Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Appleton Chapel, 7.30 p.m. Rev. Samuel a. Eliot, D. d., of Boston. Rev. Francis G. Peabody, D. D., will conduct morning prayers from April 6 to April 18. He may be found at Wadsworth House 1 daily from 11 till...
...three speeches delivered by President Eliot last October at teachers' meetings in New Haven, Conn., Concord, N. H., and Providence, R. I., have been prepared for book form. They will shortly be published by Doubleday, Page and Co., under the title, "More Money for Public Schools...
...three years' plan has the tremendous advantage of being sanctioned and advocated by President Eliot, whose word is deservedly regarded as authoritative in matters pertaining to education. Nevertheless, the President would undoubtedly welcome any honest expression of opposition to his opinion. That such opposition exists in the minds of a number of those undergraduates who have at all considered the matter, seems to me certain. It should not be forgotten that when the President says that competent men ought to attain the bachelor's degree in three years, most parents (who have a disinclination to consider their sons incompetent) will...
...George I. Aldrich, Superintendent of Schools, Brookline, speaking upon this subject, protested against the advanced admission requirements of the college and particularly of Harvard. President Eliot spoke at some length with reference to the amount of time that should be given to secondary education, and the difficulties involved by the present admission requirements. Reform, he said, in our own system, rather than the adoption of the German system is what is needed...
...dinner topic. Mr. Edwin P. Seayer '64, Superintendent of Schools, Boston, spoke on "Expenditures for the Public Schools," and Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham '86, of the Arlington Street Church, Boston, and Mr. Robert A. Woods, Head of the South End House, Boston, spoke on "Expenditures in Educational Philanthropy." President Eliot also spoke...