The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-22
Secretary Stokes Expresses Surprise That a Football Player Like Lake Should
 Make Address.
WOODRUFF COMPEL IMENTED
Lieutenant-Govcrnor Pays Tribute to His Chicf--Presidcnt Eliot Looks to the
 Future.

Invading the territory of their dearest enemy as Charles H. Beckwith of Springfield said sixty Harvard gradu- ates met last night in New Haven and formed a Harvard club for the gradu- ates who live in Connecticut The of- ficers of tho club are:
 Edward A. Hartman of this city, president: Lieutenant Governor Ever cit J. Lake of Hartford. Dr. Samuel M. Garllck of Bridgeport and Rev. Henry sterrctt of New Haven. vice prcsi- dents; Clement C. Hyde of Hartford, secretary.
 Rev. James DeWolf Perry of this lclty acted as toastmaster, fulfilling the functions of the office admirably. The first speaker, after the grads had sung several Harvard songs. was Lieutenant Governor Lake the former Harvard 1 football player. who was introduced by Mir. Perry AS having accomplished great things for Harvard on the grid l iron and in public life.
 l Mir Lake opened his address with a 1 tribute to Yale, calling Yale a worthy competitor of Harvard, university which has made and isN still making history in Connecticut. Yet Yale. he said, started it's work by conferring honorary degrees on five graduates of i Harvard,
 Think, said he. of how Yale's pres l ent strong relations with Princeton started Peinee.on came up here and l oel,oa t,o loy;eiat,r, fo, ,,o,n,;ecion to start a lottery in Connecticut to sup port a university in New Jersey. II promised, if the permission was grant cd. to be always friendly with Connee- ticut instit ltons. Tho permission was given and that, he said, is the basis for the tilial relationship between Princeton and Yale.
 He spoke on tho great field for the college man in public life but said that the part of the business men should not be underestmated. In this con nection he spoke of Governor Woodruff of Connecticut. man who though h. has no college diploma. Is showing ai the courage in his actions that Presi dent Roosevelt Harvard's most prom irent praduate. does ill his.
 Charles H. Beckwith, who snole fo the Connecticut Valley Harvard club told of the work of his organization and the possibilities of one in Con necticut. He said that the formation of such clubs did much to keep up tn social life of the graduates and to ge , others to come to Harvard.
 After Mir. Beckwith had finished Sec
 retary Anson Phelps Stokes of Yale
 spoke for the Connecticut college. n
 orchestra playing Heres to Dear Ol'
 Yale" as a prelude Mr. Stokes said ,l was greatly surprised at the gatherine 7 They had asked a Harvard football nlaver tn deliver an address when Il expected some research student woul
 sneak. He had always looked upel Harvard as a model of decorum, bu when in that very gathering he hear' President Eliot sing General Grant : with the greatest enthusiasm, he wa greatly surprised.
 ? Adopting q more serious vein, NJ Stokes said that while he was a sir1 [ believer in the democracy of Yale, T l though that as at Harvard. mere al . tention should be paid in developin @ the individual. He compared Yale an l Harvard in various respects. showin ' inc two universities fundamental Q similar.
 President Eliot of Harvard close
 the speaking. He spoke of the forms
 ton of Harvard clubs throughout tf
 country and in Eur rlpe. He said tn;
 the work of the universities would n, h effect orlv this country but all tt
 world. Business courses would be ait
 d soon t6 Harvard, graduate eours. e for managers. So great had the dt e nland for college men in this line Ii work become. He spoke of the pione, VI work Yale had done with its Fore Y school. Such work Harvard would { 1f with it's business school. lAll unive
 sites ke said. will later become lil IF each other differing only in ioc
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