Word: england
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first convention of the New England Federation of Harvard Clubs will meet in Providence, November 20. The proceedings will begin with a luncheon given by the Harvard Club of Rhode Island. Afterwards there will be a business meeting at which addresses will be made by the presidents of the various clubs and representatives of the University. In the evening there will be a dinner at which President Eliot will speak on the "Harvard Clubs in New England." President Faunce of Brown University and Dean Briggs will also speak. The undergraduates now at Harvard from Providence will be asked to attend...
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...
...collection of the Germanic Museum was increased during the summer by the addition of a cast of the figure of King Theodoric from the tomb of the Emperor Maximilian, at Innsbruck. The statue is a companion piece to Arthur of England, already in the Museum, and is the gift of the Deutsche Gesellschaft of Boston...
...suggestion of Harvard, the future of colleges and universities which collect tuition fees will be discussed by the Association of Colleges of New England at its meeting at Boston University this morning. President C. W. Eliot '53 and J. D. Greene '96 will represent Harvard. The first session was held yesterday afternoon, at which the presidents of 13 colleges were present...
...feeling of the Harvard undergraduate with regard to Professor Norton's home and its influence. I have felt that I breathed there the true atmosphere of that university of the poets;--for while there have been notable poets at other universities, the Cambridge of America, like the Cambridge of England, has always attracted the poets, and men of poetic minds. Professor Norton has stood for the beautiful in literature, for the beautiful in art, and for the beautiful in life. It is significant that with all his admiration for the classical, he is known as one of the closest friends...