Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best thing about the mass meeting last evening was that portion of it that took the form of an impromptu demonstration which followed the meeting in the Union in front of President Eliot's house. It is a novelty in Harvard College to have such demonstrations of esteem and admiration and for that reason it was all the more genuine. It was a case of taking advantage of our opportunity, and our opportunities are limited from now on. In this respect the President was alert as usual and seized the opportunity to talk freely about his resignation. The ever-present...
...following is an appreciation of President Eliot's qualities and achievements given by President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton University, upon learning of his resignation yesterday...
President Eliot has resigned after forty years of unselfish devotion to Harvard University. In that period of time, a University has come forth from within the cofines of the small New England College of the sixties, a University built on broad and noble lines with ever increasing influence in this and other lands. The growth of the institution which he has served has followed in the wake of the growth of its recognized leader. His ideas of government, his conception of educational processes, his inspirations, have made possible the development of Harvard College. And now, after having...
What will Harvard University be with out him? The thought of a Harvard guided by any other than President Eliot is strange and hard to conceive. His influence has been so indestructibly stamped on the University that one can only with difficulty imagine it without him. To have the source removed seems almost destructive were it not for the fact that it can never be removed in spirit but will continue with us for generations. Few of us have known him personally but each time we have seen him we have admired him a little more; each time we have...
...ever made a deeper impression upon the educational system of a country than President Eliot has upon the educational system of America. His gilt for leadership, his discrimination in the choice of men, and his power to conceive and execute large plans have made him the most conspicuous and influential figure of the last forty years in American education. He has, moreover, shown a public spirit and a sense of duty in all matters confronting the life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private...