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Dates: during 1910-1919
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President Eliot was born in Boston on March 20, 1834. He acquired his early education at the Boston Latin School, from which he entered Harvard directly when 16 years of age, receiving his A.B. in 1853 and A.M. in 1857. Since then he has received the honorary degree of LL.D. from six colleges, and both the LL.D. and D.M. from Harvard in 1909. Almost half of President Eliot's life has been spent in the office of president of the University, for he was elected on May 19, 1869, and retired on the same date...
Although some may forget the service he has rendered, his personality is ever with us. President Eliot still holds to those ideals which guided him through so many years. At an age when the minds of most men have sunk into the rut of conservatism, he is becoming more radical, more forward-looking, more eager to use his abilities in betterment and reform. His activity in public and educational service has constantly increased in recent years. He is a believer in the value of technical as opposed to classical training in the public high schools, and in physical instruction...
...topic not too macabre to lie within the writer's power. Of the two offerings in vers libre, one, the anonymous "Hermes," falls clearly below the average in leaving one uncertain whether it is seriously or humorously modelled upon the accepted pattern of the imagists. Another poem, "Middle Age," by Percival Reniers, has a poignant virtue as a "lesson for fathers," who in turn should impart to the rising generation of writers some of the distinctions between will and shall...
...observations that were necessarily hasty and incomplete, are so amusing as to lose much of their sting. We are surprised to learn for example that "the touch of tradition holds sway, appearing at every turn." Tradition preserves the old and uncomfortable classroom benches and plank desks of a former age instead of replacing them with up-to-date equipment." And again: "The rickety old dormitories of a former century are kept unchanged, a tablet on the door of each room telling who has occupied the room for the past century or more, and if by chance the list includes...
...Squire '18. During its prologue and two acts the story is told of an agreement between two rulers of adjoining kingdoms, made upon the arrival of an heir in each of the royal families, and providing for the marriage of their children when they become of age. When the heirs grow up and manifest their own inclinations, amusing situations result...