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Thomas Hill. "Too young a man," objected the Harvard Overseers, but the Corporation insisted. Alarm followed as 35-year-old President Eliot proceeded, in Oliver Wendell Holmes' words, to "turn the place over like a flapjack...
...features of the flapjack's new reverse are well-known: lectures instead of recitations, written instead of oral examinations, an elective curriculum, no more compulsory worship. Individualism was the keynote. New life entered the law and divinity schools. The libraries were expanded for research. "Virtue . . . duty . . . piety . . . righteousness," were more real words then than now; Dr. Eliot used them often. After 40 years, the name of John Harvard himself was no more deeply graven upon the tablets at Cambridge than Dr. Eliot's when he retired, at 75, "to spend the evening of his life in serenity...
...What is the next step?" but took it always deliberately, serenely, fearlessly. With all his remarkable achievement, he did not take two steps at a time. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes said of him when he was a young President of Harvard, he "turned the place over like a flapjack." It is not surprising that Theodore Roosevelt, born when Dr. Eliot was an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Mathematics at Harvard and dying when his college President was still in the vigor of his age, should have said of him: "He is the only man in the world I envy...
There are two parodies in this issue which are much better than the average -- "Ever Holdem?" and "The Diary of a Very Fresh Freshman" by Charles Buncom Flapjack. In each of these the writer has taken advantage of a very pronounced style in works which are probably familiar to all, and brings in his points very cleverly...