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...Christian Associations in Eastern colleges opened last evening in Phillips Brooks House. Forty-nine delegates from the New England colleges, Columbia and Pennsylvania have already registered. At the opening meeting last evening, Mr. F. W. Harris, of the international Y. M. C. A. committee, presided and introduced the speakers. J. M. Groton '09 welcomed the delegates in behalf of the Harvard Christian Association. Mr. E. C. Carter '00, secretary of the student departments of the Y. M. C. A. in North America, was the chief speaker and took as his topic: "For what principles do I stand as president...
Professor Abel Lefranc, the eminent authority on the literature of the French Renaissance, delivered the first of this year's Hyde lectures on "Moliere" yesterday afternoon in the New Lecture Hall. Professor C. H. Grandgent '83 introduced the speaker...
Arrangements have been made for all who desire to take the midnight express for Washington, where the party will be taken through the House of Representatives. Speaker Cannon will present the delegates to President Taft and Vice-President Sherman. Conferences have been arranged with several of the cabinet officers and one of the Justices of the Supreme Court
Professor Perry, the first speaker of the evening, after telling a number of amusing anecdotes, congratulated the scholars in behalf of the Faculty. The Faculty, it must be remembered, gave you these "A's" and "B's", and it realizes that it is not chance and accident, but honest work that has earned this praise. No one is so proud and so glad as the Faculty who know you best and whose only hope is that in after-life, winning or losing, you may find friends by your side...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in substance, that he had been greatly impressed during his recent travel in the South by the great gains education is making there, the most significant feature being the rapid growth and development and the improvement in quality of the secondary schools there. Harvard and all the great universities have especial interest in this gain of the schools. The prestige of Harvard must be maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value...