In your letter of January 8th, you have this passage: "A to say about it is that a little slip is liable to happen good provision of beer and light wine will not pre- President Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Dear Sir: The Rule of "ttot Too Much. 3 ' to anybody, even to the president of a great university. tion. But now the statement is quoted again and is vent Teutonic people from drinking distilled liquor to statement. As I do not want to follow the fashion of was my intention to say nothing more about that mat- It therefore becomes necessary to state that the excess. On this point see the experience of Califor- ''Growler" did not let the matter rest with Dr. Eliot's Quandoque bonus dorniitat Homerus. triumphantly Dr. Eliot's statement that "a cheap and was not of sufficient consequence to call for refuta- nia." The article, however, was too utterly silly to will here give the correspondence in full. All I have And, now, as to the letter of President Eliot. It cheap and good provision of beer and light wine will not CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 7th, 1906. CHAS. W. ELIOT, Esq., A writer in a California paper a short time ago quoted ter since Dr. Eliot virtually abandoned his contention. merit a reply, and the medium in which it appeared, 47 the anti-alcoholists, of publishing garbled extracts, I likely to go the rounds of the prohibition press.