clubs, and he felt that with an exhausted
| New England Harvard must gain her sup
| port, If she is to live. by the active work of
| her men In promoting supply of new blood
| from the south and the far west
Robert L. O'Brien made, in toast to the
| ladies', many of whom occupied the balcony
| as spectators, decided hit by incidentally
reminding Secretary Taft that Poultney
! Bigelow is Yale man and of the Secre-
| tary's own class.
Dr. Wiley of pure food interest spoke of
| pure foot ball, and earnestly defended the
game as sport in which the best of the
| spirit of struggle may be developed
College glees and Richard Hoveys stein
| song We're sandwiched in between the ad-
| dresses Mr.. Percival Hall, Mr.. Edgar D.
/ Shaw and Mr.. Philip F. Gerry with a sne-
| cial chorus group, led the singing
| DR.. Wiley's Menu.
| The menu was printed In Latin and
| though many of those present probably
| had forgotten the verbs of their college
| days. there was one line familiar to all:
"Spirtus frumenti mixtus ad consterna-
| tionem." Caffea nigra also found resting
| place in the comprehension of many, and
| even "Roquefortius'' could not disguise the
| fact that "caseus" was that which Is known
| to the uninitiated as cheese
| The entire menu, attributed to DR.. Wiley.
| read as follows: Ostreae marinae Absecon-
| ceae. sorbitio clara testudins virldis api,1m
| graveolens, amygdala cum grano Sails
| olivae plenae piperis rubri evisceratae
| bolus ad MEDIUM regnae numisma rocci
| Lineau sicut Belgae faciunt, bulbi solani
| benedictini, assum bubulum admodum
| Richelieus, Pisa viridia, spiritus frumeuti
| mixtus ad consternationem, coturnix ASA
| in panem percoctum, acetaria horrendum
| ,iyfa mi bort ini