Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University Mandolin Club and two Swedish singing clubs of Boston will give a joint concert in front of Matthews Hall at 8 o'clock this evening, or, in case of rain, on Thursday evening at the same hour and place. This concert has been arranged by recommendation of President Eliot...
...poems, Mr. Hagedorn's salutation of the Monthly to the Advocate is good after-dinner verse; Mr. Eliot's "Song" sings "Carpe Diem" agreeably; the bravado of Mr. Powel's "Thomas Doughty" hardly catches the Elizabethan note...
...growing influence of the modern university depends on the efficiency of the men it produces and puts into the work of the world, said President Eliot. The past 40 years have seen some notable changes in the educational system of the American schools. The changes extend to all grades and divisions of the school work, and they have resulted in the broadening and deepening of that work to a remarkable degree. First among these developments has been the steady tendency to increase the period of residence at the University. We are now planning a new business course at Harvard which...
President Eliot's speech was followed by a general discussion of plans for making a closer organization of Harvard graduates. The association elected the following officers: president, H. McK. Landon '92; vice-president, V. M. Porter '92; secretary-treasurer, L. H. Shepherd '00. The plan of the new business course is in the hands of Professor Taussig. Although the business school has for some time been under consideration by the corporation, it has not yet been taken up by the board of overseers, and has not yet been arranged in detail...
...plan proposed for the establishment of a Graduate Business School in the University, announced by President Eliot at the meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs Saturday, is in line with the modern conception of the relation of a college training to practical life. Although a college education is generally admitted to be a valuable asset in all walks of life, it does not generally fit a man to enter at once into business. The college graduate who enters upon a business career at the foot finds himself passed at the beginning by men whose common school education has been supplemented...