Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Lowell will leave the South Station this morning at 11 o'clock to attend the annual meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs at Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. Eliot and a number of other Harvard graduates who live in the vicinity of Boston will leave this afternoon in a special car attached to the 1.45 train. Both President Lowell and Mr. Eliot are to speak at the meeting, which opens tomorrow and will continue through Saturday...
...scene before Mr. Eliot's house last night will remain forever in the memories of those who attended the mass meeting in the Union. It was a happy thought of the Student Council to decide on the presentation to the retiring president of some token of the undergraduates' esteem for him and for his achievements, and the night of his with-drawal from office was the most appropriate time for the occasion. The chief charm of the incident lay in its unexpectedness and spontaneity. After the words of presentation, Mr. Eliot spoke to the men assembled there in his usual...
...close of the mass meeting in the Union last evening, a large body of undergraduates gathered in front of President Eliot's house and cheered the retiring president until he appeared on the porch. As, in response, President Eliot stepped out of the house, F. H. Burr '09 presented him with a clock on which were inscribed the words: "To President Eliot from the Undergraduates of Harvard College...
President Eliot then expressed his appreciation of this token of the esteem of the undergraduates in the following words...
...answer to a cheer, President Eliot then spoke of the pleasure it would give him to keep the clock in the study of his Brattle street home, and in closing proposed a cheer for President Lowell. After singing "Fair Harvard," the assemblage broke...