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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...severe critic, but he was just. He was the outstanding exponent of freedom as contrasted with hampering restrictions in all educational endeavor. His wholehearted devotion to the service of education--a service which he deliberately chose early in life was conspicuously evident throughout his career; and for nearly fifty years he was the most influential educational leader in America...
...realms of Harvard legends. It is the white-haired man with his full, straight lips, and the direct expression in his eyes, the eloquent sage, the national oracle, who concerns the undergraduate to come. The forces that made him this were perhaps the same that aided him throughout his whole career, but it was only in that rare fruition of life which it is given to so few men to enjoy that Eliot could round his philosophy as completely as he rounded his life...
...Years ago, President Eliot made an address, which was subsequently printed and widely circulated, called "More Money for the Public Schools." He served as President of the National Educational Association and has given much time and attention throughout his career to the professional preparation of teachers. He was Chairman of the Committee of Ten on Secondary Education, whose report, in the early nineties, had a great influence on the high schools of the country. These are but items out of a long list which could be made of the services which President Eliot has rendered to the public schools...
...becoming crystalized and unified so as to become powerful to rise to great heights in the succeeding generations. It was a century when the colorful troubadours and trouveres of the twelve and thirteen hundreds were gradually ceasing, with the disappearance of cortoisie, to sing their love songs throughout the country-side. Little by little their unwritten tunes were assuming a style which at least is intelligible to the modern...
...first duty of the committees will be to elect chairmen. They will attend to the subscription of magazines for the Common Rooms, see that they are kept in order, and arrange for smokers and other social functions, which will take place in the dormitories throughout the year...