Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...General Monk. After graduating from Trinity College. Cambridge, he came to London under the patronage of the Duke of Buckingham, with the intention of earning a living as an actor. But though, it is said, he was a fine reader, his seemingly incurable stage fright made an actor's career out of the question...
...barest of the religious communions, and I am by nature reserved except with intimates and even with some of them. I feel glad that what has been, I believe, a fact in my inner life these thirty years past has been visible to a close observer in my official career. I should not like to have it said by the next generation, as has often been said by my contemporaries, that I was a man without ideals and without piety. That would not be good for Harvard. Your sympathetic discernment is therefore a solace and support. It has been hard...
...severe critic, but he was just. He was the outstanding exponent of freedom as contrasted with hampering restrictions in all educational endeavor. His wholehearted devotion to the service of education--a service which he deliberately chose early in life was conspicuously evident throughout his career; and for nearly fifty years he was the most influential educational leader in America...
...Harvard legends. It is the white-haired man with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career, but it was only in that rare fruition of life which it is given to so few men to enjoy that Eliot could round his philosophy as completely as he rounded his life...
...Years ago, President Eliot made an address, which was subsequently printed and widely circulated, called "More Money for the Public Schools." He served as President of the National Educational Association and has given much time and attention throughout his career to the professional preparation of teachers. He was Chairman of the Committee of Ten on Secondary Education, whose report, in the early nineties, had a great influence on the high schools of the country. These are but items out of a long list which could be made of the services which President Eliot has rendered to the public schools...