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Among the prominent guests who gathered in Sanders Theatre to honor President Eliot were Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Judge Edward T. Sanford '05, of the United States Supreme Court, Governor Cox of Massachusetts, Presidents Angell of Yale and Garfield of Williams, and many others of the nation's foremost citizens. Following numerous speeches by these men, the scene shifted to the Yard where final ceremonies culminated in a brief exhortation by President Eliot...
Forty-four years earlier James G. Elaine had eulogized the dead Garfield...
...Osage, formerly of the London "New Age" and at present connected with a new movement in education, will speak at the Liberal Club at lunch today. His subject will be "The Garfield Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man." The luncheon is open to all members of the University...
...Institute has for three years past been a power-house generating serious discussion of international affairs. First projected in 1913 by Harry A. Garfield, President of Williams, it became real in 1921. Mr. Baruch guaranteed its expenses for three years. There were 138 members enrolled, most of them over 50 years of age; half of them from uni-versity faculties, the other half lawyers, diplomats, clergymen, journalists, business men, representatives of the Army and Navy. Distinguished men were secured to give lectures open to the public and to lead the Round-Table Conferences for members only...
...authoritative account of the U. S. Constitutional Convention) ; Louisa C. Adams, widow of John Quincy Adams, franking privilege and $25,000 cash; widows of John Tyler and James K. Polk, annual allowances of $5,000 each; widow of Zachary Taylor, franking privilege and $5,000; widow of James A. Garfield, franking privilege, single payment of $50,000 and annual payment of $5,000; Mrs. McKinley and Mrs. Roosevelt, annual payments of $5,000 each; widow of Grover Cleveland, no allowance (one was proposed, but when opposition arose, Mrs. Cleveland, now Mrs. Francis Folsom Cleveland Preston, requested that the proposal...