Salt Lake Times | 1891-02-11 | Page 2 | Shaler's Little Speech

Mialrr'l I.lttle Sport tv i Professor Khaler is ono of tho most I popular men in tlio faculty of Harvard, and the boys are always delighted when they can tfet him to make a speech. ' After the football victory at Springfield there was, of course, a big jollification at Cambridge, and ono of its most successful suc-cessful features was a cbaracteristio Fptech by Professor Shaler. In the peculiar pe-culiar drawl for whic h he is famous he began: "I wish to say gentlemen that many of you have received very low marks. I think this is due somewhat to the football enthusiasm which has been so-prevalent so-prevalent here. I can't say that I blame you gen tlctneu. I went to Springfield myself. I settled myself quietly on tho seats and hoped that the men neit to ma would not be too boisterous. Pretty soon I found I had gotteu up gentlemen; that my hat was iu the air gentlemen and strange to say gentlemen I didn't 3cem to care whether it camo down again or not. I intend to go to Springfield next year gentlemen." gen-tlemen." New York Tribune.-