Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...There are at present, in American colleges, forty-five general fraternities, thirteen local fraternities, and seven ladies' societies. Among the best-known societies, the Alpha Delta Phi has twenty-three chapters, and among its members are Rev. Phillips Brooks, Prof. James Russell Lowell, Rev. Edward Everett Hale, and President Eliot; the Psi Upsilon has seventeen chapters, and among its members are Professors William W. Goodwin, James M. Pierce, and Alexander E. Agassiz. Mr. Baird concludes that the fraternities "are a help to their members, and a valuable and efficient aid to good college government...
PRESIDENT ELIOT wrote the inscription for the Eliot Memorial to be erected, at Newton, to the Indian Apostle...
PRESIDENT ELIOT was a guest at the dinner given, on Wednesday, to Oliver Wendell Holmes by the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly...
...Harvard Divinity School, nor any divinity school in this country or in England, exists simply for the cultivation of theology as a science. All these institutions . . . exist for the much more practical purpose of training ministers, and most of them ministers for particular denominations. . . . We are sure President Eliot did not intend to be vague or ambiguous when he used the phrase 'theological teaching of a perfectly unsectarian character.' But we are also sure that he would find it difficult now to tell us what such teaching is. We may, therefore, safely set down the Harvard Divinity School as necessarily...
Then follows a quotation from President Eliot's remarks at the dinner, in which he says, after speaking of the success in raising the required endowment...