Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order to appreciate properly President Eliot's contribution to the solution of social questions, it is necessary first to consider the real nature of those questions. The labor question is primarily one of hostility between two classes of the community--the employees in large industrial establishments and their employers. This hostility lies deeper than the questions of wages and the hours of labor. Such questions are the most frequent subjects of controversy, but if there were no questions of wages or hours of labor, other issues would be found upon which class hostility would express itself. It is obvious that...
...between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective efforts at the settlement of the labor problem must be directed. President Eliot has done a great deal in this direction by bringing laborers and employers together, by promoting free and frank discussion between them, by taking part in these discussions, and by setting at all times an example of patience and tolerance and of a truly democratic sympathy with all the parties...
...common good. Against the recrudescence of militarism and its accompanying vices of ceremonialism in religion and law, bossism and the demand for "regularity" in politics, and snobbery in social relations.--for these things can no more he dissociated than can snow and ice from winter weather.--President Eliot has thrown the weight of his influence. Though in a position where a man of lower ideals could have amply gratified aristocratic yearnings, he has maintained the higher dignity of democratic simplicity. For this, all those to whom the words democracy and liberty are more than empty sounds must be deeply grateful...
...have shown their talents by their achievements. Obviously, no race can maintain its quality if it practices those methods which stock breeders would adopt if they aimed at the production of an inferior stock, that is, by breeding principally from inferior or mediocre individuals. From this standpoint, President Eliot's observations concerning the size of the families of Harvard graduates are especially significant...
...commemoration of his seventieth birthday a reception will be given President Eliot by all undergraduates in the Living Room of the Union from four until half-past five this afternoon. While the reception is primarily an undergraduate affair all graduates and members of the Faculty are invited. It is the wish of President Eliot to have it as simple and informal as possible, and for that reason no speeches have been arranged. At five o'clock, however, certain important announcements will be made. Tea will be served in the dining room...