New-York tribune., 1918-06-21
Tells Harvard Alumni Ma
tions Should Join to
Uphold Liberty
Prof. Eliot Favors
Alliance i'm Arms
Few Graduates Present to
Receive Diplomas or
Attend Reunions

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. June 20.--A
plea for Anglo-American cooperation
after the war was voiced before the
Harvard alumni to-day by the Earl Of
Reading, ambassador to this country
to whom previously had been awarded
the honorary degree of Doctor Of Laws
at the university commencement exer-
cises.
sour design" said the ambassador,
SIS to combine with you as fully as you
let us for the benefit Of humanity, for
the preservation Of the liberty Of the
world, believing as wo do with you that
we are animated by the same faith in
our fellow men.
England entered the war; he
added, knowing she was vindicating, O.
great principle, but without clear
Vision. Your entry has helped to clar-
ify that vision, to establish the prin-
cipls Of liberty and justice among all
nations"
Eliot Favors Alliance
DR.. Charles W. Eliot, president emer
titus of Harvard, expressed the hope
that before the British Ambassador left
this country he would be able to az
range an offensive and defensive alh-
ance between Great Britain and the
United States, and that these two na-
tions would welcome to such an alli-
ance, he believed, all other democratic
peoples.
President A. Lawrence Lowell of the
university, referring to the university's
contributions TO the war, said that re-
Gently an erroneous list Of the names
upon the roll of honor prepared by the
memorial society had been published.
with the result that people found fault
with something that never happened
and was not even contemplated.
"Thc corporation" he said. "has
never taken any action which was
strued, to imply that the names Of
those who fell upon the German eide
ought to be included in q memorial
to the men who have given their lives
in this war. Yet it is now suggested
that the corporation would pass q
vote repudiating such an intention and
declaring that it will not do what 1t
certainly never would do.
None of Foe on Roll
"A little reflection will make this
point Gear A year and half ago,
while this nation was still neutral,
discussion took place on this subject
in the alumni bulletin. 1t was argued
by some of the alumni that such q
memorial should commemorate per-
sonal devotion and that the character
and motives of man who died for
his country might be noble. although
"A memorial of this kind would be
possible if our nation were neutral,
but after we entered the war a me-
inoriai to the Harvard dead could be
II memorial only to the cause for
which we are fighting, and therefore
only to the men who give their lives
IN defence Of that cause. I trust that
there will be no-more nisunderstand-
ing of the matter"
That over 1000 Harvard men are
serving with the forces of the Allies
OF those, 4,189 are in the army, 945
in the navy. 1876 in the armies of the
Allied countries, and 2,l46 in active
service with ambulance units and
other auxiliary branches.
One Hundred Dead in War
Of those in the military and naval
seryices, eighty have already given
their lives, while twenty in the am
bulance and auxiliary units have died
or nave been killed in the performance
Of their duty, making Harvard's war
death list one hundred.
Recipients of the honorary degrees
today we're: LII. D.. Edwin Francis
Gay, dean of the Graduate School of
Business Administration, and Rufus
Daniel Isaacs, Earl of Reading, Brit
ish Ambassador to the United States.
Litt, D., John Masefield, English poet
and dramatist and Barrett Wendell,
professor emeritus Of English at Har-
ward. A. M, Outram Bangs, curator Of
mammals in the Museum Of Compare
TIVE Zoology at Harvard, and Hennen
Jennings, consulting engineer.
commencement day was less de-
pressing in it's contrast with former