Word: wisdom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...appreciation and regard for President Eliot were shown by all the speakers as well as by the audience. Major Henry Lee Higginson '55 presided and introduced the speakers. In a short address, before presenting Governor E. S. Draper, the first speaker, he complimented the younger alumni on displaying more wisdom than their seniors by founding the Boston Harvard Club...
...University have been unceasing and his benefactions have been numerous. As a member of the Corporation since 1893, he has been a wise and far-sighted counsellor, a valuable associate in the administration of the University. He has given of his wealth as well as of his wisdom and his gifts are of the lasting kind. He has found his happiness in giving, first of all to his country during the days of the Civil War, and later to Harvard and the community in which he lives...
Dean Hurlbut in a short address explained the purpose of the meeting, and introduced President Hadley as one who while an undergraduate had won the highest honors his university could award and whose career as a writer and administrator has shown the wisdom of the choice. Most important of all, he is president of that university with which Harvard is most closely allied...
...Called to the presidency in early manhood, he has administered the affairs of this University for forty years with eminent skill and fidelity. Its vast development during his term of service has been mainly due to his rare wisdom, his strong convictions, his enterprise and his zeal. Prompt to initiate reforms and fearless yet prudent in pressing them, he has by his constructive energy transformed Harvard College into a university, and at the same time has exerted an influence on the educational forces of the nation which has largely shaped their policy, so that he stands today the leader...
...forty years he has administered the affairs of the University with wisdom, with patient foresight, with courage and with success...