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...collection of opinions on the value of President Eliot's work, the book is invaluable. The Massachusetts Legislature, Harvard Clubs and Harvard graduates have their praises carefully preserved as a lasting remembrance. The character of the book and its publication on March twentieth, exactly one year after the ninetieth birthday celebration, are both pleasant reminders of the genius of the great man whom the book is designed to honor...
...Ninetieth Birthday of Charles William Eliot" to be published next Friday, will be enthusiastically received by all Harvard men. A compendious volume which will give the story of that famous ninetieth birthday will keep its memories from fading, for all who witnessed it, and for those who could not attend, it will suggest the spirit of the anniversary...
...portrait of President Eliot presented to Harvard by students of all he departments of the University to commemorate his ninetieth birthday last week, is the work of Dr. Eliot's nephew, Mr. C. S. Hopkinson '91, of Cambridge, perhaps the best known living artist who is a graduate of Harvard...
When President Eliot accepted the parchment containing the expressions of felicity from representatives of practically every undergraduate activity in college, and delivered a brief exhortation to the 2,000 students assembled in front of University Hall to do him honor Thursday, he concluded ceremonies in celebration of his ninetieth birthday at which one of the most notable gatherings of distinguished citizens ever assembled was present...
...thank you very much for your coming here. I should like very much to look over these letters of students of Harvard University on my ninetieth birthday. A large part of the happiness I experience today comes from the fact that the hundreds of testimonies which reached me come from persons who are complete strangers to me and always have been, from persons with whom, according to their stories I never had any direct contact. They tell me that their careers have been determined by something they heard me say at a public meeting in their town...