Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foolishness of these resolutions there are two things in connection with them which please us immensely. First, that as they stand now, they can never get the sanction of the faculty, without which they remain inoperative, and secondly, that the overseers who voted against the resolution-headed by President Eliot and Phillips Brooks-are the liberal, progressive men of the university, under whose direction the real reforms in college work have been carried through...
...this reason that the improvements above mentioned have not already been made. The long-felt need of a lighted reading room would have been satisfied before this, had the money been forthcoming. If this improvement be now made, therefore, it must be made as President Eliot has suggested, by some sort of subscription. It is sincerely to be hoped that the recent efforts of the CRIMSON to agitate this subject will speedily be productive of good results...
Arrangements have been made for a Harvard dinner in Detroit early in February. About twenty names have been signed to the call, and a letter has been received from President Eliot promising that the representative of the faculty who goes to the Chicago dinner will stop over in Detroit. Any person who has been connected with any of the departments of Harvard University will be welcomed to the dinner...
...noon at the close of his course of lectures in Chemistry A, Professor Cooke asked from the freshman class the privilege of indulging in a few personal reminiscences. It was the end of his fortieth annual course of lectures in Chemistry. In 1849, to the class of which President Eliot was a member, was given the first instruction in chemistry in any American college. At that time Professor Cooke was the sole lecturer and teacher in the department of chemistry, and the accommodations for carrying on the work were exceedingly limited. The lectures were given in the room...
President Eliot has said that the work of a Harvard student ought to begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture...