Word: eliot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Following the band and the chief marshal will march President Emeritus Eliot, President of the Alumni Association, and President Lowell, followed in column of twos by the fellows of the Corporation, the Governor, the Overseers and alumni. At Memorial Hall speeches will be made by distinguished guests and men who received honorary degrees at the inaugural ceremonies...
...course of time these simple methods were outgrown. President Eliot pointed out with unanswerable force that the field of human knowledge had long been too vast for any man to compass; and that new subjects must be admitted to the scheme of instruction, which became thereby so large that no student could follow it all. Before the end of the nineteenth century this was generally recognized, and election in some form was introduced into all our colleges. But the new methods brought a divergence in the courses of study pursued by individual students an intellectual isolation, which broke down...
...members of the University Club of Boston will give a dinner in honor of Dr. Eliot this evening at 6.30 o'clock. The dinner will be followed by a reception, at which representatives of a number of colleges and universities will be present...
There will be on exhibition in the Treasure Room of the College Library today and tomorrow from 1 to 5 P.M., and on Thursday from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., a collection of memorials connected with the successive Presidents of Harvard College, from Dunster to Eliot. The collection is complete in that it contains one or more interesting objects connected with every administration since...
...Trinity College; a folio Hebrew and Greek Bible which belonged to Increase Mather, and several of his works printed while he was President of Harvard College; Vice-President Willard's Commonplace Book; Leverett's private note-book of College affairs; and the book of signatures presented to President Eliot on his seventieth birthday and the orders conferred by foreign governments on President Eliot...