Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-11-05
THE RESIGNATION.
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tablished procedure, the election will
be made by tic corporation and their
choice will be communicated to the
beard of ovcrseers for their consent. In
view of the heavy responsibility at
tached to the choice of Il successor to
President Eliot, the action of the gov
erning boards will be deliberate and
the time Of Its occurrence cannot now
Je Pre- iirtt Il.
Fr> .t.lcE. Eliot came in from his
hCiN" ia cambridge during the fore
noon anal reached the business cftice
Of the university just after the meet
ing Of t,sc board of overscers had dis
solved. He refused to comment upon
his acticn and referred all inquiries
to the officers of the university and
TO the board of oVerSeerS. 1t has been
known among those in close toucll
with the university that it had been
President Eliot's desire for some time
to relinQuish the duties Of his office
and to retire to private life In fact
the matter has been so thoroughly dis
ruSsed among some of the more prom
inent alumni that the matter OF a sue
Cessor has already been 4 subject OF
discussion ana among them Those ,nt!i-
toned for President Eliot's successor
is Prof. Lawrence Lowell, who occu-
pies the chair Of science OF government
and Il brother of PerciVal Lowell, the
astronomer.
Prcf. Ci?as. p. Parker of the depart
ment of ancient language At Harvard, in
commenting on the resignation of Fresi-
dent Eliot said: "I regret President
F.liot's resignation more than I can say.
7 believe in his policy and I have enjoyed
working under him during the 81 years
that I have been member of the 1acuty
His work will be sure to live ana make
itself felt in the coming century. for he
has made Il great university out of q
college. His influence on education in the
whole country has been that of states
man. He has had n deeper influence on
the country that if he had been United
States senator active in what is called
political life"
Dean LeBaron IT. Briggs of Harvard
made the followin" statement: There is
no member of the faculty who does not
feel that President Eliot's is the greatest
personality that he has ever been thrown
against although many do not agree with
his ideas. lie is most unselfish. He has
not worked. for himself nor alone for
Harvard. for he has placed the nation
far above the college. We do net I<row
where we stand and We don't know what
We arc gong to do. His has been an
admirable leadership and he will be great
ly missed. The early opposition to his
policies has passed away and his resig-
nation is greatly regretted"
Prof. Hugo Munsterberg, the we'll
known psychologist and member of the
Harvard faculty, said "The Americans
are hardly aware what PRESIDENT: Eliot's
| name has meant to Europe. Certainly
the European masses know more about
President Roosevelt, but the leaders OF
European thought have considered Pres
ident Eliot for years as the greatest and
most important American They fell
that his wisdom, his strength and ludg-
ment were the deciding force for real
progress in the intellectual life of this
county. The feeling of an irreparable
loss which has ovcrhung us all today
will spread over the whole world OF
Western civilization'