Eliot

On March 20, Charles William Eliot will be 90 years old. Church,

State and the whole world of scholarship and pedagogy will conjointly greet him. Official greeting is listed for Sanders Theatre, Cambridge, at 3.30 P. M., through the mouths of: President A. Lawrence Lowell on behalf of the Harvard Corporation, George Wigglesworth on behalf of the Board of Overseers, Dean L. B. R. Briggs on behalf of the Faculty, Charles T. Greve on behalf of the Associated Harvard Clubs, Charlton MacVeagh (Senior Class Orator) on behalf of the undergraduates, President James R. Angell of Yale University, on behalf of other colleges, universities and learned societies, Governor Cox on behalf of Massachusetts, Mr. Chief Justice Taft on behalf of the public.

Born of the best New England ancestry, Dr. Eliot was graduated from Harvard in 1853. Until '58 he was a tutor in mathematics, student in Chemistry, Assistant Professor. He went to Europe to study. Four years he served the new M. I. T. as Chemistry Professor, when suddenly, at the astounding age of 35, an avowed apostle of the 'new education,' he was called to the Presidency of Harvard University. He was President 40 years, retiring in 1909 in favor of Dr. Lowell.

Dr. Eliot is estimated by other university Presidents as follows:

Edwin A. Alderman, of the University of Virginia: "He is the greatest educational statesman of this generation."

Frank J. Goodnow, of Johns Hopkins: "I feel that there is no one in our American life to whom we owe more."

John H. T. Main, of Ginnell: "He has made it clear that a college student has the right of freedom in choosing subjects suited to his individual tastes and interests. This principle, iconoclastic when he announced it, is now universally recognized as valid, and is accepted, with modifications of one sort or another, in all higher educational institutions."

Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia: "While Mr. Eliot has never been chosen to represent America in form, he has long represented it in fact."