Word: eliot
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...farewell dinner at the Colonial Club Professor Ostwald expressed his gratitude for the friendly reception he had received and spoke especially of the receptiveness of American students for new ideas and their eagerness to follow them out. In reply, President Eliot thanked Professor Ostwald for his work here and dwelt upon the intellectual debt which America owes to Germany. The other speakers were Professor Shaler, Professor Francke, Professor Royce, Professor Munsterberg, Professor Goodwin, Professor Hall and A. A. Noyes of the institute of Technology...
President Eliot delivered an address at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon on "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy." He showed that in order to have a true belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country...
...influence of the association. A committee, made up of Stephen Chase '86, A. J. Garceau '91, and H. M. Williams '85, was appointed to report on this subject at the next meeting of the directors on Wednesday. This committee has held several meetings and now, after consultation with President Eliot, is ready to submit its report for the consideration of the directors, which, if approved, will have a considerable influence on the future workings of the Alumni Association. The new plans suggested in the report are an increase in the number of directors, a system of correspondence with Harvard clubs...
President Eliot will leave Cambridge this afternoon for Newtonville, where he will speak this evening at a college dinner to be given under the auspices of the Newtowne Club...
Tomorrow afternoon President Eliot will speak at the Prospect Union at 3.30 o'clock on the topic "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy. In the absence of A. A. Ballantine 2L., G. Bettman 2L. will preside. The lecture will be open to all members of the University...