Word: eliot
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There is published on another page a brief summary of the achievements of a number of the men who have been spoken of as successors to President Eliot. No attempt has been made to compile a complete list of the candidates but the CRIMSON feels responsible for presenting to its readers the facts of interest concerning those men who have evoked the greatest amount of discussion in this connection among graduates and others interested in the selection. The conservatism which should characterize this column prevents the writer from commenting on these men here and indicating personal views and preferences...
...President. The election originates with the Corporation which communicates its decision to the Overseers for their approval or rejection. In case the nomination is rejected the Corporation is obliged to make another choice. The same man may be re-nominated, which happened in the case of President Eliot's election, or the Corporation may propose a new name. In either case the process is the same and the Overseers have the final decision...
...President and Fellows of Harvard College, commonly known as the Corporation, consist of Charles William Eliot '53, president; Henry Pickering Walcott '58, Henry Lee Higginson '55, Francis Cabot Lowell '76, Arthur Tracy Cabot '72, Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, fellows; and Charles Francis Adams, 2nd., '88, treasurer. The Board of Overseers consists of the President and Treasurer of the University, ex officiis, and the following persons by election: Francis Lee Higginson '63, James Jackson Storrow '85, George Angier Gordon '81, Francis Randall Appleton '75, William Watson Goodwin '51, Moorfield Storey '66, Henry Shippen Huidekoper '62, John Noble '50, Winslow Warren...
...tenth annual conference of the Association of American Universities is now in progress at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. President Eliot and Mr. Joseph Warren '97, assistant secretary to the Corporation, are the Harvard delegates. President Eliot will not present a paper before the conference, but he will take part in the discussion following the reading of contributed articles...
...February 8 President Eliot will be present at a dinner given by the Harvard Club of Buffalo. On the following day he will go to Chicago, where he will address the Religious Education Association on "The Ethics of Industrialism" on the next evening. On the evening of February 11 he will attend a dinner of the Harvard Club of Chicago. On February 12 he will proceed to Minneapolis, and next day to Milwaukee and St. Paul. That evening he will be present at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Minnesota and on February 14 he will visit...