Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-07
ABBOTT |. LOWELL IS NOW
PRESIDENT OF HARVARD,
DR.. Charles ". E|iofs Successor Duly Installed As
Head Of Americas Oldest University in Presence
Of Many Distinguished Educators at Cambridge,

I Virginia: John Henry Wigmore, a dele
gate from Northwestern University; Ira
| Remsen president of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity; Henry Pratt Judson, president of
the University of Chicago; Jacob Gould
Schurman. president of Cornell Universi-
ty; Edmund James James, president of the
University of Illinois, Otto Gierke, a del
legate from the University of Berlin; Will
liam Peterson, principal of McGill Uni
lversity.
| Doctor of Science--William Bergman
Scott delegate from Princeton Univer-
sity: William Abbott Herdman, a dele
gate from the University of Liverpool:
George Alexander Gibson, a delegate from
the University of Edinburgh; Jacobus
Cornelius Kaptein. director of the OBJ
scrvatory of Groningen; Arthur Amos
Noyes. professor of chemistry at the
Massa chusetts Institute of Technology;
| Edward Bradford kitchener. delegate
| from Cornell University; William HAPPIER
Shaw a delegate from the University of
Cambridge: John Christopher Willis. a
delegate from the University of Cam
| bridge; John Harvard Bles. delegate
| from the University of Glasgow; Hector
| Frederick Estrup Jungerson, a delegate
| from the University of Copenhagen; Elihu
Thompson, prominent in electrical re-
| search.
| Doctor of divinty-Francis Brown.
president of the Union Theological Semi
mary.
In the afternoon the parade again
formed viii, much less formality and
with the absence of gowns. and the
way vas led outside the yard to the
sccEc of the many alumni meetings in
Memorial hall.
There President Eliot as the head of
the alumni host spoke the Worus of
congratulatiOn and with his usual
Graciousness introduced speakers from
many lands and many states, and il
addition read kilograms of apprecia
ton and felictation from President
Taft, the Harvard Association at the
John Harvard House at Stratfordon-
Avon. from the minister of education
of Prussia and from Adolphus Busch
of st. Louis, who announced that he
had increased his gift to the building
fund Of the Germanic Museum to $780,
600.
! The telegram OF President Taft was
! as follows:
! "San Francisco, oct. 6. To President
J A. Lawrence Lowell: | greatly regret
my inability to convey to you person
ally my congratulations to you as the
president of Harvard University. l
sincerely hope that you will enjoy Il
long and successful administration in
the leadership of the movement of ex-
tending and widening the popular in
: fuence of the American universities.
/ William II. Taft
| President Lowell in his response to
DR.. Eliot's speech and the numerous
kilograms. looked upon the Busch
! message as a birthday present and
, thanked President Eliot from the bot
! tom Of his heart. Governor Eben S.
| Draper for the commonwealth of Mas
aachusetts expressed the belief that
Harvard had chosen wisely, that the
university and the state were intimate.
/ ~ associated and declared his convic-
ton that under Lowell. Harvard would
continue to maintain it's present high
standard of education.
| President Arthur 4. Hadley Of Yale
| who was introduced as the head of the
university next of kim" said that to-
| day all educators are Harvard men
and that all other American universe
| ties were children of Harvard. He
! spoke of the day as the meeting point
of two administrations and also re
ferred to transition as the Harvard
policy which will be continuous and
which will command the support of
: America
| AS a representative of Emmanuel
| College of Cambridge. Eng, of which
| John Harvard was an alumnus, Will
| liam Napier Shaw brought the greet
} .ngs of that institution and spoke Of
| the bond Of sympathy between the two
| cole ges. both of which he said had
| Drawn inspiration from the stirring
perils in which John Harvard lived
| Otto Frederick Gierke spoke for the
| University of Berlin and referred par
! ticularly to the intimate and successful
relationship between the German and
! American institutions.
| President William Peterson of Nc
Gill University, Montreal, gave a brief
! review of the progress of Canadian
| education, while President Nicholas
Murray Batter of Columbia University
emphasized the benefit of a business
| education.
One Of the most emphatic and en-
thusiastic addresses of the afternoon
was that of President Edmund James
James OF the University of Illinois,
| who was introduced as one who stood
for practical results as attained by
educational institutions under state
control.
The congratulations and best wishes
of the Alumni Association as body
which were expressed by Governor
Wilson of Kentucky closed the Me-
mortal hall meeting. IN 't.i'
Symphony concert in Sanders the
atre and student jollification within