Word: eliot
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President Eliot will return to Cambridge today after a two months' trip through the South and West. In the course of his tour President Eliot represented Harvard at many meetings and dinners of graduates, and studied the educational and industrial conditions in large sections of the country...
...President, accompanied by Mrs. Eliot, left Cambridge on February 7 for Buffalo, N. Y., stopping at Rochester on the way. At Buffalo the President was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Harvard men of that city. He arrived in Chicago on February 10 and remained there for two days, speaking on "The Ethics of Industrialism" before the Religious Educational Association, and attending the annual dinner of the Chicago Harvard Club. The next few days were spent in hurried visits to Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
Returning by way of Chicago, he proceeded to Dallas, Tex., reaching there on February 20 after short stops at Nashville and Memphis. Having visited the Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, President Eliot went to Austin, where he was the guest of President S. E. Mezes '90, of the University of Texas. While there he spoke before both houses of the state legislature and addressed the local Business League on "Municipal Government." At San Antonio, on February 26, he was present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. After spending four days...
...Roberts, speaking in the English House of Commons yesterday, quoted President Eliot's opinion in the matter of the closing of drinking places, and added "we hope to see Dr. Eliot as United States ambassador to this country." The remark was greeted with hearty cheering...
...CRIMSON deeply regrets the obligation imposed upon it of publishing today the definitive refusal of President Eliot to accept the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James. While forced to concur with the President in his desire for retirement from responsible duties, we cannot help echoing the disappointment felt by his admirers in both countries. No one could have upheld better than he the honor of Harvard and of the American nation, and no one could have been found more worthy of representing their noblest aspirations and ideals...