The San Francisco call., 1909-10-07
HARVARD INSTALLS
ELIOT'S SUCCESSOR
Imposing Ceremonies Attend In
auguration of President ABB
bot Lawrence Lowell
Newly Created Head COnfers
Honorary Degree Upon Prof.
IL. Morse Stephens


Lawrence Lowell was inaugurated
president of Harvard university today
with ceremonies of a dignity in har-
mony with the tradition of Americas
oldest institution for higher education
In the presence OF great assem-
blage Doctor Lowell accepted the in
sigma of office, borne for 40 years by
Charles William Eliot, his immediate
predecessor, and was proclaimed Off
ciaily as Harva=a's twenty fourth
president.
CEREMONY OUT OF DOORS
The ceremony today was held out
of doors with the principal actors on
temporary stage built against the ivy
covered walls of the university hall
over it waved the crimson banners of
the university, with the great Veritas
seal reSplendent in colors on the broad
wall behind. In front white eagle
tipped staffs bore the seals of the eight
next oldest American colleges-William
and Mary, Yale, University of Pennsyl-
vania, Princeton, Washington and Lee,
Columbia, Brown and Dartmouth.
The following was the order of the
principal exercises of the day:
Choral, ''Laudate pOminum". Converse, the
alumni chorus: prayer, Rev. W. W Fenn' dean
Lester Burton Struthers, senior; induction OF
the president by John d. Long, president of the
choral, Domino Salvum fac Praesidem Nos,
! trum (GounodD, The alumni chorus; inaugural
hoval'' (Schubert). the alumni chorus; confer
! ring of honorary degrees, the president; Dene-
dictiOn Right Rev William Lawrence.
LENGTHY PROCESSION
The procession was of great length.
Thomas n. Perkins OF the board of
! n chi hal of
marched alone. Following in line by
twos came the president of the Alumni
| association and the president of the
university, the fellows of the corpora
ton, the governor and lieutenant gov
ernor of the state, the military staff
of the governor and the dignitaries,
civil national, military and naval
President Lowell in his inaugural ad-
dress dealt largely with the develop
ment of the college Of the old type.
He said
A discussion of the ideal college
conclusion that the best types of lib
eral education in our complex modern
world aims at producing men who know
| a little of everything and something
well.
That a student of ability can learn
one subject well is shown by the eX-
perience of the honor schools of Ok
ford and Cambridge, but for us this
alone would not be enough, because
our preparatory schools do not give
the same training as the English. For
American students the wise policy
would appear 10 be that of devoting a
considerable portion of their time to
some one subject, and taking in asso-
citation a number of general courses
| in wholly unrelated fields.
| CONFERS HONORARY DEGREES
| President Lowell conferred honorary
degrees upon 80, of the guests who were
present Among the recipients of the
! degrees were:
Doctor of letters.James Bryce, British am
delegate from College de France; Edouard Meir.
delegate from University of Berlin; Francis
af iJnirersitv 81 Good Hope 9enPT PTi'oM Marse
Stephens, delegate from University of Cali
fornia.
Doctor of iaws-Nicholss Murray Butler, pres
president University Of Chicago; Jacob @.
Schurman, president Cornell university: Otto
william Peterson, principal McGin university.
Doctor of science--William Bergman Scott,
delegate from Prnceton William Abbott Herd
George Alexander Gibson. delegate from Univer-
sity of Edinburgh; Jacobus Cornelius kaptein.
Napier Shaw and John Christopher Willis dele
gates from University of Cambridge: John Hsr-
yard Biles. delegate from University of Glas-
cow; Hector Frederick Estrup Jungerson, dele
gate from University Of cops1,hassn; p"S, aSs Elihu
Doctor of divinity--Francis Brown, president
of Union theological seminary
The exercises concluded with the
benediction by the Right Rev. William
Lawrence, Protestant Episcopal bishop
of Massa achusetts.
During the inauguration ceremonies
telegram was received announcing
| that Ado1phus Busch of St Louis had
increased his fund of 100000 for the
Germanic museum at Harvard to
S15o,o00.
Although the old and new leaders
dominated the inaugural celebration,
the parade of scholars, guests and
alumni through the college yard to
| the stage in the morning, and the
massing of the variegated hoods and
gowns on the stage in memorial hall
in the afternoon gave brilliancy to the
scene, which will last long in the an
nails of Harvard.
The parade was headed by Ambas-
sador Bryce of Great Britain, and sew
eral other English scholars in their
scarlet gowns, while behind them came
| the scarcely less subdued academic
garbs of the German, French Austrian,
| Danish and Cuban scholars. Ameri-
can universities and colleges were also
well represented.
| ~