Word: eliot
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President Eliot was one of the leading speakers at a public meeting held in Faneuil Hall, Boston, yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of advancing the cause of the public opinion bill which is now before the State Legislature. The bill aims to increase the use of the referendum and the introduction of the popular initiative...
Robert Treat Paine '88 presided, and introduced President Eliot, who said that he firmly believed in the bill which, in principle, will bring about more public interest in legislation, although the details of the bill might, in his estimation, be altered. He said that by its very essence, the opinion of hundreds of thousands of people is bound to be more accurate and more representative than any expression now given by legislators exposed to political influences...
...petition voicing the above sentiment was presented to the Senate, signed by President C.W. Eliot, President George Harris of Amherst College, President Henry Hopkins of Williams College, President F. W. Hamilton of Tufts College, and about fifteen other presidents. Many editorials have appeared in the Boston and New York papers concerning this subject, all of which support the stand taken by the institutions. In order to become a law the bill must pass the House of Representatives and be signed by the Governor of the State...
...measure as an entering wedge, which, if it becomes a law, is likely to be extended to affect all college property. In the face of the fact that Harvard has proportionately less to lose than perhaps any other Massachusetts college or university, we are glad that President Eliot has still been one of the strongest opposers of the bill, on the ground that the interests of all our colleges are inseparable. The undergraduate opinion on the question may not be entirely unbiased; but we do feel strongly that attempts to separate the interests of colleges from the interests...
...HARVARD DIVINITY CLUB. "Why Harvard Men should go into the Ministry." President Eliot. Divinity Hall...