Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After an inauspicious invitation to attend a small celebration to be given in his honor, President Eliot was first made aware of the huge assembly which had gathered to pay him tribute, when he saw the procession which was forming in front of Memorial Hall. This assembly, which a year ago this afternoon conducted the President Emeritus to Sanders Theatre, included many nationally-known figures. Representing the public in the conduct of the celebration were William Howard Taft. Governor Channing H. Cox, and the Premier of Canada, W. L. Mackenzie King. Justice Edward T. Sanford '85, President of the Alumni...
...many fields of activity on which he has given constructive criticism are secondary and industrial education, municipal government, and international relations. In 1909, on his resignation from the presidency of the University, he was offered the post of Ambassador at the Court of St. James, the highest diplomatic honor which the President of the United States can confer, but he declined on account of his advanced years...
...Clubs and Harvard graduates have their praises carefully preserved as a lasting remembrance. The character of the book and its publication on March twentieth, exactly one year after the ninetieth birthday celebration, are both pleasant reminders of the genius of the great man whom the book is designed to honor...
...President, with members of his Cabinet and the entire Diplomatic Corps, attended services at the Concordia Lutheran Church in honor of the late President Ebert of Germany...
...military matters arising out of the Versailles Treaty and as such he is Chairman of the Inter-Allied Military Commission. Although he is in active service (as are all Marshals of France) at the age of 73, he is not Commander-in-Chief of the French Army; that honor belonging to Marshal Petain...