Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dinner of the Washington Harvard Club will be given at Wormley's, Feb. 16. The Hon. George B. Loring, the new president, will preside, and it is hoped that President Eliot will be present and speak. There are about 140 Harvard men in the city, and a large proportion of them will attend the dinner...
President Eliot goes to Chicago this week and Mr. Bolles, will take a few days vacation...
...appeared in the Boston Globe of yesterday a number of letters from Presidents Eliot, Dwight, Barnard, Walker and others, in which these gentlemen expressed their views on the much discussed question whether athletic victories cause an increase in number of students at any college...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...
This question will be answered in the next Boston Sunday Globe by the presidents of the leading colleges in the United States. Among the prominent men who have contributed their ideas on this subject are: Charles W. Eliot, president of Harvard University; F. A. P. Barnard, president of Columbia College; E. G. Robinson, president of Brown University; W. DeWitt Hyde, president of Bowdoin College; G. W. Smith, president of Trinity College; Francis A. Walker, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and D. C. Gilman, president of Johns Hopkins University...