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Tributes to President Eliot's 40 years of untiring service in the cause of Harvard and the advancement of education were necessarily many. Of his service to the nation: "Dr. Eliot is a leader and a prophet of the people in the true sense. His primacy in all educational reform, his interest in adjusting the equities of the laborer and the capitalist, and the useful candor with which he points out the shortcomings of each, his abiding enthusiasm for the promotion of municipal governments in which the welfare of the citizen is most intimately bound up, his yearning...
...mere enlarged version of the official bulletin board and a pleasantly written broadside for faculty opinions is to indict the mental energy and the moral courage of its editors. To make it a propaganda sheet for stand-pattists is to give up the heritage of youth: the mission of reform and reorganization...
...practical form. . . . The collection of any taxes which are not absolutely required ... is only a species of legalized larceny. . . . The time is arriving when we can have further tax reduction, when, unless we wish to hamper the people in their right to earn a living, we must have tax reform. . . . This country believes in prosperity. It is absurd to suppose that it is envious of those who are already prosperous. . . . The result of economic dissipation to a nation is always moral decay...
...Reform in the present rules of the Senate is demanded not only by American public opinion, but, I venture to say, in the individual consciences of the Senate itself...
This positive statement was made by Professor Holcombe in reply to a question concerning his approbation or disapproval of the reform measures proposed by Vice-President Dawes in his unprecedented inaugural address. The speech which inspired alternate indignation and amusement in the august chamber of Senators has been the most talked-of event in the inaugural day and occasioned violent opinions on both sides. In Professor Holcombe's opinion the "hell without Maria", of which the senators complained, is the best thing which that very self-important body has heard for some time...