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BUTLER NAMES HARVARD AS ONE OF FOUR LEADERS

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Harvard was named as one of the four progressive universities in the United States by President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia, speaking at a banquet of the New York Harvard Club Friday night. The other three were Columbia, Johns Hopkins and Chicago. These four universities," he said, "are contributing vastly to the progress of the country." He made no mention of Yale or Princeton.

President Lowell made the main address of the evening before over 400 graduates. He made no direct reference to the resignation of Professor Baker, as it had been expected he would. He declared that the new business school was not started by "big business", but was recommended as an academic movement by the faculty of arts and sciences.

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