Word: eliot
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...meeting yesterday of the Rhodes-Scholarship Committee for Massachusetts, of which President Eliot is chairman, it was decided to admit graduates of secondary schools to the qualifying examinations. This will include graduates of high schools, academies, Latin schools and such private schools as prepare for college...
...afternoon of January 3, the day of the theatrical performance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Schiller's death, commemorative literary exercises will be held in the Fogg Lecture Room. President Eliot will preside. Mr. W. R. Thayer '81 will speak on "The international Position of Schiller, and Professor Francke on "the Message of Schiller to Modern Life." Professor Munsterberg h.'01 will draw a comparison between Schiller and Goethe and will close the exercises by reading the epilogue written by Goethe for the representation of Schiller's Glocke, which was given in Weimar in 1815 at the tenth anniversary...
President Eliot leaves this morning for New York where he will deliver three addresses returaing to Cambridge tomorrow night. This evening he will speak before the New York Round Table, a society composed largely of the school principals and teachers of New York City, on the subject of "College Entrance Examinations and the Certificate Method as Related to the Educational Ideal. Tomorrow morning he will address the New York Schoolmasters' Association on a subject not yet announced, and in the evening, in Cooper Union, he will speak under the auspices of the New York Department of Education, on "The Characteristic...
...previous years the Political Club is offering to men interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest...
...previous years the Political Club is offering to men interested in practical politics a chance to see the workings at the polls in the Boston city election next Tuesday. The Public School Association, which is led by Major Higginson and was recently addressed at Tremont Temple by President Eliot, desires a certain number of men to check off the voters at the booths and to hunt up delinquent voters. The association aims at keeping the Boston School Board out of politics and is absolutely non-partisan and non-sectarian. Its effect has been to give a more efficient and honest...