Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professors Charles Eliot Norton, H. A. Hagen, and Francis G. Peabody, spoke on the temperance question last evening at the Prospect St. Church, Cambridgeport...
...Thursday afternoon at the Slater Memorial Museum at the Norwich Free Academy, Norwich, Conn., Professor Charles Eliot Norton delivered the opening address, and among the audience were many distinguished persons, including President Eliot, of Harvard, Professors Peck and Seymour, of Yale, E. W. Hooper, treasurer of Harvard University, President Gilman, of Johns Hopkins University, Professor W. R. Ware, of Columbia, and Professor Perrin and President Helen Shafer, of Welleseley...
...annual business meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York was held on Wednesday of last week. President Eliot, ex-President Noah Porter, of Yale; Prof. W. G. Turner, of Yale; ex-President McCosh, of Princeton; George W. Cable; Dr. Charles Waldstein, of Athens, were elected honorary members. The following subjects will be discussed at the club's monthly meetings: "The Advisibility of a Universal Language," "Practical Politics," "Robert Elsmere." Bronson Howard will lecture on "The Construction of a Play," and M. Coquelin will lecture in French on "Shakspere and Moliere." The club includes among its members many...
...probable that coals from the grate fell out upon the floor and burnt a hole through. The fire then crept along under the floor and burst out again in the center of the room. The flames were quickly extinguished by the firemen, acting under the directions of President Eliot. The furniture and books in room 11 were badly scorched and wet. The chief sufferer, however, was Mr. G. W. Sawin who occupies the room below. His carpet, furniture and library, including many valuable books, were ruined by the smoke and water. The loss is difficult to estimate but will...
...last meeting of the Nineteenth Century Club of New York the governing committee announced that the following new members, among others, had been elected: President Eliot of Harvard, ex-President McCosh of Princeton, Noah Porter, T. W. Higginson, and John Fiske...