At one time, he continued, Judge Helmick had been a fully fledged reporter on the "Denver Times", and if journalism in that city was any-As|thing like the journalism of Tennessee described by Mark Twain, Judge Helmick must have lived a colourful life.
He welcomed the guest not only as the representative of one of the only two national courts, as distinct from consular courts, at present in China—the other court being the British—but also as representative of the universities of the United States, he having been at universities in California and Colorado.
The president emphasized the link between the universities of the old world and the new. Harvard University was founded by John Harvard, graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1639, in commemoration of seventy members of the colony who had been educated in England. Harvard College, as it was then, was run on the lines of Emmanuel Before closing he mentioned Cecil Rhodes, whose dream it was to perpetuate the influence and traditions of the old universities.
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