A Republican politician said yesterday: "You may as well tell the public that Gov. Butler will be invited to assist at Harvard's next commencement, and that he will go over to the university in style, escorted by the red-coated Lancers, with their nodding plumes and shining lances. President Eliot attended the inaugural ceremonies on Thursday in response to a personal invitation from Gen. Butler, and the president of Harvard can do no more than reciprocate the courtesy by inviting the governor over on commencement day. You know that the connection between the Commonwealth and the university has been dissolved, and the governor can now-a-days only go over on commencement as an act of courtesy. It is a mere matter of tradition now." Another politician said: "President Eliot respects the office which Gen. Butler holds, and it would have been unseemly in him not to have accepted the general's invitation to attend the inauguration." - [Boston Herald, Jan. 6.