Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...England Country Church Association will hold a conference on the problems of the rural church in New England in Tremont Temple today and tomorrow. President Eliot will address the conference in Lorimer Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. His subject has not been announced...
...last meeting of the executive committee of the Alumni Association in Boston Charles William Eliot '53 was elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association. President Eliot is the thirty-third president of the association. John Quincy Adams 1787 was the first president and was succeeded by Edward Everett 1811. The principal duty of the president of the Alumni Association is to preside at Memorial Hall on Commencement Afternoon, when he will introduce as speakers the President of the University and the Governor of Massachusetts...
President Eliot delivered an address on Radcliffe College at a luncheon given by the Radcliffe College Club at Delmonico's New York, on Saturday afternoon. He discussed the growth of the institution and its advantages over other women's colleges, in that it had male teachers selected with the greatest care...
President Eliot first assured his audience that Radcliffe had improved and developed during his administration. Large additions to the lands and buildings of the college have been made within the last years, of which three are especially valuable. These are the two dormitories and the library. The former are of special importance, because they make possible a different from of college life and will draw the most desirable class of students, now that all can live together...
...physical exercises and out-of-door sports. Football, baseball and cricket were played, while boating on the Charles River was a pastime popular with all. There were at Harvard no fewer than 12 boat clubs in those days. One of these, the "Orion," had for its president Charles W. Eliot '53. In early intercollegiate regattas Harvard was usually the winner, but sometimes the prize even then went to Yale. After one of these defeats the officiating clergyman at morning prayers gave out the hymn by Cowper which ends...