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...Charles William Eliot found Harvard a select little New England college," declared Professor C. T. Copeland yesterday. "After forty years he left it the most important seat of learning in the Western Hemisphere. In the work of transformation he had the help of well-known scholars and administrators, eminent among them Dunbar and Gurney. But Mr. Eliot was the original, irresistible force. He is a great man, the title of whose greatness rests mainly on his creation of the first university in America...
...purpose of the Committee is to stimulate interest among Harvard men in the Silver Bay Conference, and to choose this year's delegation from Harvard. For the first time an application system will be used this year to select the delegation, and any men who are interested may obtain application blanks from members of the Committee, or from the Phillips Brooks House. The date of the Conference will be from June 12 to June 20. Last year the complete cost, including registration fee, board, and railroad fare, did not exceed $40.00, and the Committee has announced it will not exceed...
Professor Bliss Perry will be one of the judges to select the winning stories in the Harper's Magazine 10,000 dollar prize story contest, the first competition of which closes March 31. Serving with Professor Perry as judges are Meredith Nicholson of Indianapolis, Ind., a noted novelist, essayist, and philosopher; and Zona Gale of Portage, Wis., one of America's ablest short-story writers...
...Charles C. P. Clark of Oswego, N. Y. By it the qualified voters of a city would be divided into regional groups of 700. From each of these groups, 70 voters would be chosen by lot to meet and, in a sort of town meeting, to select an alderman. The elected aldermen choose a mayor and city officials. Everybody serves until he is recalled, which happens when petitions are presented for calling new meetings...
Collier's promised that from all cities which applied for treatment it would select one, and "put all we've got into it." Except for advertising purposes, the founding of city government hardly has the appearance of being "publishing" in the ordinary sense. But Collier's may be leading the way to "the New Press." Perhaps the press, like the drug store, will become an omnivendor...