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CINCINNATI, O., May 29, 1909.--The thirteenth annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs, which was held at Cincinnati today and yesterday, was of unusual importance to the University because it gave about four hundred graduates their first mental and physical view of President Lowell. A great deal depended on the graduates' first impression of him, as one the idea which he himself formed of those strong men of the Middle West Whence comes so much of Harvard's support and influence...
...Eliot was next called upon, and as he rose the graduates cheered and clapped. A mighty welcome to a great man which lasted several minutes. During his seeech Mr. Eliot said, "Harvard is today not only a national college, but it is intensely democratic to the core, and not only Harvard, but the American college, has justified itself to the American people...
...there was a barbecue at the Country Club this afternoon. But the striking feature of the whole meeting was the perfectly unanimous sense of approval, by all present, of President Lowell in every particular. This fact cannot but have impressed itself on his mind and will doubtless be a great inspiration to him just at this time when there are pressing upon him the responsibilities of the great office to which he has been elected
...which are suggestive, nay, startling. It is known that the Pennsylvania Railroad prefers college bred men as apprentices in the Altoona shops, but Mr. Fagan tells us that the time is fast coming when the technically trained man who starts at the bottom in such an organization as a great railroad system, need not expect promotion any faster than his less fortunate fellows. What effect will this have on the future of education? Mr. Fagan has a singularly trenchant style. He writes as one that "knews, and knows, that he knows...
...College Courses" affords racy reading. We can imagine the reader sitting with the elective pamphlet in one hand saying, "Who is it that gives Abyzsinian 29 which is conducted in an insipid way, although the lecturer has great ability?" We wish that we could hope that instructors might profit by the exceeding multitude of conflicting counsels: "When he cried, 'Steer to starbord, but keep her head to larbord,' What on earth was the helmsman...