Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...travelled slowly north through Alabama and Georgia, to Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is situated. Guilford College, Trinity College, at Dunham, N. C., and the University of North Carolina were all visited by the President on his way to Richmond, Va. After a short stay there President Eliot left for Washington...
During his stay in Washington President Taft, at a private interview, offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. This offer President Eliot declined to accept on account of his unwillingness to undertake new and important responsibilities. Another honor was conferred on President Eliot by the Japanese ambassador; Mr. Takahira, who presented him, in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, with the first class order of the Rising...
...March 30 President Eliot was a guest of honor at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington, at which glowing tributes to his achievements and ideals were paid by President Taft and ex-Secretary of State Root. The following evening he spoke at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Maryland in Baltimore. For the last few days he has been the guest of Mr. F. c. Woodman '88, head-master of the Morristown School at Morristown, N. J. On Saturday evening he was the guest of the Harvard Club of New Jersey at its annual dinner...
President Eliot returns to Cambridge today after his two months' trip to the Southwest and South. His journey can well be compared with a march of triumph, for everywhere he has been received with the enthusiasm shown only to the greatest men of the nation. His days have been busy ones, days which would tax the vigor of the most hardy. But throughout Mr. Eliot has given gladly of his powers for the benefit of the University which he represents, and has undoubtedly done much to strengthen Harvard's rapidly growing influence in the South...
...CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Bible Study Conference. President Eliot and Mr. E. C. Carter '00. Appleton Chapel...