Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot says in regard to President Cleveland's message that "The views on the tariff question and the reduction of the surplus are sound economically, sagacious politically and thoroughly patriotic...
...Harvard, as elsewhere, the best practical teachers have evolved from the tutorial system. If one looks backward through Harvard catalogues for a period of thirty-five or forty years, he will discover that the present academic staff is largely of tutorial origin. From Dr. Peabody and President Eliot, who began their official connection with the college-the first in 1832, the second in 1854-both as tutors of mathematics, down to the most recent appointments of instructors and assistant professors, this statement will in general hold tone. Harvard, founded to 'advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity' has always remained...
Until very lately the meetings have been held at the rooms of different members of the society in the yard, but recently with the consent of President Eliot, the society has voted to use as a club-room in future, the large back room in the second story of Dane Hall. The committee appointed to furnish the room has done its best with the limited sum allowed them. The middle of the room has been curtained off and a platform built at one end of the room. A piano and chairs have been put in, and some French flags...
...weather last evening, a large number of people gathered at the first of the Student Meetings held in the Globe Theatre. All the seats in the orchestra and dress circle, and nearly all of those in the family circle were quite filled with an orderly and interested audience. President Eliot and several people from Cambridge were seated in the audience. From seven o'clock till half past the chorus of about one hundred college men sang several hymns while the congregation were being seated. At 7.30 o'clock the regular services began. Prof. Peabody conducted the meeting instead...
...line of Opera Glasses just ready. Smith's "Moral Sentiments" is ready; also a third lot of Von Holst's "Constitutional Law." The Sterling editions of George Eliot and Thackery editions of George Eliot and Thackeray...