Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subject of scholarships is treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges...
...such a cynic or recluse when I entered college; on the contrary, I was full of love and sympathy for my fellow-man. It is only the constant persecution of my brother-students that has brought me so low. Why, I even envy President Eliot's immunity from contact with the students, and think Adam must have had a jolly time until Mrs. Adam (his Eve-il genius) put in an appearance...
CHARLES W. ELIOT, Cambridge...
...like the writer in the Spectator, might have made Mr. Thwing feel very uncomfortably: but the attack is too general and too short-sighted to do that gentleman much damage; the author of the article has wasted a good opportunity. His proof-reader has not learned to spell President Eliot's name. The Spectator contains a very friendly notice of the Harvard Theatricals in New York...
...annual report before the Board of Overseers President Eliot discusses very thoroughly the advantages of scholarships to the College, the recipients, and the public, and takes his usual ground in favor of the present system. He next speaks of the healthfulness of the College during the past year...