Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1883 — THE HON. EDWARD EVERETT. [ARTICLE]

THE HON. EDWARD EVERETT.

How the Pwia—tof Harvard CtoUege Was ■bswtarilsfi, [From the Boston Traveller.] While Edward Everett was President of Harvard a distinguished Englishman visited this country, bringing with him letters of introduction to our leading men, among them one to Edward Everett, President of Harvard College. On delivering the letter the Englishman expressed a strong desire to visit Harvard College, to which Mr. Averett cordially assented. It was in the winter season. The distinguished visitor was stopping at the Tremont, then the first hotel in the country. President Everett drove in from Watertown in a sleigh. The night previous there had been a severe snow-storm, and the town teams had turned out to break the highways, leaving, as usual then, great banks on either foadside. Mr. Everett was hot an accomplished whip, and somewhere in Cambndgeport the sleigh turned oven and dumped the two into a deep drift of snow. It occurred just opposite a school-house and during the hour of recess. The emancipated youths, seeing ' the two floundering helplessly, proceeded to pelt them mercilessly with snow-balls, accompanying the same. with epithets more expressive than refined. Everett was extremely mortified, thinking his r English gupst would have a low themannersof New England school;, boys. A few weeks after the annual examination of this school took ; place Mr. Everett, the President of the College, was called upon to address the 'graduating class. The members had passed a good examination and deported themselves. In closing-his address Mr. Everett said: “Younggentlenjpn, you have done well, but I am pained to say that there are other things learned in New England beside those which apply to thorough scholarship;” and then he related the incident of the snow-balling. The young gentlemen, most of whom afterward entered Harvard, many of whom are now living, never forgot the quiet rebuke. Another reminiscence is connected with the occasion of a complimentary dinner given to Mr. Everett when appointed Minister to the Court of St. James. The assembly was very select, including the great scholars, jurists, statesmen, and wits of the day. The late Chief Justice Story presided, and, when the after-dinner ceremonies began, Justice Story, in introducing the distinguished guest of the evening, gave the following toast: “Our distinguished guest—he is going abroad, he has great talent which will be felt wherever it goes.” In response Mr. Everett said: “Our friend at the head of the table has complimented me with a toast; I will endeavor to reciprocate in kind, and I give you, gentlemen: Law, equity and justice; erect for them as many stories as high as you please, they can never get higher than one Story.”