Show Harvard and Its Principal A Pennsylvania paperthe Scranton Tribune makes some eulogistic references refer-ences to Harvard College and Prof ELIOT Ito learned principal We are afraid the full article would send our morning contemporary con-temporary into fits so we will not reproduce re-produce it but merely refer to a small portion of its contents Harvard and ELIOT are poison to the stomach of our neighbor all because the Professor came here did not worship the Tribune and went away feeling pleased with his visit after saying some kind things of the people peo-ple here The Pennsylvana namesake of our anti Harvard neighbor speaks of the college as the oldest and in some respects the most illustrious institution of learning in the United States and says it yearly increases its reputation and use fullness It also remarks It is now in the best sense of the word a great university with the financial and literary resources to maintain the high rank it has always enjoyed among American Ameri-can institutions of learning In the number num-ber of students the increase in the past five years has been nearly eleven hundred and the number of instructors has been increased in the same time by ninetysix In spite of all the venom of our morning contemporary poured out at every opportunity tunity on Harvards principal it appears that the generous supporters of higher education are not influenced that way at all The sum of five hundred thousand dollars has been donated since the opening open-ing of the new year and half a million was given last year This shows that the storm raised around Professor ELIOTS ears for saying what he thought on an important subject brought no harm to him or the university over which he so ably presides We presume our neighbor will look upon these generous givers as educated idiots supporting a learned ass because be-cause these were the kind of compliments it bestowed on the gentleman and his friends on their visit to Salt Lake City Rational people however will rejoice at the success of the renowned American college and its no less celebrated American Ameri-can professor |