The sun., 1919-07-29
HARVARD VETERANS
PLAN GREAT FUTURE
120 Financiers, Business and
Professional Men Study
Needs and Avoid Golf.
MUST RAISE $1,000, 1000
President Lowell Explains Ills
That Banished Old Sc
lective System.
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CAMBRIDoE. Mass, July 2s.--Golf and
swimming are taboo at the Old Grads
Summer School, which has assembled
here for a careful study of the needs Of
old Harvard.
The rule was announced to-day by
Elliott Wadsworth, the "dean." who
said that all proposed outings had been
called Off in order that the former stu
dents might give full attention to the
task at hand, which is preparing for a
drive for S11, 900 for the Harvard
endowment fund.
There was no inclination to cut for the
cooling surf on the part of members of
the class, which includes 100 fnanciers,
bankers. prominent lawyers and business
men.
with the historic old Copley por-
traits gazing down upon them they sat
in the faculty room of University Hall.
q sanctuary heretofore devoted TO moth
ing less academic than faculty meetings.
There were innumerable greetings be-
tween classmates of 'bygone years and
there was a big cheer for Thomas w.
Lamont Of ]. p. Morgan & Co. who
opened the meeting by telling how
pleased he was to find himself back
in the peaceful environment. of Cam
bridge after fighting like mad In the
Peace Conference for five months"
Applause for President Lowell.
Another lusty outburst of applause
greeted President Lowell, who urged
the need Of increasing Har-
wards financial resources. Mr.. Lowell
dealt with many questions confronting
the university and hit the elective sys-
tenn hard. Explaining why 1t was aban-
doned, he said
1T was found that the premise on
which the system was founded was
wrong. 1t was wrong because instead
Of the student choosing the subjects he
was most interested in and working at
them, he generally was not interested in
and sought something easy and
lightly diverting. Preparing for life is
like training for an athletic team. You
must work your muscles until they are
tired for one, and your brain until 1t is
tired for the other
"Our object" he continued, "is not to
make college a pleasant place for rich
men to stay at. 1t is to serve the public
and the Individual by Strengthening his
moral character and brain. and fitting
him for his place in life. If this cannot
be done we'd rather he'd go to some
other place"
Quoting Gov Coolidge. Mr.. Eliot said
IF you're afraid of Bolshevik tendencies
don't underpay your employees" He
spoke emphatically of the need of a
large, highly paid force and Of the de-
velpoment Of the personal touch.
This matter of the salaries of pro-
fessors was also gone into at length
,y William Thomas, attorney. of San
Francisco. who says that because he Is
he Oldest graduate working for the
endowment fund, the others look on him
rs a Roman consul, or seem to have
he impression that he formerly drove
, chariot under the walls OF Troy.
Had Celebrities for Tutors.
Mr.. Thomas, who entered the univer-
ity fifty years ago, had as his teachers
Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Dean
Iowells, LOUIS Agassiz. oliver Wendell
Iolmes, James Russell Lowell, Emory
Nashburn, Benjamin Pierce, James B.
and other celebrities.
James Russell Lowell, he said, re-
eived $4,000 a year.
He was very much higher paid than
he average.
"It surprises me-" said Mr.. Thomas,
to find that an instructor is paid hardly ,
more now than he was then. His sal |
ry seems forever to be bound within
he limits of six and ten hundred dol
ars.
"It is the student who has gained in !
he span OF years. There are wider op-
,ortunitles at Harvard to-day than |
here were In the past for studying, for |
to1 ayd t,,x 90 Ala 4
or self-support on the students own |
work."
Mr.. Thomas saw quite different |
coking yard at Cambridge from the one |
hat he left after the commencement in |
s73. At that time Sever, Thayer, Rob-
nson. Emerson. Wells. Matthews, Phil
ps Brooks. Hole and the Widener |
library had not been built.
From Mr.. Thomass account the period |
aust have been In what are generally |
egarded as the good old days" for ho |
as stories of commencement punches /
nd recollections of dancing on the
reen that occurred on many festive oc-
asions, custom that long ago van
she'd.
Future Problems Outlined.
Some important phases of the prob
sms were presented to the gathering by
he acting dean, Chester n. Greenough.
'ho is filling the position left vacant by
Ienry A. Yeomans, now with the Har-
ard unit in France.
He spoke particularly upon the new
lea OF promoting a spirit of mutual help
nd interest between the office and the
Iudent. He said that at present the
Ollege has about 900 scholarships avail
BILE, but that of this number which