Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have once acted greatly," says George Eliot, "seems a reason why we should always be noble." Harvard's successes last June at Springfield and Hartford make it incumbent on those in whose hands are placed our boating and ball interests for the coming year to see that the laurels so nobly won are as nobly retained. It is our good fortune that the captains of both crew and nine remain at their old posts during the coming season, for they are both men who will not rely on the prestige of former successes to win future victories...
...Association of the Alumni have elected the following officers for the ensuing year: President, Samuel Eliot; Vice-Presidents, George S. Hillard, Henry W. Bellows, Thomas Donaldson, Henry Lee, Manning F. Frost, Joseph H. Choate, Phillips Brooks, Francis J. Child, Henry J. Bigelow, William C. Endicott; Directors, Theodore Lyman, Henry S. Russell, Arthur Lincoln, Charles Eliot Norton, James Lawrence, William Brandt Storer, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.; Treasurer, S. Lothrop Thorndike; Secretary, Samuel A. Green...
...Baldwin, J. R. Baldwin, Barnes, Barton, Bates, Berryhill, Bird, Bond, Bowser, C. F. Brown, F. T. Brown, Bruce, Bull, H. S. Butler, S. Butler, Byrne, Cadbury, Carney, Cate, Chesley, Clary, Cobb, Conlan, Cotton, Cunningham, Currier, Cushing, Cutler, Cutter, Danforth, Davis-Denny, Dimmock, Doggett, Dow, Drake, Dunham, Dwyer, Eaton, Eells, Eliot, Farnsworth, Fay, Ferguson, Fuller, C. J. Gardner, G. P. Gardner, Gilman, Godding, Goodrich, Goodwin, Gray, Greenleaf, Hancox, Harriman, Harris, Harwood, Heminway, Herrick, Hitchcock, Houghton, Hovey, Humason, Hunt, Huse, Jane, Kenefick, Keys, Kimball, Lamson, Latham, Legate, Leland, LeMoyne, Lovering, Loring, Lowell, Lynde, Macauley, Martin, Merriam, Metivier, Millet, Minot, Morrell, Morris, Morse...
After referring to the recent electoral difficulties, General Devens introduced President Eliot, who responded in the following words...
...RUMOR has reached us that there is much indignation among the graduating class at the unwarrantable action of President Eliot in calling in the service of the police on Commencement night; that it was utterly unnecessary, and was a direct insult by degrading the class to the level of so many criminals. We should have been pleased to see more respect paid to the graduating class, and less open obsequiousness to the Presidential party at Commencement Dinner. For ourselves, we reserve our opinion as to the insult, but we acknowledge our blindness as to the necessity of such a summary...