Word: garfield
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President Eliot will leave Cambridge this morning for Williamstown, where he will speak on "Municipal Government" this evening before the Good Government Club of Williams College. While in Williamstown he will be the guest of President H. A. Garfield...
...Harry A. Garfield, A.B., LL.D., president of Williams College, gave a most instructive lecture on "Education as a Career" in the Living Room of the Union last evening...
...introducing President Garfield, President Lowell spoke as follows: "It has been said that every man ought to have a vocation and an avocation, but I know of a man who has four vocations, and made a success of each of them. Our guest of the evening has been a lawyer, a reformer in public life, an educator, and a college president; and he has done all of these with singular success, and in a way to excite the admiration of all who know him. I think he might speak with authority upon each of the four vocations I have mentioned...
President Garfield then gave the following address most of which is here printed verbatim...
President Garfield, the son of the late James A. Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States, was born at Hiram, Ohio, in the year 1863. He was graduated from Williams College in 1885, and studied at the Columbia Law School for a year. He then pursued his law studies abroad at Oxford College and at the Inns of Court, London. From 1888 to 1903 he practiced law at Cleveland in the firm of Garfield, Garfield, and Howe. He became professor of politics at Princeton in 1903 where he remained till he was elected president of Williams College...