Word: honoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President, accompanied by Mrs. Eliot, left Cambridge on February 7 for Buffalo, N. Y., stopping at Rochester on the way. At Buffalo the President was the guest of honor at a dinner given by the Harvard men of that city. He arrived in Chicago on February 10 and remained there for two days, speaking on "The Ethics of Industrialism" before the Religious Educational Association, and attending the annual dinner of the Chicago Harvard Club. The next few days were spent in hurried visits to Milwaukee, Minneapolis and St. Paul...
During his stay in Washington President Taft, at a private interview, offered him the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. This offer President Eliot declined to accept on account of his unwillingness to undertake new and important responsibilities. Another honor was conferred on President Eliot by the Japanese ambassador; Mr. Takahira, who presented him, in behalf of the Emperor of Japan, with the first class order of the Rising...
...belief of Secretary Knox and Senator Lodge that President Eliot's declination is final, and that he cannot be induced to change his mind. He showed that he was retiring from the presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties and that, although the honor conferred by such a position might be great, he was not disposed to undertake new responsibilities which might not be agreeable to him. Although President Eliot was urged to defer the refusal of the post until he had taken it into further consideration, he thought it better to come to a definite...
President Eliot will be the guest of honor at the sixth annual banquet of the Harvard Club of New Jersey at Morristown this evening...
...accept the post of Ambassador to the Court of St. James. While forced to concur with the President in his desire for retirement from responsible duties, we cannot help echoing the disappointment felt by his admirers in both countries. No one could have upheld better than he the honor of Harvard and of the American nation, and no one could have been found more worthy of representing their noblest aspirations and ideals...