The Washington herald., 1917-12-20
HARVARD CLUB
DINNER TAKES
TONIGHT
Record Attendance Expect
ed at Annual Feast to
Be Held Here.

Two hundred and ffty sons Of fair
Harvard tonight will attend the annual
dinner of the Harvard Club Of WASH
ington at Rauscher's. Harvard men.
known throughout the world, will be
present.
DR.. George N. Henning. president OF
the club. who will preside at the din
ner. and Herbert Hoover. National
Food Administrator; President A.
Lawrence Lowell. OF Harvard Univer-
sity. who will come here from CAM
bridge, Mass, to attend; Howard FL
lott, one Of the most widely known
railroad men In the country. and Col.
Constant Cordier, father Of military
training at Harvard, will deliver ad-
dresses.
Diplomats to Attend.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice. British Am
bassador here, and Romulo 8. Naon,
Ambassador from Argentina, who,
with Ambassador Jusserand, of
France, have honorary Harvard de-
grees will be present at the dinner.
Assistant Secretary OF the Navy,
Franklin d. Roosevelt, and many
other government officials who call
Harvard their alma mater will be
among the diners.
Thousands Of Harvard men are in
the government service and the war
has brought a daily increasing num-
| Der Of graduates and members of the
faculty to Washington to aid in
| carrying the enormous burden the
war has placed upon the govern
ment.
Walter r. Tuckerman, '03 Is chair
man OF the dinner committee. The
dinner tonight Is expected to eclipse
any annual dinner ever held by q
Harvard club in the number Of guests
and their prominence. Places will
be prepared for go members with the
guest list limited to a few who have
been granted honorary degrees. Mr..
Tuckerman formerly was president
OF the club.
An honorary degree was conferred
upon Mr.. Hoover after his return
from Europe for the work he accom-
plished in Belgium. where he had
charge of relief work.
Many Student. Enlist.
NhC VI iGSl-
dent Lowell, the work of the univer-
sIty has spread greatly and the num-
Der Of students lately dropped on
many thousands because OF their en-
try into the army and navy.
1t was Howard Elliott, Harvard 81.
who was chosen to reorganize the
disrupted New York, New Haven and
Hartford, Railroad. succeeding Presi-
dent Mellen. Later Mr.. Elliott was
chairman Of the advisory committee
OF the road. His appointment followed
q series OF Investigations coming to
climax when Congress held an in
vestlgation that extended many weeks
and brought sensations, one after an
other before the public. Mr.. Elliott
now is in Washington engaged in war
work with the Council Of National De-
Tense.
Col. Constant Cordier is here assign
ed to the General Staff Of the army.
He organized and instructed the first
Harvard military unit, that starting
as battalion grew into a regiment.
requiring the services of eight Amer
lean commissioned and noncommis-
stoned ARMY officers. six French Of
ficers, fifty professors and thirty other
instructors.
Expect Big Attendance.
Harvard, the first university to be-
gin military training among its stu
dents, established military instruc-
ton as a study, naming Col. Cordier
as the first to occupy the chair ana
making him a member OF the advisory
committee.
DR.. Hennins. president Of the club.
Is widely known. For four genera
tions his family has been in Wash
ington. He is the author Of several
books and is professor Of French at
George Washington University here.
He also presided at the last annual
dinner of the club.
February, following the election OF
officers OF the club in January OF
each year, has been the month when
the annual dinner has been held here
tofore. At the November meeting 1t
was decided to advance the date OF
the dinner in order to bring together
the many Harvard men who were
strangers IN the city.
Last year sixty guests attended the
dinner. Tonight men from every sec
ton of the country. some Of whom
already are here working, will at
tend.