A Restricted Lord Bryce

Viscount Bryce addressed 1500 Harvard students recently. It is regrettable that the talk of so distinguished and scholarly a gentleman should have been confined to the capacity of a university hall. He could have just as well addressed the million people who daily read the Boston Post if publication had been permitted. There was not a single sentence spoken by the great Englishman that would not have been read and appreciated.

Was it not a mistage to confine the words of so great a man to a limited number of hearers? There are hundreds of thousands of other students as directly and as personally concerned as the young men who gathered within the range of Lord Bryce's voice. One of the great of the many great commendatory justifications for the publication of newspapers is that they spread the thought and record the history of the present.

The Viscount could have had an audience of millions, and it is a pity that he did not have such as audience. That is what the press is for. Boston Post.