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...College Man" in Emerson J yesterday afternoon. He first described the growth of the voluntary co-operation movement abroad. In England the workers have built up a business of over $650,000,000 a year; they own 40 or 50 factories; run 1,400 stores; control tea estates in Ceylon and thousands of acres in England, and conduct the most extensive industrial insurance company in the country...
...gratifying to know that the latest messages from Kandy, Ceylon, report President Eliot's condition as favorable and announce that a steady improvement is to be expected. The CRIMSON has already commented on the importance of his trip in the interest of world's peace: the trip itself now sinks into insignificance in comparison with the greater present work of recuperation in which other than Harvard men are taking an eager interest. We hope that President Eliot may soon be able not only to make speeches on the other side of the world, but to return to Cambridge to continue...
According to the latest reports reports received from Kandy, Ceylon, President Eliot is now out of danger and resting comfortably in the English hospital there. There operation for appendicitis which he underwent on Saturday morning has proved entirely successful and will cause little change in the plans for his trip around the world. It is probable, however, that the trip to China will be abandoned owing to the present unsettled conditions of that country, thus giving him an extra period of six weeks for convalescence...
...City will hold a reception in President Eliot's honor this afternoon, and at 10 o'clock tomorrow the President and his party will sail for Cherbourg on the "Kron Prinz Wilhelm." Dr. Eliot will proceed directly to Genoa where he will take a North German Lloyd steamer for Ceylon, arriving at Colombo early in December. The next six weeks will be spent in India; the party will leave Calcutta in January for Singapore. From Singapore Dr. Eliot will take a side trip to Java and then sail for Hong Kong where he will spend a week before going...
...Mott, and Mr. Carter will sail next Thursday for India to resume his duties there. The work in India, where he has spent eight years, is of a varied nature, having to do with universities, cities, and railroads not only in India proper, but in Ceylon and Burmah as well...