Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...should be the aim of every man who possibly can, to join the procession which will be formed at 7.30 p. m.: in front of University Hall. Headed by the band, the crew and the nine, the crowd will march around the Yard to the homes of President Eliot and Professor Hollis, who will respond; and then to Soldiers Field, where a huge bonfire has been made ready. As the committee in charge of the celebration has arranged for a large amount of combustible material, it is earnestly requested that no raids be made on the football grand-stands...
...opening meeting of the Graduate School was held last night in University 5. Addresses were made by James Mills Pierce, former dean of the School, by President Eliot, and by A. S. wheeler '96, president of the Graduate Club. Dean Wright presided...
President Eliot, who followed, told of the starting of the Graduate School in 1872, at a time when the regular requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in all American colleges were three years residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted...
...celebration in honor of last year's victorious crews and nine will be held on Friday evening. A procession, headed by the crews, the team and the band will form in the Yard at 7.30. After marching around the Yard, and to President Eliot's and Professor Hollis's, it will go to Soldiers Field, where there will be a bonfire. Those who desire torchlights can obtain them, filled with oil, for twenty-five cents at Brine's. To pay for oil barrels and a barge for the teams and incidentals, it is necessary to raise fifty dollars. Subscription books...
President Eliot, who spoke first, said in part: The men who have come here for the first time have joined a body of men, twenty thousand strong, some living, some dead, but all making themselves equally heard. Yet in joining the College, they incidentally become members of one of its smaller groups; in fact the group, in the choice of subjects, rather than the particular class joined, is largely to determine the kind of men with whom they become most intimate. By this principle of subdivision the large college is distinguished from the small college. President Garfield once remarked that...