Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot's annual report for the year 1903-04 is published today. With the Treasurer's statement and the numerous departmental reports it makes a volume of 465 pages, the first fifty-two of which are written by the President himself. Three matters touched upon by President Eliot are current subjects of intense interest. These are the present financial condition of the University, the greater and lesser evils of the game of football, and the proposed alliance between Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...large factor in which is the falling in the rate of interest of funds from 7.82 percent, in 1871-72 to 4.77 percent, in 1903-04 and the consequently greater dependence of the University on students' fees, in spite of the enormous growth of the invested funds, President Eliot names the two obvious resources; raising tuition fees and procuring a larger endowment. The former resource he believes should be held in reserve and he cites in support of this opinion a resolution just passed by the Board of Overseers to the effect that "it is not expedient at the present...
President and Mrs. Eliot will sail for Europe from New York tomorrow, on a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles Eliot, and her children, who are now in Switzerland. They expect to return to America early in the spring. President Eliot has recovered from his recent attack of the grippe and is in his usual good health...
JOHN GILLEY. By Charles William Eliot '53. American Unitarian Association...
...Institut de France was organized in 1795 and contains five departments, the oldest and best known of which is the Academic Francaise. The Academic in which President Eliot is a member was organized in 1832. It has for its purpose the discussion of philosophy, law, political economy, history, politics and finance. There are 40 regular members, 6 associes etrangers and 48 corresponding members...