Word: states
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...interest among graduates in this matter has naturally been keen and widespread. The alumni in every state in the land have had it on their minds during these months and the possible men have been gone over thoroughly. President Eliot has gone on record as favoring a young and vigorous man who can shoulder the continuous and heavy work which the office involves. When President Eliot was inaugurated in 1869 he was only 35 years old and the Corporation has shown its fearlessness of comparative youth recently in appointing a new dean for the Medical School who is 32. Many...
...young man could not afford to go to college, as his mother depended upon him for support. As the successor of Charles Lowell in the control of the railroad at Burlington, he received his first experience in railroading. It was upon his advice that the first line across the state of Iowa was built. Throughout his career he always commanded respect for himself and his road by consideration and kindness for all those with whom he came in contact. In the capacity of officer of a bank in Lincoln, Nebraska, he spent $1,100,000 of his private wealth...
...Orleans, which he will reach on March 3, he will attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of Louisiana, visit the State University at Baton Rouge March 5, deliver the Founder's Day address at the Tulane University of Louisiana the afternoon of the following day, and be present at the annual Tulane dinner that evening. He will reach Montgomery on March 8. From March 9 to 16 he will journey from Birmingham to Charleston, stopping at the Universities of Alabama and Georgia. The next two days will be spent at Charleston, from where he will go on March...
Literally hundreds of thousands of lives have been annihilated by the force of the eruptions and the fires and the sea. Lower Italy is panic stricken; mere words cannot describe the awful state into which the country has been plunged. Heroic efforts to relieve the distress are being made by scores of men and women in the vicinity whose lives were spared, but more money and more provisions are needed. It is right that this community give of its abundance at this time and contribute liberally to this, the noblest of causes--the relief of human grief and suffering...
...Corporation, will leave Cambridge today for an extended trip to the Middle West. Des Moines will be the most distant point visited by Mr. Greene, who expects to return to Cambridge on February 11. The purpose of his trip is threefold: to visit some of the leading state universities of the country, to be present at the meetings of various Harvard Clubs, and to discuss with high school principals and others the subject of college entrance examinations. Among the institutions to be visited are the Universities of Michigan, Chicago, and Wisconsin...