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...Influence of President Eliot Upon Education in America" is the title of the leading article, by D. S. Gibbs '27, an exhaustive and complete account of the history of Eliot's theories and of their success. F. V. Field '27 has written on "Harvard's Greatest Birthday Party," an account of the celebration of two years ago. J. F. Barnes '27 has written on his personal qualities, and to complete the undergraduate contributions, there is an article by H. W. Foote Jr. '27 on the funeral services that were held last summer...
...time and energy spent by the authors of the Memorial Issue have been far more than repaid by the contact they have afforded with their object. Next to knowing President Eliot in person, the greatest pleasures are to be derived from reading what he has written and spoken and from talking with those who have been both humanly and academically acquainted with him. It is with the deepest feeling of gratitude to a great man that the editors of the CRIMSON, present this Memorial Issue to do him honor in their small but sincere...
...exercises which appeared in the CRIMSON the next morning follows in part: The press of the crowd was so great that the combined efforts of the college police and a detachment of Cambridge patrolmen were necessary to keep it within the required bound. And it was only with the greatest difficulty that they succeeded in opening a passageway through the crowd for the cars of President Eliot and his following...
There is amazingly little that we know of him. The present Senior class heard him, on the occasion of what was probably the greatest ovation that has ever been given to a private citizen. He was very old, and his voice was very broken. He advised the young men who packed the Yard to marry early. Such was his last official appearance before the University he had built. Up to the last few years of his life, he was still to be glimpsed occasionally, and at very important functions, a few embarrassed undergraduates have had the privilege of stuttering before...
...speeches, essays, and committee reports, his opinions have had currency among teacher and school officers and have by them been given great weight in the determination of school policies. His influence has been sought in other fields as well, but it is hardly too much to say tha this greatest service has been for the schools of America and that his best fame is due to his leadership in American education...