Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequence of the competition in athletics. The subject of college athletics itself is one of the most important under discussion. The conference may result in the formation of an association of the presidents of the New England colleges. Ten colleges are represented by the following delegates: Harvard, President Eliot and Professor James: Yale, President Dwight and Professor Newton; Brown, President Andrews and Professor Clark; Williams, President Carter and Professor Hewitt; Amherst, Professor Gorman; Trinity, President Smith and Professor McCook; Dartmouth, President Bartlett and Professor Richards; Tufts, President Capen and Professor Fay; Boston University, President Warren and Professor Bowne; Wesleyan, President...
President Eliot addressed the Southern club last evening at the Society's rooms...
...pass over the contemptible way in which the writer of this pamphlet compares the political opinions of President Eliot to those of a well-known prize-fighter; but I wish to emphasize the meanness of trying to influence the vote of whatever voters there may be among the students here, by a dastardly attack upon a president of whom we all, whatever our political opinions, are justly proud...
...informed that "the president of a great university should occupy in politics the position of a judge": we affirm that President Eliot does hold the position of a judge, but we respectfully suggest that it is the duty of a judge to "instruct the jury...
...society offers two prizes of $3,000 each "for the best general essays on the progress of science and literature respectively; such essays to embrace a philosophical discussion of the development in the past and the outlook for the future." The judges are to be Presidents Dwight of Yale; Eliot of Harvard; Angel of the University of Michigan; Gilman of Johns Hopkins; Adams of Cornell; Northrop of the University of Minnesota; and Bishop Potter of New York...