Word: honors
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Boston City Club gave a dinner last evening in honor of the Presidents of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. President Lowell, in speaking of the relations of the University to the community, laid special stress on the importance of confining university extension to fields in which the existing resources of the university could be placed at the service of the community. It was much better, he said, to have substantial instruction of a high grade given by a few of the most eminent and stimulating teachers than to have superficial or merely entertaining courses of a popular...
...Nichols as president of Dartmouth College. None of the delegates from Harvard will have any official part in the inaugural ceremonies, which take place this morning at 10.30 o'clock, but it is probable that President Lowell will speak informally at a dinner to be given this noon in honor of President Nichols...
...since maintained, the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, famous for its investigations of the clouds and for employing kites to obtain meteorological data. In 1889 he was a member of the International Jury of Awards at the Paris Exposition, and was then made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. He has also received a number of Prussian orders, in recognition of his efforts to advance our knowledge of the atmosphere. He has taken part in many scientific expeditions in all parts of the world, and is also will known as an editor, and author of scientific articles...
...behalf of Harvard University I want to thank you, Sir, and the other Delegates from Foreign Universities, for the honor you have done us by coming here. The ties of a common scholarship should be among the closest that bind together mankind, for they, know not time, place or nationality. The bond is universal and eternal. Men eminent by your achievements in literature, in history, in law and in science, bring us greetings from the older world of learning, and from our neighbors North and South, which we shall ever remember with pleasure and with pride...
...member of the Harvard Faculty you have shown practical efficiency in grappling with educational problems. As a teacher and as a scholar you have stood for the highest ideals of scholarly form and scientific method. To all of us, whatever our calling, your presence in this place of honor gives assurance of co-operation in working out the problems of today and inspiration in conceiving and shaping those of tomorrow...