Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...divisional committee appointed by President Eliot to consider the revision of the tabular view has already held two meetings and has discussed several propositions looking to the relief of the present congestion of courses in the morning hours. The committee is considering the question of the entire tabular view of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The chief difficulty lies in the arrangement of undergraduate courses in the College. The graduate hours are not open to serious objection, and, owing to the fact that most of the scientific courses do not offer any considerable number of electives, the Scientific School...
President Eliot as the representative of the Corporation will formally receive the new building. Mr. J. H. Schiff, donor of the building, will speak for the visiting committee of the Semitic Department, of which he is chairman; Professor D. G. Lyon, the curator, will describe the history and growth of the Museum, and Professor C. E. Norton will speak for the Board of Overseers. An address will also be made by Dr. Cyrus Adler, librarian of the Smithsonian Institute of Washington, and curator of the Semitic section of the National Museum. The exercises will be followed by an inspection...
...Henry Green, and will be a four story brick edifice, surrounding a rectangular court 50 by 20 feet. It will contain thirty suites, each fitted with a bath, fire-place, electric lights, and telephone. The basement will contain a billiard room and cafe and will be connected with Eliot Hall, which is now nearly completed on Mifflin Place, by an underground passageway. The building will probably be finished next August...
...Bulletin which appears today prints in full President Eliot's address before the Newsboys' Union, delivered in Boston last Sunday evening. He set forth in a comprehensive way the qualities that tend most to make a successful life, and emphasized the idea that hard work is the greatest of all promoters of human happiness...
...Saturday afternoon, was attended by a large number of Mrs. Palmer's friends and associates. President Angell of the University of Michigan related Mrs. Palmer's work as a student at that University, and President Hazard of Wellesley College spoke of her later life as president of Wellesley. President Eliot and President Tucker, of Dartmouth, spoke of Mrs. Palmer's later life and work, both public and private. A number of appropriate hymns were sung by the University and Wellesley College choirs...