Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington last evening the three principal speakers were President Eliot, the President of the United States, and ex-Secretary of State Root. The last two were vied in praise of President Eliot's character and ability, and, though no definite announcement was made relative to his appointment as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, both speakers attributed to him all the qualities necessary to the occupancy of that station...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in substance, that he had been greatly impressed during his recent travel in the South by the great gains education is making there, the most significant feature being the rapid growth and development and the improvement in quality of the secondary schools there. Harvard and all the great universities have especial interest in this gain of the schools. The prestige of Harvard must be maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value...
President Eliot will be the guest of the Harvard Club of Washington, D. C., at their 26th annual banquet tonight. Dr. H. W. Wiley '73 will act as toastmaster. Besides President Eliot the following will speak at the banquet: Hon. William H. Taft; Hon. Elihu Root, former secretary of state; C. W. Needham, president of the club; Dr. Charles Francis Adams '56. In addition to these men Dr. Edward Everett Hale '39, and J. D. Greene '96, secretary to the Corporation, will be present...
...CRIMSON publishes today the report of Dean L. B. R. Briggs '75 as chairman of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, which appeared in the same volume with President Eliot's report...
...President Eliot's last report to the Board of Overseers, he deals at length with two questions of great importance to the undergraduates. In regard to three-year graduation, the President believes that the regular College term should be reduced to that period. Such a change would raise the standard of labor in College, prevent the present confusion of the fourth year and "bring earlier into their professions the best trained young men." These results would undoubtedly be well worth accomplishing, but the benefit and pleasure to be derived from spending four years in Harvard College are not things...