Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1909-10-13
LOWELL SEATED AS
HEAD OF HARVARD
COLLEGE CAMPUS SCENE OF A
BRILLIANT GATHERING OF
EDUCATORS.
THE SUCCESSOR TO DR.. ELIOT
SPEAKS OF OLD TYPE OF
UNIVERSITY.


renee Lowell was yesterday inaugu-
rated president of Harvard university
TO succeed Charles William Eliot.
The ceremony was held out of doors.
On the stage were seated nearly 1000
people, including chorus OF 200.
From 100 institutions of learning
delegates and guests garbed in AGA
demic gowns and with degrees indI-
Gated by gorgeous hoods, marched in
the inaugural parade
The foreign delegates were easily
distinguished by the color of their
gowns, with James Bryce, the British
ambassador, prominent in the scarlet
and crimson of a doctor of Oxford
university.
President Lowell in his address
dealt largely with the development OF
The college of the old type and said:
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
President Lowell conferred honor
ar ydegrees upon thirty of the guests
present. Among the recipients of the
degree of doctor of letters were
James Bryce, British ambassador to
the United States, and Frederick
Jackson Turner of the University of
Wisconsin.
Among those to receive the doctor
of laws degree were DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler. president of Column
bia; Ira Remson, president of Johns
Hopkins; Henry Pratt Judson, presi-
dent of the University of Chicago;
Jacob Gould Schurman president OF
Cornell, and Edmund James James,
president of the University of I'LL
nois.
Elihu Thompson, president in cleo
trical research. was among those to
be made doctors of science.
During the Inauguration ceremon-
les a telegram was received announc'
ing that A6olphus Busch of st. Louis
had increased mis- fund of 100000 Tor
the Germanic museum at Harvard to
$150,000.
President Hadley o. Yale said thai
today all educators are Harvard men
and all other Am 4riean universities
were children of harvard.
One of the p.ost enthusiastic ad
dresses in the afternoon was that o.
President James, of the Universlts u
Illinois. who was introduced as one
who stood Tor practical results as at
tanned by educat onal institutions, un
der state control. He spoke OF the
rapidity of the growth OF the state
university. the marvellous increases IL
the number of students and predlcteu
that these institutions soon will RAM
With the older sisters in resources
and income. He said their grown II
| dine TO the economic conditions wes'
and south, whose people demanded
practical results and who saw the pen
eft of higher education in the daiiS
work and who realized the reasonaoie
ness Of scientific education to solve
the daily problems.
Harvard House in stratford.
Stratford-on-Avon, Oct. 7.-While
guests on Sir Thomas Lipton's yach'
some months ago, Marie corelll, tne
novelist. proposed to Edward Morn;
of Chicago, that the house built II
Stratford in the sixteenth century By
he father-in.law of John Harvard, IL
which Harvard lived, and which was
then likely to be sold and demolished
be rescued and preserved as shrine
for American tourists.
Mr.. Morris thereupon purchased tins
! place for Harvard university anc
named Miss Corelli md Sir Thoma:
and others, trustees. Miss Coreu
supervised the restoration OF th'
ouajnt building and organized the
dedication ceremonies which were
held yesterday.
American Ambassador Reid accept
ed the house in behalf of Harvard II
the presence of an assembly of Amer
leans and English. Miss Corelh en-
tertained more than hundred guests
at luncheon at her residence nearby
American flags and the Harvard Grim
son decorated both places. Miss Cor
ELI presented Mr.. Reid with the Ike.
to the house, and in an eloquen
speech said
when Stratford folk missed thei
chance thought it was time TO make
the property a gift to that wider work
which has intelligence and feeling Il
remember that from the lives of mel
like John Harvard have sprung al
the rich results of the present, ant
nothing connected with these grea
men should be allowed to perish"
Mr.. Reid said
Harvard today gains two new tiei
with England. One. this fine Eliza
bethan survival, with it's interesting
double historical relations to the be
ginning of liberal education In Amer
! lea, and to Shakespeare's Stratford
The other, president who has done
as much service in England as your
accomplished ambassador at Wash
| ington has done for America. Pc has
! shown that human rights we're not In
vented In America, that under differ
ent forms, both countries enjoy sub
stantially the same protection Of life
| liberty. property and the pursuit oil
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