Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the intelligentsia of this country, and indeed of the world, President Eliot was most fortunate in receiving untold praise a few years before on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. And since his death the same intellectual class have again pronounced encomiums clothed in the finest literary dress and made by the most profound thinkers and skillful writers...
...CRIMSON of March 20, 1924, appeared the following paragraph: "The most distinguished gathering in the history of the University will assemble this afternoon to pay homage on his ninetieth birthday to Harvard's most distinguished son, Charles William Eliot '53, President of Harvard University, Emeritus...
...present Senior class is the youngest Harvard group to have seen President Eliot at his last official University function. It is, therefore, fitting that this Memorial Issue contain some account of the celebration on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Not only did that day impress itself upon the minds of the students as a day of homage to the Grand Old Man of America, the man to whom they owed thanks for their great University, but also as the day on which the most splendid ovation in history was accorded an educator. It was then shown that the nation...
...world before the public has made an estimate of their lives. President Eliot was almost unique in living a life of productivity appreciated the country over before his death, and even more so in receiving the spontaneous acclamation of the intelligent public on the occasion of a remarkable birthday party. It was his ninetieth anniversary that those still living who had worked with or under him and those who had benefitted indirectly by his achievements selected to evidence the approval of their master...
...occasion of President Eliot's eighty-eighth birthday, the present writer contributed to the CRIMSON a brief appreciation of his life and work, emphasizing his influence on the education of the country at large. During the last two years his influence, as well as President Eliot's leadership in the moulding of opinion on questions of public importance, has continued unabated. I venture to close this meager account of Mr. Eliot's life by quoting the paragraphs written for the CRIMSON two years...