Word: eliot
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After the luncheon a reception was held in the living room, at which addresses were made by President Eliot and Mr. Lees Knowles...
President Eliot welcomed the visitors to Harvard, and spoke of what American athletes should learn from the English. In the first place, they should learn to prepare for athletic contests with a shorter period of training. Judging by English experience, training in American colleges covers a period unnecessarily long; and athletics are taken too much as hard work and not enough as genuine pleasure. In England men go into athletics primarily for pure sport, and are not inclined to overestimate the value of victory, as we are. We should also learn from the English to keep our games the same...
...following men have been invited to serve on the reception committee at the Union: J. C. Grew R. M. Green, M. R. Brownell, C. H. Schweppe, E. Bowditch, D. C. Campbell, C. S. Sargent, Jr., T. H. Graydon, H. W. Eliot, H. M. Gittings, R. Abercrombie, C. Bell, J. A. Burgess, R. Sanger, L. B. Wehle, D. D. L. McGrew, J. L. Motley, C. Blagden, A. Hollingsworth, A. Stillman, G. Clark, C. H. Krumbhaar, Jr., L. B. McCornick, A. S. Dixey, G. Bancroft, T. L. Manson, W. B. Chase, H. W. Dunn, P. A. Moses, M. L. Feary...
Charles William Eliot, LL.D., President; Henry Lee Higginson, A.M., Fellow; Wolcott Gibbs, M.D., LL.D., Rumford Professor and Lecturer on the Application of Science to the Useful Arts Emeritus; Charles Eliot Norton. Litt.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Overseer, Professor of the History of Art Emeritus; William Watson Goodwin, Ph.D., LL.D., D.C.L., Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus; James Bradley Thayer, LL.B., LL.D., Weld Professor of Law, and John Collins Warren, M.D., LL.D., Hon.F.R.C.S., Professor of Surgery...
...following is an extract from the speech of President Eliot at the Commencement Dinner, which thoroughly explains Mr. Morgan's generous gift...