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...George Herbert Palmer and Charles William Eliot on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the latter's incumbency of the presidential chair at Harvard University. Through the extreme courtesy of Professor Palmer in allowing the CRIMSON to publish these illuminating documents the public is given a personal contact with Dr. Eliot wholly delightful...
...long experience has shown that formal, public expression of tribute to men who have stood outstandingly for these things is a psychologically sound means to that end. Those of us who have, in the preparation of this memorial issue, studied Eliot's life and work, and thus indirectly gained contact with them, have been more than repaid by the inspiration they offer. In a much greater and more adequate way than the CRIMSON'S necessarily limited effort, a memorial service in which all Harvard can participate will fulfill the same double purpose, expression of gratitude for the past efforts...
...President Eliot belongs the honor of having brought the college study of America into close and active contact with its public work and business life...
...time and energy spent by the authors of the Memorial Issue have been far more than repaid by the contact they have afforded with their object. Next to knowing President Eliot in person, the greatest pleasures are to be derived from reading what he has written and spoken and from talking with those who have been both humanly and academically acquainted with him. It is with the deepest feeling of gratitude to a great man that the editors of the CRIMSON, present this Memorial Issue to do him honor in their small but sincere...
...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 Mead writes in the Springfield...