Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...meeting yesterday in Boston the Board of Overseers voted to concur with the Corporation in electing Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D., an Eliot Professor of Greek literature; in appointing Charles Palache, Ph.D., assistant professor of mineralogy, for five years from September 1, 1902; in the appointment of Denman Waldo Ross, Ph.D., as lecturer on the theory of design, from September...
...request of the Corporation, President Eliot has appointed the following members of the Medical Faculty to act as an advisory committee on the location and construction of the new buildings of the Medical School: Dr. J. Collins Warren, chairman, and Dr. W. L. Richardson, Dr. Bowditch, Dr. Wood, Dr. E. H. Smith, Dr. Whitney, Dr. F. C. Shattuck, Dr. Minot, Dr. Burrell, Dr. Ernst, Dr. Harrington, Dr. Pfaff, Dr. Theobald Smith, Dr. Dexter, Dr. Mallory, and Dr. Cobb, secretary...
...draught and only doubles the inducements for blackmail." The second moral evil which would accompany an attempt at strict enforcement, is the increase in those places where liquor can be legally sold on Sunday, the Raines Law hotels. "The Liquor Problem," a work prepared under the direction of President Eliot, James C. Carter and Mr. Low, states that when Roosevelt started to close the saloons in May, 1895, there were about 300 hotels in what then constituted New York City. When Roosevelt left office two years later, those 300 hotels had increased to 2400. The reports of the Committee...
...seems probable that the donor was the George Smith who graduated in 1853, with the class of which President Eliot was a member. It has been suggested that the gift be applied to dormitories for the new Medical School...
...degrees from the College should vote for overseers. After this act was passed, a movement to have the franchise extended to graduates of the Lawrence Scientific School and of the Law School was started, as both had greatly increased in importance. The suggestion for the change came from President Eliot and it was mainly through his persistent efforts that the movement has spread...