Visit of Trafalgar Day Speakers

President Eliot received the following distinguished men as guests of the University on Saturday: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the fleet, representing the Royal Navy and the British Government; Surgeon-General S. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Navy on the staff of Admiral Togo on board the flagship Mikasa in the battle of the Sea of Japan; Captain Ryan, R. N. naval attache to the British Embassy at Washington; Commander Isam Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy, naval attache to the Legation at Washington; and Captain Wyndham, British Consul at Boston. After visiting Memorial Hall, the Hamenway Gymnasium, the statue of John Harvard, and other places of historical interest in the Yard, the party, with President and Mrs. Eliot; attended a banquet at the Brookline Country Club given, in honor of Admiral Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, by the Algonquin Club.

In the evening in Tremont Temple, under the auspices of the Victorian Club, there were address by the following men in commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar; Professor F. C. de Sumichrast, President of the Victorian Club, who compared England's situation 100 years ago with that of today; Captain Alfred T. Mahan, U. S. N. L.L.D., who spoke about Nelson's distinct individuality; Sir E. H. Seymour, G. C. B.; Commander Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy; and Surgeon-General Baron S. Suzuki, who told about the battle of Japan Sea.