Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hotel in Boston to observe in a fitting manner the fiftieth anniversary of Professor Lovering's connection with Harvard as professor of physics. The affair consisted of a reception and banquet and was highly successful. About two hundred guests were present, amongst them being naturally many Harvard professors. President Eliot presided, and speeches were made by the following gentlemen: Professor Joseph Lovering, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr. George E. Ellis, Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks, Dr. A. P. Peabody, General Charles Devens, Col. T. W. Higginson, Professor W. W. Goodwin, Augustus Lowell, Professor W. G. Farlow, C. F. Choate, Dr. Clarence...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard and other members of the Archaeological Society were given a reception at the Bishops' Home on Lafayette Place, New York, recently. The gathering was principally for the purpose of discussing methods for supporting the school at Athens, and excating the ancient relics of Delphi, Greece. Professors Norton, Goodwin and Sloan spoke. They said about $150,000 was needed. A committee consisting of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Samuel Sloan, Jesse Seligman and Henry G. Marquand were appointed to receive subscriptions...
President Eliot and Rev. Dr. A. P. Peabody were among the after-dinner speakers Wednesday at the annual banquet of the Unitarian Club at the Hotel Vendome, Boston...
...endless course of lectures on various subjects, instructive and entertaining, delivered by men of reputation. Our College Conference meetings, although informal and unpretentious, are, perhaps, after all, the most valuable of all lectures. The subjects discussed are to us students, living questions, and the opinions of men like President Eliot, Professor Norton and the Rev. J. G. Brooks, are likely to impress deeply young men whose minds are still open to conviction. Our dogmas are as yet unformed, and here is an opportunity to mould them well. Tonight, Mr. Geo. W. Cable speaks on a subject which concerns every...
...leading article, "A Need of Newspapers," by Mr. Eliot Lord, is an argument in favor of the foundation at Harvard of a department of journalism, with "an editor of high reputation as a professor and a competent city editor as an assistant professor." The writer believes that the "primary schools of journalism" should be moved from the rooms of the daily papers to quarters in the universities." We believe that the time is coming when the rapidly growing demand for training is journalism will have to be met. Suggestions such as those made by Mr. Lord will greatly help...