Word: leaders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more illogical and wrong than to make the development of bodily health depend upon a similar system. This like the development of the mind. Should depend upon endowment in the case of private institutions, and upon legislative appropriations in the case of state universities. The CRIMSON hopes that Harvard, leader in a same athletic policy, will be the first to raise an athletic endowment to cover the expenses of all sports and so relieve intercollegiate football from a burden which it should not be forced to carry...
...upon his death, there has been this chorus of memory and of appraisal. Glenn Frank, head of a large Western university and leader of that group in education today which is working almost directly away from Dr. Eliot's conception of the college, writes in the Nation. "A few letters, written in his precise longhand," with "some of the Olympian sweep of his spirit," form the only personal contact between the two men. Robert Littell in the New Republic recalls his early days as a teacher under Dr. Eliot, speaks of the warmth that lay under his austere interior...
...commentator on national affairs, Dr. Eliot never hesitated to speak his opinion. An implacable enemy of jingoism and of militarism, he at the same time tempered his principles with wisdom. The Anti-Imperalist League which won such undeserved unpopularity in 1898 had no more ardent nor outspoken leader than the President of Harvard University. We of this generation do not know of this, but we have some idea of what he meant to America when we think that Theodore Roosevelt acknowledged him as the one man in the world he envied. The Great War is different, however, most...
...similar position in the history of this country; but his influence has been far wider in its scope than the university, even when the influence of Harvard graduates and Harvard teachers is taken into account. President Eliot has been in a true sense an educational leader for the nation. The educational policies he introduced into Harvard College have been taken up not only by other collegiate institutions, but also by the schools and he has had a profound influence through his direct leadership in school affairs. In speeches, essays, and committee reports, his opinions have had currency among teacher...
...quoted a few passages from scripture, like this. "Behold I have given him for a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander to the peoples." He closed with the words...