Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incorporators last Saturday, it was announced that $600,000 has already been contributed to the endowment fund by friends in Europe, and that $400,000 is expected from the United States. Major H. L. Higginson h.'91 contributed $100,000 on behalf of the University, and President Eliot, C. F. Adams '56 and Professor F. L. Olmsted '94 are named among the incorporators...
Davis, the second speaker for the negative, demonstrated the evil results of the free elective system at Harvard. This system, he said, has proved in many ways, unsatisfactory. President Eliot, in his inaugural address expressed the hope that by means of the free election of studies each student would secure a curriculum, chosen with regard to natural preference and inborn aptitude. It was his aim to substitute small, interested classes for large, uninterested ones, and to foster scholarship by increasing ardor and enthusiasm in the college and by relieving the various courses of the presence of perfunctory students. The history...
...position to judge as to the expediency of increasing the price of the tickets. If, as you say, the debt is being extinguished at the rate of $20,000 a year, it seems to me that the conditions would hardly warrant raising the price of the tickets. ELIOT SPALDING...
Commercialism, as President Eliot says, is one of athletics greatest evils. Make a beginning to out if out by reducing expenses of teams and the cost of sports to the students. J. N. TRAINER...
Seven members to be elected, of whom three shall be graduates--W. C. Lane '81, A. C. Coolidge '87, C. T. Copeland '82, D. W. Ross '75, J. H. Hyde '98, S. D. Preston '06, R. W. Beach '06, H. A. Bellows '06, J. D. Eliot '06, F. C. Irving '06, O. D. Filley...