Word: eliot
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...twelve members of this committee will be present on each Friday afternoon. In addition, a number of men from the undergraduate classes and the Graduate Schools have been asked to serve as ushers, and a number of them will be present each time. President and Mrs. Eliot will be present as often as possible...
...sixty-third annual meeting of the Massachusetts Teachers' Association will be held today and tomorrow in Huntington Hall, Boston. The general theme to be discussed by the convention is "The Improvement of the Status of the Teacher." This morning at 10 o'clock, President Eliot will address the convention on the subject: "The Financial Remuneration of the Teacher...
...entrance to the hall was led at 7 o'clock by Mr. W. C. Lane, president of the Harvard Memorial Society, and President Eliot, who presided during the evening. Besides the delegates from the Harvard Clubs, who were seated at the speakers' table, there were present a large number of unofficial representatives of Harvard Clubs, and the number of undergraduates raised the total number present to about 500. The seats and tables were arranged as usual in the hall, except that the speakers' table occupied a raised platform along the eastern wall between the doors...
...speaking commenced at 9 o'clock, when President Eliot rose to announce the first speaker. In his preliminary address President Eliot spoke in part as follows: "This dinner was planned and carried into execution by the Harvard Memorial Society, an organization which endeavors to commemorate in fitting fashion all the occasions worthy of notice in connection with this University. A Memorial Society! What a prodigious memorial John Harvard has in this University, which men have raised here on his foundation. The young scholar, seven years at Cambridge University, coming to America as a young, untried minister, dying within...
President Eliot introduced as the first speaker Mr. A. G. Fox '69, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, who said: "It is a pleasing distinction which I enjoy tonight of representing here the Association of Harvard Alumni. Down in the harbor of New York there is a statue of 'Liberty enlightening the world,' a famous statue in the history of this country. But it was down Harvard, who through this University enlightened Liberty herself. In the Revolutionary War Harvard College was characterized as a 'hotbed of sedition.' and ever since that time it has been a leader in the life...