Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...voted to concur with the President and Fellows in their votes electing Henry Pickering Bowditch, M.D., LL.D., D.Sc., to the George Higginson Professorship of Physiology. It was also voted to establish the Wales Professorship of Sanskrit, the Wales bequest made nearly fifty years ago having fallen due; the Charles Eliot Professorship of Landscape Architecture; and the Nelson Robinson, Jr., Professorship of Architecture, both of which have been founded through funds presented by Mr. Nelson Robinson...
...annual report of President Eliot, covering the last academic year, which is made public today, is notable on account of the statements it contains concerning the maintenance of the college course leading to the degree of A.B. and the relation of that course to the professional schools. Only recently Yale University has definitely declared its intention to abstain from the policy of requiring some degree in Arts or Science, or an equivalent standard, for admission to its professional schools; and President Butler of Columbia University in his recently published report, while maintaining that professional study should be based upon...
President Eliot's Arguments...
President Eliot begins his discussion of the requirements for the degree of A.B. by reviewing the recent steps by which they have been brought to their present state and sums up as follows...
...study. Professor G. F. Moore read brief extracts of letters from Professor Toy and others, and was followed by Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, the donor of the building, who as chairman of the visiting committee of the Semitic Department, formally transferred the building to the University. In conclusion, President Eliot, on behalf of the Corporation, accepted the gift, which he called the storehouse of a great historical past and said should be an inspiration for the future...