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...death of Viscount Bryce will be keenly felt wherever high ideals, brilliant intellect, and the finest kind of public service are held in esteem. It will be felt especially in America, where his efforts as Ambassador from Great Britain have brought about the best relations between the two countries. The University has a special cause for grief; Viscount Bryce has always been a loyal sympathizer with higher education in general, as well as a warm friend of Harvard. Those who were privileged to hear him speak at the Union last fall, were impressed not only with the broad scholarship...
...Viscount Bryce, in appealing for closer relations between collegiate America and England, called attention to the fact that while America is well represented in the English universities, the number of Englishmen studying here is decidedly smaller. The explanation of this condition is simply the greater effort on the part of the English to attract Americans--the Rhodes bequest, for example...
...Viscount Bryce addressed 1500 Harvard students recently. It is regrettable that the talk of so distinguished and scholarly a gentleman should have been confined to the capacity of a university hall. He could have just as well addressed the million people who daily read the Boston Post if publication had been permitted. There was not a single sentence spoken by the great Englishman that would not have been read and appreciated...
...Viscount could have had an audience of millions, and it is a pity that he did not have such as audience. That is what the press is for. Boston Post...
Reprinted below is an editorial from the Boston Post deploring a "restricted Lord Bryce". Why did the Viscount address fifteen hundred Harvard students when he might, have spoken to--well a mere modest million of Post readers? We do not know and it is none of our business. If we were to hasard a guess it would be that he preformed to "confine his words to a limited number of hearers" and just why he would not do so we have yet to discover. "Was it not a mistake?", asks the Post, as if the Viscount or the University were...