Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-10
HARVARD CLUB
! GIVES ANNUAL DINNER
-
Dean Hurlbut Tells of Advan-
tages of University for Boys
of Slender Means.
National President Lamont Declares
Belligerent Nations Will Need
U. S. Help After War.

More than A hundred sons of Har-
ward gathered at Rauscher's last night
and participated in the thirty-third
annual dinner of the Washington Har-
ward Club.
George y. Henning presided and the
list of speakers included Thomas W.
Lamont of New York. president of the
Associated Harvard Clubs; B. &C. Hurl
but. dean of Harvard College. who at
tended the dinner az the representative
of the Harvard faculty: Dr. Charles A.
Munroe of the faculty of George wash
ington University and member of the
Harvard class of 1871. Representative
Richard p Freeman. 81. and Repre-
sentative Clement Brumbaugh. 'e4.
The keynote of the addresses deliv
cred at the dinner was the sympa-
thetic, liberal and democratic spirit
which prevails at Harvard, which, the
speakers declared, is not affected by
the false spirit of wealth, aristocracy
and snobbery. Dean Hurlbut. in speak
ing on THE Duties and Experiences of
the Dean" said false impression has
been spread that Harvard is a college
Tor the rich. By citing personal eX-
periences with the poor boy not at col
lege he gave the alumni means of cor
recting this impression.
Forecasts Business Conditions.
Mr.. Lamont spoke of the activities
Of the Associated Harvard Clubs and
the interest being manifested in its
annual meeting scheduled to be held
in Pittsburgh May 10 and 20. His pre-
dictions as to business conditions in
the United States following the Euro
pean war were listened to with great
interest because of his position as a
member of >the firm of J. r. Morgan &
Co.
When the great conflict ends we
shall see the nations reaching out
their hands to us for help said Mr..
Lamont. Their need will be great.
Russia-great. limitless Russia-al-
ready is reckoning to US, and whether
she resumes her vast trade with Ger
many after the war or not. Russia
Will need our aid. She will want our
manufactures. she will want our steel
rails. our harvesting machines, our
engineers and our Harvard men.
1T may be years before Russia re-
eumes trade with Germany, and in
those years Russia will look to the
United States for supplies of all kinds
In preparing for the big task ahead,
the United States must in a mea sure,
follow in the footsteps of Great Britain.
and see what Britain has done. We
might look to Argentina. for instance.
Harvard at the Helm.
There we will find British locomo-
tives running on British rails on a
roadbed built with British capital
That is the kind of work we must do,
and Harvard is producing just the kind
of men needed to do such work 1t is
mans work. The war has given the
United States a great task but with
our Harvard men behind US ! feel safe
In saying that the United States will
perform the task we'll"
In sreaking of his Impressions of
Harvard. Representative Brumbaugh
told how. in his boyhood days as
hired farmland. and later as a country
school teacher. he had dreamed that he
might some day attend Harvard, re-
ported as place hard Ter the poor
man. and where success would be diff
cult because social equality had been
regarded as an impossibi1ity.
ANY boy. however poor he may be
BORN, said Mr.. Brum blugh. ;'if he has
good health and limbs, a normal mind
AMI a good mother, may thank God
Eor such a boy. however poor in this
blessed land of equal opportunities has
10 handicap.
MIR. Lamont spoke in the interest of
he annual meeting of the Associated
Harvard Clubs, announcing the date as
lay 10 and 20, and the place as Pitts
Jurgh, Pa.
List of the Guests.
The guests included A c. True. Fred
erick A Fernald. W. w. Foster George
y King, Archibald King, James P
Leake. II. Bluestine, ]. II. EATON, John
r. Arnold. W. H. Windon, Martin T
Fisher. A. J. McGrail, Virgil Barker,
Samuel p Capen, W. w. Farnum, w
p Hartman. F.. Cochran, William g
Reed. George A. Geyer. Romeyn A.
Spare. Victor Cobb, Edward NJ. Eustis
Arthur vernon Parsons. q. Livingston
Bayard. Everett Fraser. l.. q. Miller.
John r. Desha. Stephen Desha Roland
3. Whitridge, Charles T. Tittnan Mid
dleton 6. Beaman. Walter r. Tucker
man. John W. Davidge, c. " Osgood
l. NJ. Ferguson. Pickering Dodge. Louis
l. Hooper. Angelo Hall. Percival Hall.
thurman Able. l.. Russell Alden. Will
liam NJ. Padden. William D. Wine, +.
Caffey, F. p. Morgan. W. W. Glover,
q. H. Stone, A. j. Gordon-Kane, d. w.
Lord. c. H. Chapman, Walter S. Nc
Farlan. V. B. Edwards. John Cum
W y. Collins, H. J. Wilder. Philip
Mowll. W. l.. Crounse. Story Il. Ladd,
B. Pickman Mann. Thomas Holcomb
George K. F'oss, Joseph A. Hill. Joseph
81 l<oHS, u L. INOm3S NJ
Chatard. Hennen Jennings. Chauncey
Hackett. Edgar Buckingham, Thomas
S. Lee, Sidney Ballou. Samuel Z. Wins
low. Hugh H. Brogan. Arthur Keith,
Eoson l.. Whitney. Daniel l.. Hazard,
Charles Farkin. Joseph Dunn. F. S. De-
Jano. c. T. Brainard. Richard Cobb, DR.
Charles NJ. Andres. J. w. HoIcombe
DR.. Harvey w Wiley. DIR. Henry NJ
Jacobs. Lieut.. Cen Nelson A. Miles Dr.
Charles f. Munroe, Dean HurIbut
George W. Henning, Thomas w. La
mont. r. p. Freeman, Clement Brum-
bauSh, Carl S. Nrooman, Charles War
rem. George NJ. Young, Edmund Platt
and Walter W. Magee.