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QUOTATIONS 



THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT AND THE UNIVERSITY 

 PROFESSOR 



In Professor A. Lawrence Lowell's first 

 formal address as president-elect of Harvard 

 University, printed in the Harvard Bulletin, 

 lie says: 



It is commonly thought that President Eliot 

 has ruled Harvard and the faculty with a heavy 

 hand. It is not so. When I went to Cambridge 

 one of my colleagues said to me : " If you fail to 

 give satisfaction you will go; but so long as you 

 give satisfaction you may teach as you please." 

 That has been President Eliot's method of treating 

 his subordinates, the members of the faculty. 



Is it to be understood that as president of 

 Harvard University Mr. Lowell proposes to 

 retain his subordinates only so long as they 

 give him satisfaction? 



The president of another great university 

 has recently expressed his opinion of the re- 

 lation between the university president and 

 the university professor. In his recently 

 printed lectures before the University of 

 Copenhagen, President Butler, of Columbia 

 University, writes: 



Almost without exception the men who to-day 

 occupy the most conspicuous positions in the 

 United States have worked their way up, by their 

 own ability, from very humble beginnings. The 

 heads of the great universities were every one of 

 them not long ago humble and poorly compensated 

 teachers. — An 'Umble Professor in The 'Nation. 



MAMMALS IN THE CONGRESS 



Mr. Macon — " Another question. I notice 

 that it is proposed to preserve mammals. 

 What kind of mammals are there up there? 

 I notice here some mammals that you want 

 to preserve there. What are mammals, and 

 of what use will they be to the government?" 



Mr. Gronna — " So far as I know, there are 

 no mammals on the islands. The species of 

 birds we have, I have mentioned. We have 

 also the white pelican " 



Mr. Macon — " Are these mammal birds ?" 



Mr. Gronna — " We have on those particular 

 islands birds that are found nowhere else in 

 the United States, I will say to the gentleman 

 from Arkansas. We have the white-winged 



scoter, that is not found anywhere else in the 

 interior of this country." 



Mr. Macon — "But I want to know about 

 the mammals." 



Mr. Gronna — "I am not discussing or re- 

 ferring to mammals." 



Mr. Macon — "But I want to know about 

 them." 



Mr. Gronna — " I am talking about birds." 



Mr. Macon — "I have understood they are 

 something like rats, gophers, or something of 

 that kind." 



Mr. Humphreys — " Or 'possum." 



Mr. Macon — " Oh, no " 



Mr. Gronna — "I wiU say in reply to the 

 gentleman from Arkansas that if there are 

 any mammals there of any value we wiU be 

 very much pleased to preserve them." 



Mr. Macon^ — " But what are they good for?" 



Mr. Gronna — " I say we have none that I 

 know of." 



Mr. Macon — " What are they good for, or 

 what would they be good for if they were 

 there ?" 



Mr. Gronna — " I will say to the gentleman 

 from Arkansas that my reply to the gentle- 

 man was this, that if there are any mammals 

 of any value we would desire to preserve 

 them." 



Mr. Macon — "I am trying to get at what 

 they are goodl for, but it seems that the 

 gentleman can not inform me." 



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