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President Eliot will return to Cambridge today after a two months' trip through the South and West. In the course of his tour President Eliot represented Harvard at many meetings and dinners of graduates, and studied the educational and industrial conditions in large sections of the country...
From this time until March 19 he travelled slowly north through Alabama and Georgia, to Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is situated. Guilford College, Trinity College, at Dunham, N. C., and the University of North Carolina were all visited by the President on his way to Richmond, Va. After a short stay there President Eliot left for Washington...
President Eliot was the first speaker. He said in substance, that he had been greatly impressed during his recent travel in the South by the great gains education is making there, the most significant feature being the rapid growth and development and the improvement in quality of the secondary schools there. Harvard and all the great universities have especial interest in this gain of the schools. The prestige of Harvard must be maintained before the country by the conspicuous success of its graduates. The changes in the methods of education in the last 40 years have emphasized the value...
...decades, but the immense influence which the country has exerted upon other nations. The American Revolution taught England how to treat her colonies, so that they are today most loyal to her. The Constitution has had a momentous influence upon every country in the world. Immediately after its framing, South and Central America and Mexico became republics, modelling their constitutions after that of this country. Another republican and spiritual influence upon foreign nations has been the formation of cosmopolitan clubs in the American universities, and the fraternizing in the United States of all nations. Indeed, America itself is a great...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "The Itinerary of the Shaler Memorial Expedition of 1908 to South America" (continued). (Illustrated by the Stereopticon.) Professor Woodworth. Mineralogical Lecture Room...