The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-06
LOWELL IS INSTALLED.
New President of Harvard Is In
Quoted Into Office.

Cambridge, Mass. Oct 6.-Scho1-
ars, scientists and theoIogians, today
paid tribute to Abbott Lawrence
Lowell as he pledged himself before
president of Americas Oldest edu-
cational institution.
1t is forty years since the old
brick buildings looked down upon the
then youthful Charles William Eliot
at a similar inauguration.
The ceremony was held out of
doors. with the principal actors on a
temporary stage built against the ivy
covered walls of the university hall
of the building with depth sufficient
to seat nearly a thousand people, in
Guiding a chorus of 200.
Over them waved the crimson ban
ners of the university. with the great
veritas seal resDlendent in colors on
the broad wall behind In front
white, eagle tipped STATS. bore the
seals of the eight next oldest Amer
Yale, University of Pennsylvania.
Princeton, Washington and Lee,
Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth.
Two taller stats supported the In
dian seal of state and the eagle en-
blem of the nation. Before this stage
tators.
The preliminary interest conferred
in the great assembly in front of the
old halls of Massachusetts,. Stoughton.
full brilliancy of the academic gowns
were seen.
Order of the Day.
The following was the order of the
principal exercises of the day:
Choral: Laudete Dominum (Con-
verse)-The alumni chorus.
Prayer-Rev. w. W. Fem. dean OF
the faculty of divinity.
Grafton in Latin-Lester Burton
Struthers, senior.
Induction of the president-By
John D. Long, president of the board
of overseers.
Response-The president.
choral: Domino Sa1vum (Gounod)
The alumni chorus.
Inaugural address-The president
Choral: Great Is Jehovah (Schu-
hertz THE alumni chorus.
Comforting of honorary degrees
The president.
Lawrence.
The foreign delegates were easily
distinguishable by the color of their
gowns with James Bryce, the British
prominent in scarlet and
crimson of doctor of oxford univer-
sity and a hat of black velvet. The
procession was of great length. mos
n Perkins, of the board of oVerseers,
the chief marshal of the day marched
alone. Following in line by twos came
the president of the alumni assocla-
ton and the president of the univer-
sity, the fellows of the corporation,
the governor and lieutenant governor
of the state, the governors military
staff and the dignitaries, civil, educa-
tional, military and naval
Sheriff Tarbairn, CARRIED in blue
brass buttoned swallow tailed coat
and wearing his official sword, called
tho Gathering to order.
The Inaugural Address.
The ceremony of Induction having
been completed, President Lowell de-
ivered his inaugural address He
lweIt largely with the development of
The college of the old type and in the
course of the address said:
"A discussion of the ideal college
raining would appear TO lead to the
conclusion that the best type of lib
aral education in our complex modern
world aims at producing men who
know a little of everything and some
hing we'll. Nor, if this be taken in
L rational rather than an extreme
sense is it impossible to achieve with |
n the limits of college life.
THAT student of ability can learn |
,ne subject we'll is shown by the ex- |
oerience of the honor schools of Ok !
ord and Cambridge. but for us this I
our preparatory schools do not give
he same training as the English and |
because the whole structure of the |
English society is very different from
,urs. For American students the |
wise policy would appear to be that |
If devoting a considerable portion of |
heir time to some one subject, and |
aking in addition a number of gem
,ral courses in wholly unrelated |
ields."