ENGLISHMEN AT HARVARD.

The English track team drove out to Cambridge yesterday morning at 11 o'clock, and was met in front of Massachusetts Hall by about three hundred men. After the cheering, the guests were taken about the yard, and then to the Museum to see the glass flowers. They then went through the gymnasium and to the Union, which they inspected thoroughly.

Luncheon was served in the new dining room in the Union, which was opened for the first time. There were present, besides the Englishmen, several members of the Harvard track team and a few invited guests.

After the luncheon a reception was held in the living room, at which addresses were made by President Eliot and Mr. Lees Knowles, M.P.

President Eliot welcomed the visitors to Harvard, and spoke of what American athletes should learn from the English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same from year to year, without attempting to vary them by new and tricky plays which have to be practiced in secret behind high fences.

Mr. Lees Knowles, M.P. spoke in behalf of the Oxford and Cambridge men, and expressed his gratification at seeing the bust of John Harvard, a graduate of Emanuel College, Cambridge. After referring to the strictly amateur stand taken by the Oxford and Cambridge athletes, who came to America without even a professional trainer, he expressed the hope that Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale might stand out as an example to all colleges in clean athletic sports. The words of Washington, inscribed beneath his bust in the Union, are appropriate in this: "Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair."

The guests were then taken about the different buildings by friends; and went down to Soldiers Field at about 4 o'clock. They sat on the side lines during the football practice, taking several photographs of the line-up; and seemed to be much interested in the game.

After inspecting the baseball cage, they went through the University boat house; and were finally taken down to the Union Boat Club in the 'John Harvard."

In the evening a dinner was given them by Harvard graduates at the Algonquin Club. The Harvard track team, Glee and Mandolin clubs were present. Colonel Peabody '69, of Milton, a graduate and college oar at Cambridge University, presided. Short after-dinner talks were made by President Eliot, Mr. Lees Knowles, Mr. Evert J. Wendell '82, and others.