Word: eliot
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President Eliot and Mr. Frye addressed a meeting in Huntington Hall, Boston, last night on the coming of the Cuban teachers to attend the Harvard Summer School. Mr. Frye described the wretched condition of the educational system in Cuba when the Americans arrived, and the rapid progress which is now being made...
President Eliot spoke of the right, now become a duty, of the North to do its share in the new development of the island. Through the teachers who come here it will be possible to reach the children, and education of the children is the quickest way to secure peace and good government for any people...
...public meeting to arouse interest in the coming of the Cuban school teachers to the Summer School will be held in Huntington Hall, Boston, this evening. Ex-Governor Wolcott will preside. Mr. A. E. Frye will address the meeting on "The School System of Cuba," and President Eliot will tell of the preparations which are being made here for the teachers...
...Lives." It is very important that they be sent in before the April recess, and I wish to urge those men who have delayed in sending, to mail them before they leave for the vacation. I shall be glad to send duplicate sets, if any one wishes me to. ELIOT SPALDING, Secretary...
...plan for the Summer School, as worked out by President Eliot and Mr. Frye, provides for transporting at least one thousand, and possibly two thousand teachers to this country, receiving and caring for them while here and giving them three months instruction. The government has consented to bring the teachers from Cuba, and four steamers will be used for the purpose. Upon their arrival in Cambridge the women will be placed in homes near the College, and the men in the dormitories. Memorial Hall, and, if necessary, Randall Hall, will be kept open all summer for their exclusive...