Word: eliot
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...operative Society has secured for sale a few copies of the history of Harvard College written by Samuel A. Eliot of the class of 1817, and published in 1848. The book is a small octavo of 190 pages and is entitled "A Sketch of the History of Harvard College and of its Present State." The value of the book is due chiefly to its appendix, which contains chronological lists, down to 1848, of legislative grants, donations from individuals and societies, and gifts of real estate from individuals and the town of Cambridge; and a map of the Yard, showing...
President Eliot on Saturday delivered the first of the annual series of University lectures, under the auspices of the Twentieth Century Club. He gave a survey of the condition of American education with an account of its successes and failures...
Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46 will give the first talk of the series on "Harvard Recollections" in the Fogg Lecture Room on Tuesday, November 14, at 8 o'clock...
President Eliot expects to make a trip to the Pacific coast this winter, leaving Cambridge about March 1. No details of his trip have been arranged, but he will undoubtedly be the guest of various Harvard Clubs in the West...
After these exercises came the presentation of candidates for honorary degress. In a long list of recipients the following men also hold degrees from Harvard: Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; William Watson Goodwin, professor of Greek Literature in Harvard University; Charles Eliot Norton, professor of the history of art, emeritus, in Harvard University; James Coolidge Carter, for many years president of the New York Bar Association; Joseph Hodges Choate, ambassador of the United States at the Court of St. James; Henry Lee Higginson, fellow of Harvard University; Richard Olney, former Secretary of State; Whitelaw Reid, editor...