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...contents of the Harvard Illustrated Magazine for May are what is known as "timely." Twenty pages are given to nine articles on President Eliot. The first, telling of the Man, is by Professor Palmer, whose seat is now next to the President's at the Faculty table; the next telling of the Administrator, by Professor Taussig; another, on the President and the College, by Dean Hurlbut; on the President and Education, by Professor Hanual a hearty voice from the South comes from President Craighead of Tulane; a foreigner's view is given by Visiting Professor Kuehnemann; the President...
...curious feature of the nine presidential articles is the scarcity of personal anecdote; nearly everything is said in the generalized form of "characterizations"; the well-known story of an early Faculty meeting in the Medical School, quoted from Dr. Holmes' life in Thayer's two pages, is the only exception. Evidently another series of articles, with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country...
...soon as the committee was appointed by the Corporation to look into the conditions at Memorial and Randall Halls, they invited Messrs. Gunn, Richards & Company, of New York, the well-known industrial engineers, to give both halls a thorough inspection. With characteristic thoroughness Mr. Gunn and his assis- tants went over both halls from top to bottom, and furnished the committee with an elaborate report. Many of the suggestions contained in this report the committee will put into operation at once; the others will be acted on as soon as convenient...
...take the same chair in the Medical School, which position he held for thirty-five years. Dr. Holmes was not only a doctor, but a good photographer, somewhat of an artist, a far famed poet, wit, and man of letters. His works are familiar to all, the best known being "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Elsie Venner," and many short poems...
...Holmes was equally successful. He lectured for many years in the Harvard Medical School, and his standing in his profession was always notably high. To be commemorated by so distinguished a company of men as are to speak in Sanders tonight is indeed a fitting tribute to this well-known and delightful poet...