Word: eliot
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President Eliot's annual report, resently made public,--in addition to his discussion of the requirements to be maintained for a bachelor's degree, of the plan of athletics in the University life and of other general questions--contains the reports of the different departments of the University and the President's comments on the salient points suggested by them. These form an interesting commentary on the departments reviewed...
Several paragraphs are devoted to the various museums, some of which have entered new buildings or increased the facilities of their former quarters. The Fogg Art Museum has received valuable additions including objects of Ancient Greek and Egyptian Art and a number of examples of Turner's work. President Eliot adds: "Although the Fogg Art Museum was only finished in 1895, it is already time that the problem of enlarging it should be carefully studied, particularly with a view to obtaining ample, well lighted wall space for the exhibition of paintings and drawings...
...important events that President Eliot calls attention to in regard to Radcliffe College are the opening of Bertram Hall, and the conferring of the first Radcliffe degrees of Doctor of Philosophy. The death rate among the graduates of Radcliffe is very low, the first death among the 415 women who have graduated between June, 1883, and June, 1901, occurring in 1902. The fact is emphasized that Radcliffe College affords admirable opportunities for benefactors, in the form of buildings or endowments, on the part of those who wish to promote the higher education of women...
Commenting on the report of the Librarian, President Eliot mentions the work of the Committee appointed to study the needs of the Library. The Committee found that a building which would fairly meet these needs would cost about $750,000. An endowment to meet the cost of administration and service in such a building would also be needed. The accessions of the year to the library in Gore Hall were 14,017 besides 17,679 pamphlets...
President Eliot will leave Cambridge this morning for a brief trip to Chicago and Cincinnati. Tomorrow evening he will attend a dinner of the Harvard Club of Chicago, and on Monday evening a dinner of the Union League Club of Chicago. On Wednesday he will attend a meeting of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association at Cincinnati, returning to Cambridge on Friday...