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Show '"!- ! I ' t i J i ' V : ; ; pi.-- -. v.'-.- - .;- C:!!:;c-r:3iS;!i to C: D::nti, Ha Xrttfi Sue- cc::!:n to Eii'.t.' " - : 1 MHMH , i ; . Crr-IXCriEU?, llass., April The r.epvitlican ays that President. Room. elt -i$ Jimtitious ta succeed President ll3t cf Harvard uniyereity. , Io an dl t.orial article the Republican' aya: "What Harvard will 4o for a preiu dent wmm Ir. Eliot gets through has long been- a source of speculation. He wi'J'b 63 year eld the -20th, lut Jn vfffOF and force and youth Pr, Eliot la without a superior among university or college presidanta, good yat for many years. . There is an Interesting suggestion sugges-tion current among Harvard men. who know Tfceodore Roosevelt well. It i N that the President tt the United. States cherishes a strong ambition, when he y kM finlshea Wa ascend terra In the Y White House, which he expects the j 1 American people are to secure for him, the keen realization of what a tremen dqua advertisement for Harvard would be involved In r'aci-? at Its head an ex-President of the United States. "Nor would the younger graduates fail to see what a lift to athletics there must be in such a programme. There would be a 'rustler In command at Cambridge, The only living ex-President of the United States, Mr. Cleveland, Cleve-land, has been partially annexed to Princeton university; this suggestion of Roosevelt for Harvard , would dUpose of another er President along the cam line, only more so, "While In no department a profound scholar, Mr. Roosevelt would be backed by plenty of degrees, would bring such I fame aa he. has as a literary roan to re-enforce re-enforce the scholastic side, and the advantages ad-vantages of hU experiences in political life. He would be no closet college president should the day of his crowning crown-ing at Harvard ever cpme." 1 to become president-of Harvard uni-I uni-I verslty. 1 . . . - S "'TWa Is a suggestion calculated to arouse lively Interest In Harvard, and college circles generally, none the less because It Is dealing in distant futures. To be sure, the thought of putting Mr, y Roesevelt at the kead of the Cambridge Institution would directly contravene Dr. Eliot's stout contention that the prises of college presidencies ought to go to the teaching profession, but we all knew that the heads of such Institutions, Institu-tions, with Dr. Pat ton' s coup at Princeton, Prince-ton, an exception to be noted, seldom name their successors. "On the other aide, there weuld be |