Word: eliot
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President Eliot left New York yesterday morning for Chicago, where he will remain through next week. While there he will attend a meeting of a committee appointed by the National Educational Association to consider the project of a National University in Washington. He will also take part in a conference called by the University of California to discuss the requirements for the admission of American students to examinations for the higher degrees in foreign universities. All the larger universities of the country will be represented at this conference, and the U. S. Commissioner of Education will also attend...
...parlor of Phillips Brooks House will be open on Friday afternoons from four to six during the rest of the winter. Mrs. Eliot, Mrs. Pickering, Mrs. Shaler, and a few other ladies, together with some of the teachers in the different departments, will be present each week, and will be glad to welcome there, in a quite informal way, any members of the University...
...have received honorable mention by the committee of judges made up of Professor Charles E. Norton, Mr. F. H. Day and Mr. J. P. Loud. Of the pictures that are especially attractive are "After the Storm," by W. B. Swift '01, and "Sunset in Gloucester Harbor," by H. W. Eliot '02. Both of these pictures are reproduced in half-tone in the catalogue, which may be obtained free of charge at the exhibit. On the evening of February 26, Mr. Charles T. Carruth, president of the Cambridge Camera Club, will criticise the pictures before the members of the club...
President Eliot, in response to a request from Mr. A. E. Frye L. S. '90, Superintendent of Schools in Cuba, has consented to furnish free tuition in the Summer School, for a large number of native Cuban school teachers. According to reports from Havana, if adequate arrangements can be made, about 1000 teachers will take advantage of this offer. The government will probably furnish army transports for bringing them here, and Mr. Frye hopes it will be possible for them to visit many different cities, through the generosity of the railroads and the municipalities themselves...
...important that all the questions be answered, in order to make the statistics of the class complete. The lives are private, and are used only by the secretary in making up his report. The individual lives are not published in any way other than as a group of statistics. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...