Word: interviewed
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...business department at the Social Union this year men are needed to teach shorthand, penmanship, and book-keeping; and I shall be glad to interview anyone interested in the work at Stoughton 9 tonight at 7 o'clock. E. E. HUNT...
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...
...official announcement from Secretary Knox of the State Department has confirmed the report that President Eliot has definitely declined the tender of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James made to him at an interview with President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House on Wednesday. It is the 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...
Washington, D. C., April 1, 1909.--As a result of the interview between President Eliot and President Taft in the Blue Room of the White House yesterday, no official decision has been made by President Eliot either in acceptance or refusal of the ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. It is ascertained, however, from sources close to President Taft that President Eliot told Mr. Taft at the time the offer was made that he was disposed to refuse it, inasmuch as he was retiring from the Presidency of Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties. He stated...
...yesterday's issue the Yale News published an interview with President Eliot on Harvard's football situation. He has simply relieved their minds on a matter of which we already felt assured--that Harvard will play next year just as usual. Yale did not know, as we do, that in the natural course of events authority vests in the Athletic Committee, in whose loyalty to intercollegiate athletics we now have confidence. Such an authoritative expression of opinion as a Faculty vote worried our rivals nearly as much as it did us at the time. It is but an example...