Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...current number of the Graduates' Magazine is interesting because it devotes a large part of its space to an account of President Eliot and his work for the University. The President's inaugural address of 1869 which is reprinted in full deserves the atttention of all Harvard men. To quote from the Editor's note--" by comparing his recommendations in it with the actual Harvard of today, the reader can estimate the clearness with which President Eliot foresaw what was needed to create a great university, structurally complete, and in what manner he has been able to carry...
...Lindsay, commissioner of education in Porto Rico will be brought, to the United States this summer on transports by the War Department. Of these, nearly 300 will come to Harvard, arriving in Cambridge on July 2. Lodgings will be provided in the neighborhood of the College. President Eliot is now organizing the teaching staff, which will consist of about twelve persons, and also arranging the course of study to be pursued. The principal instruction will be in English, graded to meet the differences in the teachers' previous training. One quarter of the teachers will be women, and the expedition will...
...President Eliot's reception...
...Seniors cheer President Eliot and then Harvard, the latter to be taken up by each class and the graduates in succession...
President Eliot will give an address this evening, at 7.30 o'clock, in Tremont Temple, before the American Unitarian Association. Judge F. C. Lowell '76-and Rev. M. J. Savage h.'96 will also speak. The general subject of all three addresses will be "The Genius of the Unitarian Movement...