Word: eliot
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...Harvard Engineers' Alumni Association of New York City held its first annual dinner Saturday evening at the New York Harvard Club. G. S. Rice '70 acted as toastmaster and among the speakers was President Eliot. He spoke of the prominent part played by engineering in the development of the world and the responsibilities of an engineer. The engineer's profession is one of work, he said, and after all, to put forth one's utmost efforts in anything gives most durable satisfaction; and to put forth one's utmost is the end and object of democracy and public liberty...
President Eliot was appointed Godkin Lecturer for 1907-08 at the last meeting of the Corporation. This lectureship was established in 1904 in memory of Edward Lawrence Godkin h. '71 by the subscriptions of his friends who raised a fund, the income of which is to be devoted to lectures on free government and the duties of citizens. President Eliot will speak in May on some phases of municipal government...
President Eliot will go to New York today to attend this evening the annual dinner of the Harvard Engineers' Alumni Association of New York City. The dinner will be a large one, as there are about two hundred graduates of the engineering department in and around New York. The question of the new general organization of Harvard engineers, to be a branch of the Alumni Association, will be brought up. Dean W. C. Sabine '88, Professor H. L. Smyth '83, and Professor I. N. Hollis '91 will also be present...
President Eliot and Major Lynch were the guests of honor last night at a dinner held by the Harvard Travellers Club in Boston...
...patronesses, Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, Mrs. J. H. Beale, Mrs. W. A. Neilson, Mrs. Bliss Perry, Mrs. J. J. Putnam, Mrs. H. S. White, and Mrs. J. H. Wright, will receive in the Living Room from 8.30 to 9.30 o'clock; and supper will be served in the Dining Room from 9.30 to 11 o'clock. There will be dancing in the Periodical Room from 9 to 12 o'clock. The main entrance of the Union will be closed after 7.30 o'clock this evening, and only those holding tickets to the reception will be admitted after that time...