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...Mott was appointed a member of the American Commission to Russia headed by Elihu Root, and because of his recent return from this field he will have much to tell concerning the present situation in Russia. He was offered the ambassadorship to China by President Wilson, but he refused the post because of his important work in connection with soldiers. The University will be the only college in the country at which Dr. Mott will speak in the nation wide campaign which he is making for the Red Triangle War Work...
...himself arouse? Now the man honored by President Wilson's telegram is in our midst, and yet few men seem aware of it. Or is it Harvard provincialism cropping out again, when one of the foremost citizens of the world, a statesman to whom our President offered the ambassadorship to the new Chinese Republic, draws only a fragment of the student body to his lectures...
...service of higher eduction must be honorable when it can tempt a man to exchange an American ambassadorship for a university trusteeship. Mr. Robert Bacon has resigned the embassy at Paris to become a fellow of Harvard University. At Harvard the president and five fellows, with the treasurer, make up the corporation, the chief governing body of the University. The fellows must live within easy reach of Cambrdige Universities know they can count on the loyalty and service of their strongest sons. It is rare for that loyalty to be shown in such a dramatic way as in this instance...
...appointed Assistant Secretary of State by his classmate, President Roosevelt; in 1909 from January 27 to March 6 he was Secretary of State. In December, 1909, he was appointed Ambassador to France; this ambassadorship he resigns in order to take service as Fellow...
President Eliot denied yesterday that the newspapers have been given authority to publish any report concerning his reply to President Taft's offer of the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. President Eliot said he understood that President Taft had made no statement concerning the matter, and that there was nothing that he cared to say himself on the subject...