Word: predecessor
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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This is an occasion of rejoicing, not to one institution alone, but to all. We congratulate Harvard on her choice of a President; we felicitate Harvard's President on the opportunity which lies before him. Upon you, Mr. Lowell, falls rightfully the mantle of your predecessor; not simply by virtue of your office, but also by what you have done to merit that office. To a name already famous you have added new lustre. Your earliest writings gave an understanding of the real conditions of American business and American politics. In your later writing you have a similar understanding...
...fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college; but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
...fame has expanded into the university whose name and influence are known to all the world. The problems of the large institution are different from those of the small college, but we are confident that President Lowell will reach their solution as wisely and as certainly as his great predecessor overcame the obstacles of the last administration...
Just as the crowd was about to leave the hall, and after Mr. Eliot had already left, President Lowell rose and spoke of his predecessor as follows: "It is President Eliot's wonderful strength of character that has brought him through his forty years of unselfish work for Harvard crowned with well earned laurels from all over the world, and has given our University her present undisputed supremacy throughout the length and breadth of this broad land...
...beginning today. Rowing out of doors will come later than usual this spring because of the new dam, but when the ice does go out of the Charles, we confidently expect to see an eight which will live up to the splendid reputation made by its victorious predecessor...