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...President Lowell:--The sense of academic solidarity is appropriate not only to the members of a single college or a single university, but to the common brotherhood of universities and colleges. I am on that account bold enough to speak in behalf of delegates from universities and colleges in Great Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, Bohemia, Switzerland, Holland, Norway, Cuba, Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand. Sir, I convey to you on behalf of all these a message of heart-felt congratulation and good wishes on the occasion of your inauguration in the words of the cable message which...
...Within the last twenty years our universities and colleges have been drawn closer together than ever before. The conduct of a great institution of learning is no longer a matter which concerns its governing boards alone or its graduates alone; it is something which affects a hundred other institutions with which it comes in contact. Particularly true is this of the eldest in our collegiate sisterhood--the university whose pre-eminence in years is equalled by her proeminence in honors and services...
President Lowell has outlined in his inaugural address three great policies to the accomplishment of which his administration is to be chiefly devoted: the adjustment of the elective system for the highest development of the individual student; the achievement of more harmonious relations between the College and the professional schools; and the restoration of class unity by a change in the social conditions of Freshman year. They are important questions, both to Harvard and to the cause of education throughout the country,--problems not to be solved in a day or a year, but worthy of a lifetime of earnest...
...local fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college; but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
...Garcelon was the first speaker, and he emphasized the importance of track athletics. In no other sport is there as great an opportunity for a man to show his persistence and determination. This spirit will gradually pervade all activities and will prove a powerful assistance in after-life...