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...Samuel Eliot then alluded to the fact that when Colonel Sever was in college he was only saved from being "rusticated" by the interference of the President, and thus the Sever bequest was insured. He recommended the matter to President Eliot as a good result of easy discipline. Turning to Governor Rice, he said, "I shall enter upon no encomium to Massachusetts. Here she stands, and here she sits...
...attempts on the part of the Sophomores to obtain a share of the "equal feast." At the close of the dinner, Professor John Langdon Sibley was conducted to the head of the table to lead the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, after which Dr. Samuel Eliot, the President of the Alumni Association, arose and spoke as follows...
After some pleasant reminiscences, he introduced President Eliot, who was welcomed with cheers. After speaking of the new Gymnasium and other gifts to the University, which, during the past year, have amounted to over $300,000, the President said...
...Professor Baxter. A proposal to present from the estate of the late Geo. O. Hovey, Esq., the sum of $5,000 to the Harvard Medical School, provided "its advantages can be offered to women on equal terms with men," was referred to the following committee: Alex. Agassiz, Esq., President Eliot, Morrill Wyman, M. D., J. Elliot Cabot, Esq., and Le Baron Russell...
...attempt is made by American institutions to prevent extravagant expenditure on the part of students by prohibiting gaming, horse-racing, contracting debts with very long credit and high rate of interest, or driving four-in-hands; but President Eliot thinks it will be fortunate if such regulations are not needed before our institutions are half as old as Oxford...