The Washington times., 1915-02-10
HARVARD MEN SING
PRAISES OF COLLEGE
John W. HoIcombe. President
of Washington Alumni Club,
Speaks Of Progress.

Harvard ideals were sung and praised
at the thirty-second annual banquet OF
the Washington Harvard Club at the
University Club last night. about 100
alumni being present.
John w. Holcombe. president Of the
club. presided, while the speakers in
cluded DR.. Edward Charming, professor
Of ancient and modern history at
Harvard: Albert r. Perkins. president
OF the Associated Harvard Clubs; JUS
tice Walter I. Mccoy. OF the District
Supreme Court: Carl Vrooman, Assist
ant Secretary Of Agriculture; Congress
men Gardner and Rogers, and DR..
Harvey w. Wiley.
since the college was founded. Prof
Holcombe said:
"The college began in le42 and gradu-
ated four students. In 1882 there were
y graduates: in l7S4. ~ graduates: in
1918. 81 graduates; In 1896. s. graduates.
and in 1853. 90 graduates. Today our
freshmen class alone numbers 706. and
in our college We have a total Of 2.47s.
I'VE are indebted to President Eliot
for most OF this great growth and to
that pervades the college now. 1t Is
within our own time that Harvard has
taken the place she holds today. We
are trying to do great deal for our
SSuOcntS, ITVlnH 10 make tnelf nNeS
safer and better. We ran $500 behind
last year. and we will run behind again
this year"
Reports On Scholarships.
Prof. Daniel w. Shea. chairman of
the scholarship committee Of the club.
stated in his report:
'1n 1910 we Gent Frank Howard Bell.
graduate of the Mckinley High
School. to Harvard. and now he is a
member OF the faculty. A graduate Of
Western High School. Thomas Duncan
Fuller. was sent to Harvard In 1911. He
now Is in his senior year. In 1912 we
sent Stanley Smith. e graduate Of
Eastern High School. Morris Cohen. a
graduate of Western High school. was
sent to Harvard In 1918. Joel r. Rogers.
graduate Of Central High School. was
sent to Harvard last ear.
THE fund for sending these boys to
college has been contributed for the last
three years by only thirty-two of the
200 members of the Washington Har-
ward Club. and we want every member
to contribute at least 81 so every MEM
ber will have part in this great work"
Included among the guests were Tru-
man Able. II. l.. Adams. Charles +.
Aiken. l.. Russell Alden. Sidney Ballou.
J: l.. Barr. Virgil Barker, II. Bluestone.
Clement Brumbaugh. William Chitty.
F. NJ. Chatard. c. II. Chapman. r. w.
Clarke, P; T. Collidge, T. N: Carver.
+. G.. Carey. Victor Cobb. s. P. Capen.
f. G. Cochren. Edward Claiming. John
Cummings. Frederick A. Delano. ]. r.
Desha. J. +. Day. Joseph Dunn. Picker
ing Dodge. stephen Desha. J. w. Dav-
| idge, r. q. Evans. J. II. Eaton, e. NJ.
Evarts. william Freeman. w. W. Fos-
ter. A. B. Fay. NJ. L. Ferson. Martin
T. Fisher. A. II. Flournoy. w. w.
| Farnum. Everett Fraser. Augustus p.
Gardner. A. p. G. Griffin, G. A. Geiger.
Chauncey Hackett. l.. l.. Hooper. John
w. Holcombe. Percival Hail. Daniel l..
| Hazard. Charles s. Hamlin, Thomas
Holcomb, George N. Henning. Joseph A.
| Hill. w. f. Harman. Hennen Jennings
! f. w. James. J. Kuhio Kalanianaole
A. ]. Gordon Kane, Archibald King
Story B. Ladd. William NJ. Levin, d.
W. Lord, Robert Lansing. Luther w
| Mott. F. p. Morgan. l.. G. Miller, ~
Pickman Mann, Walter I. Mccoy, r.
w. Montague. c. N. Osgood A. +
| Peters, A. V. Parsons, Edmund Platt
II. c. Perkins. Albert r. Perkins, John
j. Rogers, Franklin d. Roosevelt, Dan.
! lei w. shea. James Brown Scott, Roy
| Smith. w. l.. Stoddard. Thomas w
Slocum. NJ. X. Sullivan. ]. c. Thacher
Walter r. Tuckerman, Charles r. Tit.
man. Harvey w. Wiley. A. Gordon
Webster. Myron w. Whitney. Arthur
8. Walcott. James A. Wilder. II. j
Wilder. and Carl Vrooman.