Presidents Eliot of Harvard
and Porter of Yale, General Horace Porter, ex-Governor Morgan, and
Governor Horace Fairbanks of Vermont. Mr. Evarts answered the toast "The
Day We Celebrate." The presidents of Yale and Harvard, speaking in
behalf of their institutions, indulged in good-natured contrasts and
comparisons. In the old days, according to President Porter, when they
found a man in Boston a little too bad to live with, they sent him to
Rhode Island, and when they found him a little too good to live with,
they sent him to Connecticut, where, among other things, he founded Yale
College; while people of average respectability and goodness were
allowed to remain in Massachusetts Bay, where, looking into each others'
faces constantly, they contracted a habit of always praising each other
with special emphasis--a habit which they have not altogether outgrown.

[Illustration: IN THE BRIGHT SUNLIGHT THE AVENUE GLITTERS WITH THE
PAVILLIONS OF PATRIOTISM. OLD GLORY MAY BE COUNTED BY THE TENS OF
THOUSANDS; ENGLAND'S UNION JACK, AND THE TRICOLOR OF FRANCE BY THE
THOUSANDS. TO FORESTALL THE KAISER THE AVENUE IS "COMING ACROSS"]

The Union League gave a reception to General Grant on October 23, 1880,
in the theatre of the club-house. Among those present were Joseph H.
Choate, General Chester A. Arthur, Chauncey M. Depew, General Adam
Badeau, Colonel Fred Grant, Peter Cooper, Henry Ward Beecher, General
Horace Porter, and Rev. Dr. Newman. Another reception to General Grant
was given at the Hotel Brunswick May 5, 1883, by the Saturday Night
Club. Certain remarks by the former President and by Roscoe Conkling on
the subject of Mexico were considered of much significance at the
time. Both spoke strongly in favour of the formation of a
Mexican-American alliance. Mr. Conkling suggested General Grant as the
logical leader of a great movement to aid the sister republic in
developing its resources.

Nearly two thousand guests were present at the reception given by the
Union League Club to President Arthur on January 23, 1884. With the
Chief Executive, who arrived about nine o'clock, were Secretaries Teller
and Folger, of his Cabinet. After shaking hands with the reception
committee the President was escorted upstairs by William M. Evarts.
About the President were the Cabinet officers, Mr. and Mrs. Evarts,
Jesse Seligman, and Salem H. Wales, and Attorney General and Mrs.
Brewster. In the distinguished gathering were Mayor Edson, Dr. Ly