Word: finality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...definitely declined the tender of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James made to him at an interview with President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House on Wednesday. It is the belief of Secretary Knox and Senator Lodge that President Eliot's declination is final, and that he cannot be induced to change his mind. He showed that he was retiring from the presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties and that, although the honor conferred by such a position might be great, he was not disposed to undertake new responsibilities which...
...final cast is as follows: Pasquinot, father of Sylvette, C. B. Johnson 1G. Bergamin, father of Percinet, F. F. A. Pearson '11 Straforel, a brave, O. L. M. H. Lyding '09 Percinet, a lover, S. J. Perret '10 Blaise, a gardener, B. G. Whitmore '11 Sylvette, Miss Charlotte Adams...
...Castle, Jr., '00, Professor C. H. Haskins h.'08, Professor B. Perry, R. Burlingham '10, B. M. Cutting '10, G. W. Martin '10, H. V. Morgan '10, W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez '10, H. J. Pulsifer '11, N. R. Sturgis '12, J. W. Suter '12. Nominations. The final list of nominations follows: PRESIDENT. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55. VICE-PRESIDENT. G. P. Gardner '10. L. C. Seaverns '10. SECRETARY. C. L. Lanigan '10. P. Wyman '10. GOVERNING BOARD...
...Crothers h. '99 made the final speech of the evening. He advocated a newly planned graduate school for the purpose of retrogressive re-education for men who had obtained the degree of Ph.D. His plans were to have these men met by Freshman advisors and conducted through a course of re-education. Men who knew everything about subjects which nobody else knew anything about would be taught to think like other people. In this way they might at the end of a full course, be turned out youths of promise who were, indeed, likely to fulfill that promise...
...architects in their preliminary plans for a new gymnasium for Harvard have made provision for these several lines of physical activities, and what is still more important, they have so arranged the separate rooms that practice in different sports and exercises may go on, at the same time. The final details may, of course, be worked out later...