Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Below are reprinted for the first time two letters exchanged between George Herbert Palmer and Charles William Eliot on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the latter's incumbency of the presidential chair at Harvard University. Through the extreme courtesy of Professor Palmer in allowing the CRIMSON to...
But from the intelligentsia of this country, and indeed of the world, President Eliot was most fortunate in receiving untold praise a few years before on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. And since his death the same intellectual class have again pronounced encomiums clothed in the finest literary dress...
The present Senior class is the youngest Harvard group to have seen President Eliot at his last official University function. It is, therefore, fitting that this Memorial Issue contain some account of the celebration on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. Not only did that day impress itself upon the...
Few men have had the good fortune to live to receive praise for the work they have done. Most have passed out of the world before the public has made an estimate of their lives. President Eliot was almost unique in living a life of productivity appreciated the country over...
...very old, and his voice was very broken. He advised the young men who packed the Yard to marry early. Such was his last official appearance before the University he had built. Up to the last few years of his life, he was still to be glimpsed occasionally, and at very important functions, a few embarrassed undergraduates have had the privilege of stuttering before him. But except for these, the undergraduate of this college generation must fall back on the face that so serenely looks down upon the Faculty Room, and on the estimates of older men who knew...