Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annual dinner of the Association was held in the Union at noon. After the dinner, speeches were made by Mr. J. J. Storrow '85, chairman of the Boston School Committee, Professor Suzzallo, of the department of Education in the Teachers' College of Columbia University, and President Eliot...
...last speaker was President Eliot. Apropos of Mr. Storrow's remarks, he declared that what we need to realize and act upon is that a democratic society is going to be divided into four layers. Contrary to this doctrine, the present school system has been organized on the idea that every boy may be President of the United States. This idea no longer accords with existing circumstances, since it ignores these four indispensable layers of democratic society; first, a thin, upper layer, consisting of a managing, leading, organizing class; second, a layer comprised of handworkers, who make their living...
...Joseph H. Choate'52, former United States ambassador to Great Britain, and General Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, will speak in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8 o'clock on "The Hague Conference." President Eliot will preside and introduce the speakers...
...Joseph H. Choate '52, American ambassador to England 1899 to1905, and Gen. Horace Porter, United States ambassador to France from 1897 to 1905, will speak in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock on "The Hague Conference". President Eliot will preside. These speeches will be open only to members of the University...
Besides President Eliot, speeches will be made by Principal H. P. Amen '79, Hon. J. B. Walker '47, Hon. J. T. Busiel '68, Hon. J. Walker, and other members of the academy faculty...