Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-16


I'M the most tranquil acres
rise Of green turf on which stands small modest
wing and eabyeow Jasmine Wild and dafodn below and an
ugly slant Of blue red ana brown slate aboyea dwelling devoid dis
tnction and little more than a
This the abode which Theodore tventysh president
of the United States aspe and his ambition has been sounded through
out the press from Washington James crecdmon the New York
residence of Charles William Eliot the venerable and tlust
Gus president Harvard university whose successor President Roosevelt de-
Mr. Roosevelt IT a profession" said Dr.
Eliot when the matter visitor And vet this
life employment one surrounded by ladies and gentlemen and
great reward to be able the university spread through
the colleges academies and schools the national fe-for
university 'front.' a whole"
And you have been position for which the president Of t
United states would exchange the renown and power Of his great office
at N sticking job"
estiye answer - -
DR. Eliot His Than
20 years have not robbed him Of the noble yHe bearing that American
scholars his earlier him
old the figure and carriage Of feardsman Longow Emerson
Lowell Holmes ana other friends broke down under ne
strain Of work but there youth the 5000 Harvard stu
AS he STROBE yesterday under the Harvard his shoulders
squared his head thrown back and his taking ah pleasant
buildings crowded with
the small boy feeding squirrels the aden sky seemed hard to realize
that that erness and rene consistent with three years and
tel" AN ABODE MORE ENvlAB1E THAN WHITE HOUSE
him later the little brick house where President Roosevelt hopes
a and which dignity and in
sence blended The head high and covered with crisp gray hair
The forehead has upward reach but well rounded and
practical with fulness above the Between the bueay ut
The mouth and the lip is straight and
The cheekboncs the awln and hand
d oe. on enher sas the fasS,n Of 90 Years ago The ewes are
kindly intelligence confidence
wrinkles Fuckers around them impression of gent
something suggestive Of Thackey Of Emerson of Max Null
yet has much that all three lacked It's
practical
qualities Of the bchead and Jaw balanced by the
brow, reyerentIal Ophad the just mouth
Dr. weIu suit Of rough brown, He
collar and dark bOten aat in which black pearl was
white whose
witchngs otherwise disciplined
the small his dwelling
ofro1p
S % pt Wen might an Am ean take careful note Of this leader
leaders of all that best and nobest in the
character and than once he has been proclaimed the fore
most living Of continent
DESCENDED FROM MINISTER'S AND sHoPKEEpERs
Dr. o changed the history Of Eng
land generations and about Boston
mostly shopkpe one his predecessors
public for the of the American at
Bunker Hin his orbcaFs preaehn religion or engaged in petty com
grandfathers men Of moderate wealth.
retail store in Boston the other
East India again Or Elots
father The who destined be
Harvard university reared an atmosphere Of learning and
From 1854 to 1858 he was tutor in mathematics
assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry
Harvard In 1868 he went to Europe
chemistry and investigating European
1865 1869 when he became president of a
b Tr t Thno,oey when the Rev THOMAS Hill resigned the
presidency Prof Eliot was chosen succeed him. That
Since then Harvard university
spred with broad grown
has been emancatd from sectaran control has been democrat by
the development system elective studies based on the Idea that hui
make choice Of studies
the nation the influence been
In and school,
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES QUAINT DESCRIPTION
Eliot assumed the presidency Of Harvard
described in OF Wendell Iol quaint letters;
president turned the whole university IKE flap
| S a like Eliot with
ganng calm dgnhd taking the rib
OF the horses mouths putting
capers that with
everywhere public
dinner on naturally he had been
the Autocrat Of the Breakfast Table
master Of fashions
cannot help being the medical
young in the calme
everything topsy-turyy.
to
faculty managing ts affairs do
II In
path years four months It Is
change all our Of carrying SCHOOL, 1t
nary nd should how II happens