Word: eliot
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...late Professor J. M. Peirce '53 will be held in Appleton Chapel at 3 o'clock this afternoon, and the interment will take place at the Cambridge Cemetery. Professor F. G. Peabody '69 will conduct the services, and the following will act as pallbearer: President C. W. Eliot '53, Professor W. W. Goodwin, Mr. E. King, Professor W. E. Byerly '71, Professor H. M. Clifford d.'86. Dr. J. T. G. Nichols '59, Mr. R. S. Rentoul, and Professor J. K. Paine...
Professor Hugo Munsterberg will lecture at Yale University this afternoon on "Science and Idealism." This is the last of the series of Harvard lectures at Yale for this year. President Eliot gave the first of these lectures on "Resemblances and Differences among American Universities," on November 13. Professor G. H. Palmer '64 also delivered a series of seven lectures on "Some Aspects of Ethics...
Professor Peirce was the son of Benjamin Peirce '21, who was also Perkins Professor, and a famous mathematician. He was born in Cambridge, May 1, 1834, twelve days after the birth of President Eliot, and graduated from Harvard College in 1853, in the same class with the President, taking his degree of Master of Arts in 1856. At this time he intended to become a Unitarian clergyman and six years after taking his degree of A. B., graduated from the Divinity School, which at that time gave no degree. Professor Peirce did not follow this plan, however, but spent...
Various Harvard Clubs in the vicinity of Boston have started a movement to form a federation of Harvard Clubs in New England similar to the Associated Harvard Clubs in the West. President Eliot invited the secretaires of the clubs interested to lunch at his house last Friday, in order to discuss the project. Those present organized themselves into a committee of which S. H. Longley '94 of Worcester was elected president and C. T. Billings '84 of Lowell, secretary...
...conclusion President Eliot said that corporations should provide their employees with those external conditions which will promote health, cheerfulness, and vigor in the working people. No corporate expenditure, he said, could be more productive or more profitable towards the improvement of the National character...