Word: eliot
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...president of the Historical Society, will preside. The principal speaker of the evening will be Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson '41, LL.D. There will be responses, on behalf of the state, by Governor Douglas, on behalf of the city, by Mayor Daly, on behalf of the University, by President Eliot, and by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, representing the First Church in Cambridge. There will be music by the orchestra of the Cambridge Manual Training School, and singing by a chorus of school children...
President Eliot received the following distinguished men as guests of the University on Saturday: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States; Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the fleet, representing the Royal Navy and the British Government; Surgeon-General S. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Navy on the staff of Admiral Togo on board the flagship Mikasa in the battle of the Sea of Japan; Captain Ryan, R. N. naval attache to the British Embassy at Washington; Commander Isam Takeshita, Imperial Japanese Navy, naval attache to the Legation at Washington; and Captain Wyndham, British Consul...
President Eliot will receive a number of distinguished men, who are in Boston to attend the exercises commemorative of the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of Nelson, this morning in University Hall at 11.30 o'clock. They are: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, Ambassador and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States, Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, Admiral of the Fleet, representing the Royal Navy and the British Government, Surgeon-General S. Suzuki of the Imperial Japanese Navy, on the staff of Admiral Togo on board the flagship. Mikasa in the battle of the Sea of Japan, Captain Ryan, R.N., naval attache...
President Eliot addressed the first meeting of the Graduate Club last night on "The Scholar's Satisfactions in Life...
...every subject, said President Eliot, there is apt to be a word that needs definition. By the word scholar, is not meant the young student, but the man who devotes himself to observation, recording, discovery; the man who is going to be a scholar as long as he lives. In the last fifty years there has been a great change in the world's conception of a scholar. A scholar used to occupy himself with philosophy, literature, or some kindred work, but now we see scholars in a great variety of fields. It makes no difference what the scholar...