The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-02

Technology he endeavored to have con-
solidated with Harvard This effort
eliminated in 1894 and was abandoned
only after certain wild and memo
rable night, when '.tech" students in
full force rent the air with a profane
and deep lunged chorus of ITO 49,
with Harvardw 1t is intimated that
the effort to join the two great schools
Is not yet over and that this is one of
the secrets of the choice of Lowell to
succeed President Eliot.
Close Friends Of Long Standing.
The marriage of Professor Lowell in
PRODUCES again his romantic attach
ment to his cousin, Judge Francis CS
Lowell. The two were boyhood friends,
roommates and classmates in college
and business partners in later life, and
Judge Lowell is now member of the
college corporation of seven that has
chosen Professor Lowell to its presi1
dency. More striking still, Abbott
Lawrence Lowell married Anna Par
ker Lowell, his cousin and sister of
Judge Lowell. This makes the bond
between the two men about as close
as can exist between human beings.
The friendship of Damon and Pythias
or David and Jonathan was not whit
closer than that between these two
who have been more than brothers.
OF the ability of DIR. Lowell to take
up the work laid down by Americas
greatest educator there is no doubt
expressed by those who know him
best. To ripe scholarship he adds tact,
a knowledge of affairs, executive aptit
tude and experience, a literary style
that has brought him reputation LII
many lands and long career as a.
keen and brilliant lecturer, whose lucid
talks and apt anecdotes have made his
class room one of the most popular Lii
Harvard.
Great Educational Reformer
He succeeds a hard man for anyE
body but giant to follow. Charles
William Eliot has taken rank with the
greatest college presidents of the
world. A teacher in the strict sense OF
the term he has never been. An edu.
cational Feformer, man who cub
loose from traditions and made new
system, who took higher education OUT
of the deadly and repressive uniform
ity that had before bound IL. w1i
brought in the elective system, whl
outlined the new education not onll
for colleges, but for the public schools
who put natural methods in place ok
artificial ones, who recognized that thk
greatest thing in the world is the inl.
dividual human soul, who bore nlisurl
Outstanding and hatred for quartelI
of a century in order that he might
carry out his ideals and who finallk
lived to see his work universally adj
cepted-such is Eliot. Some one re-
Gently called him the greatest living
| American. AS to that do not know
Comparisons are unfair, and PresiderEl
Eliot does not need them. He is gTeai
enough in himself to stand alone with
out seeking to magnify him by mimi
MIXING others. This is the sort OF maj
large in body, brain, will and soulF
that Abbott Lawrence Lowell is callds
on to succeed. To fill that place viii
require more than family connections
more than scholarship, no matter HOY
ripe; more than wealth or any othh
outward thing whatsoever. 1t win oh
maSd inherent power grasp, initinti3l
and ability. Whether or not the nef
man VII measure UP TO the standallI
time alone can determine. His friend
tkiny nc VIII. Tie world at large d9ls
mot know enough about him to fort