Los Angeles herald., 1909-10-07
HARVARD Halls
NEW PRESIDENT
ABBOT LOWELL lNAUGURATED
TO SUCCEED ELIOT
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY ATTENDS
CHANGE IN REGIME
Twenty-fourth Chief of Famous Edu-
cationaI Institute lnducted Into
Office in Keeping with Ven-
cradle Traditions
tBy Associated Press. ]

harmony with the traditions of Amer
icas oldest institution for higher ed
ucation.
In the presence of a great assem-
blage, Professor Lowell accepted the
insignia of office borne for forty years
by Charles William Eliot, his imme-
diate predecessor and was proclaimed
officially as Harvards twenty-fourth
president.
Scholars, scientists and theologians
paid tribute today to DR.. Lowell, as
he pledged himself before a great con-
course of people in the old Harvard
yard to the work of the presidency of
Americas Oldest educational institu-
tion.
1t is forty years since the old brick
buildings looked down upon the then
youthful Charles w. Eliot at a SINH
lar inaugural ton.
The ceremony today was held out of
doors. with the principal actors on a
temporary stage built against the ivy
covered walls of the university hall.
The stage extended the entire length
of the building, with a depth sufficient
to seat nearly 1000 persons, including
a chorus of 200.
Banners Waving
Over them waved the crimson ban
ners of the university, with the great
Vericas seal resplendent in colors on
the broad wall behind.
In front white eagle-tipped staffs
bore the seals of the next oldest eight
American colleges-William and Mary,
Yale, the University of Pennsylvania,
Princeton, Washington and Lee, Co
lumbia, Brown and Dartmouth.
Two taller StaffS SuDDOrted the In
dian seal of state and the eagle emb-
lem of the nation.
Before this stage were rows of seats
for the spectators. The preliminary
interest centered in the great assem-
bly, in front of the old halls of Massa-
chusetts, Stoughton and Holworthy.
1t was here that the full brilliancy of
the academic gowns was seen.
The following was the order of the
principal exercises of the day:
Choral "Laudate Dominum" (Con-
verse;, the alumni chorus; prayer,
Rev. w. w. Fem, dean of the facul-
ty of divinity; oration in Latin, Les
ter Burton Struthers, senior; induction
Of the president by John D. Long,
president of the board of overseers;
response, the president; choral, Dom
inc Salvum fac Praesidem Nostrum''
(Gounod), the alumni chorus; lnau-
gural address, the president; choral.
dTedI Is J6HONdn' NOCluDerC), dlu1nnl
chorus; comforting of honorary de-
grees, the president; benediction, Rt.
Rev. William Lawrence.
Gowns Different
The foreign delegates were easily dis
tinguishable by the color of their
gowns, with James Bryce, the British
ambassador, prominent in the scarlet
and crimson of a doctor of oxford uni
versity, and a hat of black velvet.
The procession was of great length
Thomas n. Perkins of the board of
oyerseers, the chief marshal of the day
marched alone. Following in line by
twos came the president of the Alumi
association and the president of the
university, the fellows of the corpora
tion, the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor of the state, the military staff OF
the governor and the dignitaries, civil
educational, military and naval.
Sheriff Fairbairn, garbed in a blue
brass -buttoned "swallowtailed" coat
and wearing his official sword, called
the gathering to order.
The ceremony of induction having
been completed, President Lowell de-
livered his inaugural address. He
dealt 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
training would appear to lead to the
conclusion that the best type of liberal
education in our complex modern world
aims at producing men who know a
little of everything and something we'll
Nor, If this be taken in a rational
rather than in an extreme sense, is Il
impossible to achieve this within the
limits of college life.
Experience convnces
"That student of ability can learn
one subject we'll is shown by the eX-
perience of the honor schools of Oxford
and Cambridge, but for us this alone
would not be enough, because our pre-
paratory schools do not give the same
the whole structure of English society
is very different from ours.
For American students the wise
policy would appear to be that of de-
voting a considerable portion of theiI
time to some one subject and taking In
association a number of general course
in wholly unrelated fields"
President Lowell conferred honorary
degrees upon thirty of the guests who
We're present. Among the recipients
of the degrees were:
Doctor of letters-James Bryce, Brit
ish ambassador to the United States
Joseph Bedier. delegate from the Col
lege de France; Edouard Meir dele
gate from the University of Berlin;
Francis Barton Gummere, delegate
from Haverford college; Thomas
Walker, professor of philosophy of
the University of Good Hope; Henry
Morse Stephens, delegate from the
University of California.
Doctor of laws-Nicholas Murray
Butler, president Of Columbia univer-
sity; Henry Pratt Judson, president
University of Chicago; Jacob G. Schur-
man, president Of Cornell university;
Otto Gierke, delegate from the Uni
versity of Berlin; William Peterson
principal McGill university.
Doctor of science-William Berry
man Scott delegate from Princeton
William Abbott Herdman, delegate
from University of Liverpool; George
Alexander Gibson, delegate from Uni
versity of Edinburg; Jacobus c. Kap-
tein. director of observatory Of Gron-
ingen: William Napier Shaw and John
Christopher Willis, delegates from
University of Cambridge; John Har-
ward Biles, delegate from University
of Glasgow: Hector Frederick Junger-
son, delegate from University of Co
penhagen; Elihu Thompson, prominent
in electrical research.
Doctor of divinity-Francis Brown
president of Union Theological SEM
mary.
The exercises concluded with the
benediction by the Rt. Rev. William
Lawrence, Protestant Episcopal bish-
op Of Massachusetts
During the Inauguration ceremony