Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...organized last Monday at Montgomery, with a membership of fifty. The following officers were elected: president, F. G. Bromberg '58; first vice-president, J. W. Sanford L.'51; second vice-president, A. Tyler '87; third vice-president, C. H. Barnwell A.M.'93; secretary and treasurer, H. Nelson '95. President Eliot and the deans of the various schools of the University were elected honorary members...
...committee on President Eliot's portrait has definitely decided to have an oil painting instead of a bust. Mr. John Sargent, R. A., will paint the portrait if it is possible to secure his services. The necessary funds were subscribed by the undergraduates in conjunction with the graduates resident in Boston and New York and the Harvard Clubs of Philadelphia and Chicago...
...series of addresses on "The Value of Debating" has been arranged by the University Debating Club. The speakers will be as follows: May 5, Hon. Curtis Guild '81, Lieutenant-Governor of Massachusetts; May 19, President Eliot. Mr. Louis Brandeis L.'77, and Hon. A. S. Hayes '91 will also speak on dates to be announced later...
...Advocate starts its seventy-seventh volume with a number that gives no exceptional promise, but is yet by no means uninteresting. Editorially the number is careful and pleasant, but not very pointed. Before joining the universal undergraduate chorus of greeting and good-will to President Eliot, the editor finds time to express regret that Harvard is so strongly representative of New England and to wish that more members of its Faculty might hall from other sections, thereby bringing to Harvard a broadening influence, and making it "not only the greatest University in America, but the greatest American University...
Acting on authority given by the trustees of the Rhodes Scholarships, President Eliot has designated the following persons to serve as the Committee of Selection for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Charles W. Eliot, chairman; George H. Martin, Secretary of the State Board of Education; Arthur I. Fiske, Head Master of the Boston Latin School; Rev. Endicott Peabody, Head Master of Groton School, and William K. Denison, Professor of Latin, Tufts College...