Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEAR SIRS-The pamphlet entitled "Reply to President Eliot's Bay State Club Speech," which has recently been distributed among the students has aroused so much discussion, that perhaps I may be justified in asking you to print what seems to be the popular opinion in regard...
...address to the students at the last College Conference meeting, President Eliot described the proper function of a university to be "to teach its students to lead," as opposed to a military school which teaches rather obedience. Let us accept this definition, and try to ascertain the proper attitude of a university graduate toward politics. In the first place, if he is to lead public opinion he must himself have firm-opinions, which should be arrived at by careful, sincere and, if need be, "independent" thinking; and in the second place he should consider it to be rather his duty...
...article in Harper's Monthly by Chauncey M. Dephew, Yale '56, on Yale as a factor in American life, will be followed by an article on Harvard by Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and one on Princeton by Professor William M. Sloane...
...Eliot '80 was married last evening to Miss T. S. Hopkinson of Cambridge. The ceremony took place in the first Parish Church...
...points brought out in President Eliot's address to the students last evening are well worth our attention. It is indeed too often true that college men think only of what the college may do for them, and forget, or at least disregard, their own duties to the college. What we need to do here is to exercise our freedom in a manly direction. After all, it is not athletics nor even endowments and advantages which make the college-but men. Thus it is that the present and the future usefulness and worth of Harvard must be largely...