Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Charles Eliot Norton has recently been elected president of the Longfellow Memorial Association...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said that the objections to the dam had come from small groups of persons representing comparatively insignificant interests. The principle reason for erecting the dam is to promote the health and happiness of the 400,000 people who live within easy walking distance of the seven mile park that would probably follow its erection. Furthermore, the construction of the dam is necessary to the proper sanitation of the valley below Watertown, because great areas of the river bottom are often left exposed at low water...
...meeting referred to above will be held at 1.30 o'clock, when the Prince will arrive in Cambridge from Boston, and will be open to members of the Faculties, to students, and to a few invited guests. President Eliot will make a short address of welcome. This arrangement, however, is subject to change...
...would be worth the while of all Harvard men to read a character sketch of President Eliot, by George P. Morris, which appears in the March number of the Review of Reviews. The author reviews, with what is evidently sympathetic and admiring appreciation, the position of President Eliot among American educators. his character as a man, his early career, his work as president of Harvard, and finally, his opinions and expressions on some present educational, social and religious problems. One who reads this article will gain new understanding of the far-reaching and enduring service to Harvard and the general...
...evidence that the Christian Association aims to be as broad as the social life of Harvard. The men who replied to the toasts were of varied religious beliefs, and their expressed opinions covered a broad field of ethical and religious thought. Yet the many-sided views of President Eliot, of Major Higginson, of Col. Hallowell, of Bishop Lawrence and the other men who spoke, coincided in the one fundamental principle, emphasized by Frautz as the chief aim of the association, that religion, if it is religion, means an earnest and purposeful life and active and definite social service--and that...