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When President Eliot speaks to foreign students on "Harvard Traditions", we might well wish that he would admit the whole College to his audience. To most of us the Harvard tradition is an intangible something which cannot well be expressed. If, however, there is anyone to whom it has been a real and definable force, that person is Dr. Eliot, whose intimacy with this University, extending as it has over a period of three-quarters of a century, has become one of the principal factors in that tradition.
It is for this reason that his talk might well be given not only to students alone who come from foreign countries. There are those who look upon Harvard merely as a college; there are those who look upon it as an institution and there are those who look upon it as an unending tradition. As a matter of fact, it is a combination of all three; and President Eliot is preeminently the one who could explain this combination to us in its full significance.
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