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Throughout these speeches of tribute and affection, President Eliot had been sitting very straight in his chair with a serene smile of happiness on his face. As he got up to make his speech of response, the audience again rose to its feet, and only after several minutes could he make himself heard above the clapping and applause. Then he stepped forward on the platform, and with his hands clasped before him, spoke in a quiet, restrained voice...
...Dear Friends:--The affectionate note of this tribute goes straight to my heart. It fills me with wonder and astonishment. But it touches me deeply. This day is going to be one of the happiest and dearest of my memories...
...speech had died away, R. P. Bullard '24, chorister of the Senior class, stepped to the platform, led the crowd first in a long and thunderous Harvard cheer with three "Eliots" on the end, and finally in the first stanza of "Fair Harvard", in which President Eliot, standing straight and tall in the center of the platform, joined his voice with those of the 2000 men before...
...other portraits of President Eliot including Mr. Sargent's full length portrait," he continued, "but none of them, it is fair to say, have caught the spirit of Mr. Eliot so successfully as Mr. Hopkinson's. The general effect of the picture is columnar. The President sits erect looking straight out of the picture with the characteristic frank, forcible and penetrating look in his eyes. The picture was painted three years ago, and so it represents President Eliot as an older man than the average graduate remembers him, but as we all know time has shot its bolts with comparatively...
...second team won three straight victories with no defeats in their bouts with the Brown and M. I. T. substitutes. Milton Krook '25, University champion in the 115-pound class, won the decision from Field of Brown, and in the next bout, A. J. Bornstein '25 defeated Cummings of M. I. T. T. W. Hoag '25, in the unlimited class, threw Coleman of M. I. T. in an exciting bout after seven minutes and five seconds of fast wrestling...