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Show GOVERNMENT BY PEOPLE STILL AN EXPERIMENT MONTREAL Quebec, Feb. 23. President Presi-dent Eliot of Harvard University addressed ad-dressed the Canadian club of Montreal at the club's luncheon. Later an informal reception was tendered him by the undergraduates un-dergraduates of McGlll university. President Eliot spoke on the variety of experiments in free government. He said that aa head of Harvard he claimed to be somewhat of an expert, and added: "Toleration in religion must be studied at Harvard and the utmost freedom given In the government of the university. "Free government is the greatest of all experiments," continued the president, presi-dent, who explained the experiment of the constitutional or limited monarchy of England and the experiment of the cabinet government, also an English experiment. ex-periment. Then there was the experiment of the United States, he said, that of giving power to one man for a certain length of time. This is still In the experimental stage, not having yet proved satisfactory, but day by day becoming evolutlonlxed to fill the needs of the country. |