Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Whereas it has pleased Almighty God to remove from our number our friend and classmate William Samuel Eliot...
Those who knew well William Samuel Eliot will not soon forget the lesson of pure and elevated character, of scholarly devotion and perseverance, taught them by the unobtrusive example of his daily life; and certainly there is no member of the class of '74, who can recall without a glow of affectionate admiration the manly endurance and patience, never in one thoughtless moment laid aside, with which he bore the pain of a long and distressing illness. His tastes and habits were those of a scholar, but he had a singular loyalty for and unselfish interest in all that concerned...
...character of nearly every young man who, dying at an early age, gives promise of future excellence, there is an element of imperfection or of extravagance, - something to hide or to excuse. Mr. Eliot's character was wonderfully complete; his life was remarkable for its consistency and harmony. Remembering now what that life was, - that its course was straight, that it was not affected by caprice or by sin, - we feel how out of place any attempt to describe it here or to deepen its influence would be. We can only pay it the simple tribute of our affection...
...department or school has Mr. Eliot's influence been confined, nor are the higher standards in instruction alone the witnesses to the efficiency of his enthusiastic labors. A broad spirit of liberality breathes throughout the College government. Whatever signification we may attach to such marks of prosperity as the erection of Memorial, Matthews, Thayer, and Weld Halls, it is not to these that we point with most pride, but to the internal changes that five years have wrought in our University...
...each man has but one table of twelve students to serve, they do their work very satisfactorily; the food is cooked much better than at the Thayer, and is served infinitely better; and the members of the club have the privilege, to quote the words of President Eliot, of dining in "the grandest college-hall in the world." There was one other inducement held out to the men to change the Commons into the Harvard Dining-Hall Association, namely, the moral improvement that would result from constantly sitting under the ridge-pole of the "grandest college-hall in the world...