Show FORTY YEARS 1 AnS A PRESIDENT T. T All AU the world is better bettor for tor President Charles Eliot's tort forty years years' ears service at atthe atthe atthe the head of ot Harvard university And that Is as much as os an any man has a a. aright right to ask of the fates It takes a big man to be fort forty years eais president of at an American college If It Ithe he have not all the wis wisdom om of the ages ho he will be laughed out of hi his chair by freshmen before ho has hns been able to get his portrait recognized And If f he have not tho the springs of or eternal youth within him he will be bo utterly exhausted b by the Juniors President Eliot tells of himself cIr astory a asto astory sto story which will very ver- well WElI Illustrate his possession of oC both qualities Lis Lb ten I I When I I was 20 years old and a 11 autor tutor In I and rind a special student In chemistry at Harvard Hanard I waa was wa a proctor in iii one of the halls haIls One night tight I heard a disturbance and hurried hur hur- nod ried down to see what was happening There were no lights In those days dRYS and as I moved mo about among the dis Us I heard them sa say Look out or old Eliot will catch us us' us Now not long JonS' ago when I wan vaa well weH past 70 70 I was going from Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge to Boston Boston- one night about 11 o'clock and I met a party part of ot students returning from Boston Doston to Cambridge They recognized me and asked among amons themselves es Where the devil is Charlie going at this time do you ou suppose There is none moro than thon the incidents It means earnestness at tho the beginning and wl wise e understanding of human nature na n na- na tune ture at tho the end They respected hlll hin when ho was a proctor The They rev rev- him when he is forty years cars a president And tho Charlie of ot the th latter Jatter era cra Is la Just as Instinct with the love and regard of young manhood for manhood that Is never old as language lan Inn guage can coin President Eliot has made education desirable and desirable and attainable That s a good deal He has made his own particular college famous over t Vie tie lC world It Is Ie much to bo be a Harvard Har man It is one of ot the riches of ot life to know that President Eliot has followed followed fol fol- fol lowed you ou ever since your our graduation for for ho he never forgot a student who remained through the course and ho he never nover failed to prove his recollection and his Interest He lays los down lOWn his Ills work worle while y yet Pt t hale and well reli Ma May he ho live long Jong J m In the land which his talents have hare made maio better |