Some of the speeches made at the recent dinner of the New York Harvard Club were of great general interest. We give below a symposis of several of them:

President Charles C. Beaman presided, and opened the intellectual proceedings in a witty speech, the beginning of which was part Greek, part several more modern languages. This and the printing of the menu in Greek characters was, he explained, in pursuance of an outcome of the new heresy against ancient Greek-that all the speeches should be in that language. Mr. Beaman compared the attendance of New-Yorkers at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, showing that there are 71 in the first, 54 in the second, and 32 in the third, while in the Harvard freshman class today there are more New-Yorkers than in the other two corresponding classes put together. Harvard, he said, has 213 professors and 1,500 students, and will ever stand ready to supply the intellectual wants of all who may apply. Touching upon the new elective system, he declared that it seemed to him sometimes that it was being carried too far. "You notice," said he, "what the club is doing with its past presidents. Sargent was our president and we made him an overseer. Dr. Weld was our president. You made him an overseer. And, gentlemen, it is happening that men are going to college so they may join the club, and they join this club because they may become its president, and they seek to become president in order that they may become overseer." [Laughter.]

The speech of Col. Codman of the board of overseers was of the most importance. He spoke in part as follows:

There is not a professor in Harvard College who gets a larger salary than $5,000 a year. I want to say this in New York, where, if anywhere in the world, people understand how much and how little can be bought with $5,000 a year. There is but one professor in the service of the college who receives $5,000 a year, and the men who are at the head of our mathematical department, our classical department, modern language department and our scientific departments do not receive a salary of more than $4,000. These are facts that ought to be known, and they show a state of things that ought to be remedied. It is not right that gentleman engaged in one of the highest of human callings should be deprived of the ordinary social advantages which men of their culture and learning are justly entitled to.

I believe I speak for all the overseers in saying this. We are not going to abandon the study of Greek in Harvard. [Loud applause.] There will be some differences of opinion as to just what place it shall take in the curriculum, but so long as large numbers of students prefer the classical training, do not fear but that the college authorities will stand by them; and more, whatever-differences of opinion there may be as to the requirements for admission to college, we shall stand on this question all Greeks together. Though there may be a Cicoro and a Demosthenes they will both be united against Macedon. We all stand together against that senseless cry which speaks of the great ancient languages as dead in any offensive sense of that word. On this great question of classical languages depend upon it we shall take no step backward.

A humorous speech was made by Prof. Lane, followed by Brayton Ives, who responded for the University Club.

The next speaker was Prof. Shaler. His discourses was confined to what he called the new fight between the Greeks and the Trojans. He had been accused of being a Trojon himself, possibly on account of his connection with the scientific department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets of new studies has grown into existence, and Harvard was endeavoring to accommodate the old standards of culture to the new conditions. There was no disposition to undervalue Greek and Latin. The only desire was in keeping the old to get the best of the new.

To the toast. "Yale and Harvard: Always rivals, ever friends," the Hon. Chauncey M. Depew was called upon as the representative of Yale present, to respond. Humorously analyzing the difference between the two universities, he said that Yale does not yet pursue the elective system with the confidence in the ability of the undergraduate to discriminate and with the enthusiasm that Harvard does, but when charles Francis Adams, at a Harvard commencement, declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that the time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot-ball from Yale, and, becoming serious, said in a national sense there were only two colleges whose intellectual and physical contests arrest the attention and arouse the enthusiasm of the American people-Harvard and Yale. He hoped they would never come nearer together, but go on each endeavoring to show its own system to be the best, for that meant progress in education.