dren have, in peace and war, in life and death,
deserved well of the Republic. Smile, Heaven, upon this fair
conjunction.' [Applause.] We are fortunate to-night, gentlemen, in
having with us the representatives of both these institutions, and I
will ask President Eliot, of Harvard, first, to respond." The allusion
made by President Eliot to the words of the Secretary of State refers
to the following remarks which William M. Evarts made in the course of
his address: "New England, I observe, while it retains all its
sterling qualities, is nevertheless moving forward in the direction of
conciliation and peace. I remember when I was a boy, I travelled 240
miles by stage-coach from Boston to New Haven to avoid going to
Harvard University which was across the Bridge. [Great applause and
laughter.] It was because of the religious animosities which pervaded
the community, and I suppose animated my youthful breast; and now here
I come to a New England Society, and sit between the Presidents of
those renowned universities, who have apparently come here for the
purpose of enjoying themselves, and of exhibiting that proximity is no
longer dangerous to the peace of those universities. [Applause and
laughter.] No doubt there is a considerable warfare going on between
them as to the methods of instruction; but to us who have looked on,
we have seen no more obtrusive manifestation of it than that the
President on my left, of Yale, in dealing with the subjects that have
successively been placed before him, has pursued the methods of that
university, its comprehensive method, that takes in the whole
curriculum; while on my right, the eclectic principle is exercised by
my friend, President Eliot [applause and laughter], and he has
confined himself to the dainty morsels of the repast. I speak of this
to show that, although an amelioration of climate or an obliteration
of virtues is not to be expected in New England, or in New England
men, yet there may be an advancement of the sunshine of the heart, and
that an incorporation of our narrow territory in a great nation, and a
transfusion of our opinions, our ideas, our purposes into the veins
of a nation of forty millions of people, may enlarge and liberalize
even the views, the plans, and the action of New England."]

MR. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN:--I am obliged to my friend Dr.
Clarke [James Freeman Clarke, D.D.] for the compl