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...vest was presented to the President, who, however, has not been seen to wear it. It is a Christmas gift, a home-tailored garment, from one Joe Stinson, of Rumsey, Ky. It is neatly pieced together from strips of the skin of a seven-foot rattlesnake. Five rattles went with the offering, in a pocket...
Eminent in the guild of college presidents for the distinction of your scholarship and for the breadth and keenness of your vision, as well as for your record of accomplishment, you add the all embracing gift of "charity" which the Apostle stated to be so essential to the fruitful life...
There were ten speakers in Sanders Theatre who made short addreses to President Eliot. Among them was Charlton MacVeagh, the then President of the CRIMSON, who spoke for the students and presented at that time to the University as a gift from the students the Hopkinson portait of Dr. Eliot now hanging in the Faculty Room at University Hall. We quote two paragraphs from this speech...
...resulted in the establishment of the Graduate School of Education. He has always shown the keenest interest in the growth of the work Harvard has done in the technical training of teachers and superintendents and has never failed to express his belief in the future of that work. The gift of half a million dollars from the General Education Board, which forms the basis of the endowment of the Graduate School of Education, was made by the Board largely in recognition of Professor Hanus's services to education and also with an expression of special satisfaction in the fact that...
...same case may be seen Samuel Taylor Coleridge's copy of 'Barclaii Argenis", with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English...