Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the International Copyright Association, of which President Eliot is president, twelve are graduates of Andover...
...Glee and Banjo Clubs of Yale will give a grand concert at Eliot Hall, Newton, on the evening of April 4, 1888. In anticipation of a large attendance of Harvard students, the following arrangement has been made: The gallery containing 100 seats, will be sold for $35, thus enabling all who wish to go to sit together, and charging but 35 cents of the regular price of 50 cents...
...recent hearing before the committee of the Massachusetts Legislature on education, in regard to the bill relating to the schooling of children and the supervision of public and private schools, President Eliot spoke very earnestly against that portion of the bill which imposes upon the public school authorities the duty of approving private schools. He alluded particularly to the effect this provision would have upon the relations of the Catholic and the Protestant portions of the community. The breach between the two divisions of the population should be closed as much as possible; but the inevitable tendency...
President Eliot spoke yesterday afternoon before the State legislative committee on the Private School and Child Labor questions...
...fifth volume of his "Narrative and Critical History of America," a volume of 649 pages, besides doing a vast amount of compiling in connection with his official duties as librarian of the University. Professor Child has written Part IV. of the "English and Scottish Popular Ballads." Professor Charles Eliot Norton has edited, for the Macmillans of London, the "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle" and "The Correspondence of Gaethe and Carlyle." In the realms of fiction little has been done; but the two works published have been conceeded by all reviewers as unqualifiedly successful. "Rankell's Remains," by Mr. Barrett Wendell...