Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, and of the calm and passionless force with which he gave rebuke or praise. Edwin...
...memories upon which these legends will be built; the tributes that his ninety-two years of useful life called forth will be food for still others. The something rich and strange that his name will be to future generations in the Yard will grow even more from the personal spirit than must forever live after him that spirit which was his own and which he made Harvard...
...Bless all his fellow citizens, east, west, north, and south, for whom he ever was wisdom, strength, victory, joy, and hope . . . Pour Thy spirit upon all Harvard men throughout the country, throughout the world, as they turn toward this place at this time in reverent, thoughtful, grateful, and lofty memory...
...Harvard men gathered there sang "The Character of a Happy Life," and "The King of Love my Shepherd is." That was all. President Eliot was never content to sit back and look over the past. He was almost to the very end concerned with the future. This was the spirit of the service...
Later he was buried in Mt. Auburn cemetery, again with the simplest kind of ceremony. And Harvard men returned once more to their work, carrying with them not tears and regrets, but President Eliot's spirit, a firm faith in progress and the future...