Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This afternoon at 5 o'clock immediately after the baseball game with Yale the portrait of President Eliot '53, painted by the well-known English artist, J. S. Sargent, will be unveiled in the Living Room of the Union. G. G. Ball '08, vice-president of the Union, will preside, and J. A. Burgess, president of the class of 1904, will make the presentation speech...
...portrait was a gift to President Eliot on his seventieth birthday and resulted from a subscription fund of over $5000 raised by Burgess and others in 1904. The first sketching was made two years ago, during President Eliot's visit to England. As a companion to that of Major H. L. Higginson, painted also by Sargent, the portrait will hand in the same position which has been previously occupied by that of John Quincy Adams...
...Royal Highness the Duke of Abruzzi will visit the University today accompanied by Mr. Larz Anderson '88. The party will arrive in the forenoon and will call on President Eliot, after which they will be entertained privately at luncheon. His Highness will be shown over the University in the afternoon...
...records of the Governing Boards, the current number exhibits its usefulness as a convenient repository of current reports, speeches and records, which would otherwise be lost or difficult of access. Thus we find in full the report of the special Joint Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, President Eliot's last speech before the Taxation Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, and an account of the late Mrs. Anna Kneeland Shaw, widow of Col. Robert Gould Shaw
...arrangement has been made with the distinguished French medallist, Leon Deschamps, to make a medal, on one side of which will be a portrait of President Eliot, and on the other side, in relief, the Johnson Gate with Harvard Hall in the background. This arrangement has been made through the initiative of Mr. F. A. Delano '85 and through the kindness of Mr. H. Walters '74. Two thousand of these medals are to be struck in bronze, and if there is demand for more, fresh dies can be prepared and more medals struck off. These medals will not only combine...