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President Eliot was born in Boston on March 20, 1834. He acquired his early education at the Boston Latin School, from which he entered Harvard directly when 16 years of age, receiving his A.B. in 1853 and A.M. in 1857. Since then he has received the honorary degree of LL.D. from six colleges, and both the LL.D. and D.M. from Harvard in 1909. Almost half of President Eliot's life has been spent in the office of president of the University, for he was elected on May 19, 1869, and retired on the same date...
...real question raised by Dr. Flexner's proposals is not whether we shall teach Latin but whether we shall teach anything which will give the pupils something beyond the practical as popularly conceived...
...Another misfortune is that when a controversy has taken on a certain form it is impossible for us to get outside the presuppositions of that form. Dr. Flexner says: 'Teach science and practical craftsmanship.' We immediately take for granted that this means no Latin. Straightway the representatives of the classics take the stage as Dr. Flexner's principal opponent...
...means, too, that he must have some part in the spiritual commonwealth for which all else is little but a scaffolding. This does not mean that a knowledge of Latin declensions is a natural right. But it does mean that each human being should have some means of expression, some way of inviting his soul. Many different arts and crafts and sports may furnish these means. Any system of education which leaves them out is narrow and pedantic. Such a system must fail just as the so-called classical education has failed...