The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-03

DR.. Harvey W. Wiley. Chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry in an address at
the Washington Harvard Club banquet
last night at the Raleigh. humorously al
Iuded to the dismissal of Clifford Pinchot
as the first case on record Of Yale
President of the United states disPosing
OF a Yale official.
More than 2O0 Harvard graduates heard
Dr. Wiley, and half dozen other loyal
Cambridge ex-students sang the praises
Of the crimson in eloquent tributes TO
their alma mater. The nine "rahs' Of
Harvard were given time and again, and
the gridiron and diamond slogans of the
Cambridge university were sung with
enthusiasm
DIT. Wiley was the last speaker on the
programme and. therefore. according to
the rules of all properly conducted ban
quets, was the piece de resistance. He
gave a number of jokes in which the re-
lations of proper dietetics and intellectu-
ality were set forth in piquant antitheses.
Wiley and Cold Storage.
4 have been concerned lately with the
matter Of cold storage" said DR.. Wiley.
"and in that connection l wish 70 say
that Harvard, according to the current
report. seems 10 be one of our leading
cold storage Institutions"
He then took up the subject Of politics,
and drew attention 20 the fact that, al
though most persons supposed that when
Mr.. Taft came into Office he would COM
nence To weed out the Harvard men Of
the previous administration, the first man
to feel the gufIotne had been a man by
the name of pinchot who hailed from
Yale He admitted that some Of the Har-
ward men were not sitting altogether
easily in their seats under the new re-
gime. but that so far the palm for hasty
decap.tation had gone, without contest
% tie place Of learning at New Haven.
DR.. Wiley lost touched on the seri-
Gus when hesp, re of the policy advocated
by the new President of Harvard, Or.
Lowell, Of segregatiUg the classes and
bringing into closer touch TIE men OF
each year He declared that he was not
in sympathy with the idea. as he thought
Il would not bring about the result aimed
at
Receives Hearty Applause.
The president Of the alumni club, Preci-
val Hall. was the POSTMASTER. The first
man he mentioned as being among US
tonight" was Dean Briggs. who was
hailed with a hearty round of applause.
Dean Briggs read letter from Dr. Z. y.
Alderman, president Of the University of
Virginia. in which he said an engagement
in New York prevented his attending the
dinner.
Following came a tribute TO Mr. Alder
man. which was so we'll received that 1t
appeared that the two Institutions have
not yet broken off relations. Dean Briggs
then spoke of the high standard Of work
the president emeritus of Harvard Dr.
Eliot. had given TO his university before
he became diverted with the idea of the
"twelve-fOot bookshelf" This reference
10 DR.. Eliot, and the many others that
were made by other speakers. were the
occasion. for nine 'rahs" and songs.
Dean Briggs made a number of face
tious references to the exclusiveness Of
Boston and Cambridge, but got away
from the jokes later in his address 10
declare that in his opinion the charge of
undue complacency made against Har-
ward men was withOU: entire foundation
when the true facts I'm the case were CON
sidered He said he had found a whole
someness among Harvard men and fdel-
ity to their alma mater and to the prin-
ciples they were taught there that made
him proud 70 be connected with the instf-
tuition.
Thomas W. Slocum, OF New York, pres
ident of the National Association of Har-
ward Clubs, gave an account of the work
the clubs through the country are doing
70 advance the loyalty Of Harvard men
and perpetuate the spirit of the institu-
ton He told of dinners In one CITY and
another at which plans were made and
discussed which augured well for the at
tainment of the purpose Of the assocIa-
ton.
Enthusiasm for DIR. Eliot.
In all Of the events he spoked Of Mr.
Slocum described a feeling Of enthusiasm
for Or. Eliot that is probably unparaIlel
among the university alumni of the con.
try He told also of the effects b.
made, in a dignifed way to get the vor-.b
OF the nation to recognize the bene Is Of
a Harvard training and swell the yearly
enrolment
Mr.. SlOcUm on a number OF occasions
used Yale, 10 the obvious detriment of
that college. to point the moral Of his sal
lies Regarding the activities Of Harvard
clubs in other cities, Mr.. Slocum told of
the success OF the organization in New
York, where he said the woodwork of the
clubhouse was beginning to take on the
weathered appearance that gives a prop
erly conducted club its best away-from-
homelike atmosphere; that the philoso-
phic pock marks of burning cigarette
ends were coming in the tops of the ia
bles, and that on the mahogany rail that
needs no further description there were
appearing the dents of the rims of glasses
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