AWARD OF DISTINCTIONS

The annual meeting for the announcement of academic distinctions won by students in Harvard College during the year 1901-1902 was held in Sanders Theatre last night. Dean Hurlbut presided and after a choral by the Appleton Chapel Choir made a few remarks stating the purposes of the meeting. He closed by introducing Hon. John Davis Long '57 who made the principal address of the evening.

After speaking of the many changes through which Harvard has passed since his College days, Mr. Long said in part:

"And yet while there have been all these changes there has been no change in the character of the Harvard man. Methods of instruction may come and methods of instruction may go, but the college boy with the beauty of God on his face goes on forever. It is always a contest between brute courage and manliness on the one side, and on the other, meanness, flabbiness, and cowardice. The result of the contest is to determine which boy goes to Heaven and which to the bad--or to the devil."

As illustrious example of "Honor Men." Mr. Long then referred to the characters of Charles Russell Lowell '54 and Roger Wolcott '70. "Look up to and associate with the star to which you hitch your wagon. These men were worthy of their deturs; be worthy of yours. The qualities which counted with them was that their characters rang true; they had a down-right, straightforward sense, honesty, and integrity of character. These are the foundations on which the Republic and the Commonwealth must rest.

"Before you is a strenuous battle, fiercer than any cavalry charge -- the battle of economics, of society. Its issue will effect the foundations of government and involve all the relations of life. There will be the shadows, the repulses, the defeats, but if you do your duty there can be nothing better.

"Never forget your deturs. They mean more than a Victoria Cross. And above all never forget Harvard."

At the conclusion of Mr. Long's remarks the audience sang the Harvard Hymn after which the deturs were given out. The exercises closed with the singing of Fair Harvard.