Evening star., 1924-03-20
HARVARD AND NATION
HONOR DR.. ELIOT, so
Great Assembly of Alumni, Stu
dents aid Citizens Pays Tribute
to Noted Educator.

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March Co.
Harvard alumni from all parts OF the
country and representative Ameri-
cans not of Harvard tradition assem-
bled here today to celebrate the nine
tieth birthday of DR.. Charles William
Eliot. president emeritus of Harvard
University.
Jerome D. Greene Of New York, as
chief marshal, led the procession or
university and alumni officials guests
and delegates escorting DR. Eliot 10
the platform of Sanders Theater.
Taft VIII Speak.
There the program of speeches was
60 include an address by Chief Jus
tice Taft of the United States Su-
preme Court Other greetings were
TO be presented by President A. Law
renee Lowell, on behalf of the corpo-
ration; George Wigglesworth. on be-
half of the board of overseers; Dean
L. B. E. Briggs, on behalf Of the fac
ulties of the university; Charles 7:
Greve, on behalf OF the Associated
Harvard Clubs; Charlton MacVeagh,
senior class orator, for the under
graduates; President James r. Angel
of Yale. on behalf of other colleges,
universities and learned societies. and
Gov. Cox, for the commonw ealth or
Massachusetts.
At the conclusion Of the Sanders
Theater program the president emeri- :
tus was to receive the greetings or
the assembled students of the uni:
versity in Harvard yard, in front OF
University Hall.
Committee of Citizens.
The alumni association was repre-
scented at the exercises by it's presi-
dent, Associate Justice Edward Terry
Sanford, 'S5, of the United States
Supreme Court. Serving under Presi-
dent Coolidge as vice chairman of
the honorary committee of citizens
are Chief Justice Taft, Gov. Cox and
Premier w. l.. Mackenzie King OF
Canada. Arrangements for the birth
day celebration We're made by COM
mittee composed as follows:
Jerome D. Greene of New York,
chairman and chief marshal: Thomas
w. Slocum, Edwin F. Gary, Edgar H.
Chauncy stillman. all of New York !:
Odin Roberts and w. Cameron Forbes
Of Boston, and j. w. D. Seymour OF
Cambridge, secretary. All are Har-
ward graduates, as are the thirty
eight members of the honorary COM
mittee, among these latter being
United States Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge, II; Bishop William Lawrence
of the Episcopal diocese of Massa-
chusetts, II: Thomas w. Lamont, 80,
and Eliot Wadsworth, '9S, assistant
secretary of the Treasury.
, On all sides there was recognition
of the great part which President
Eliot has played in the development
of modern education. While he was
president of Harvard he saw the rise
of new PHILOSOPHERS, new means Of
communication, new religious align
ments and all the wonders of modern
science. Due largely to his initiative,
there was a complete Transformation
in educational methods.
Gave Aid to Science.
He inaugurated at Harvard the
elective system whereby the student
is given broad field from which to
select subjects for study. Trained as
a mathematician and chemist and
teaching those subjects at Harvard
I Technology before he became presf-
dent of the university, he saw the i'm
oortance of science in the educational
scheme. Among the first fields of
were those of history, government,
economics and the sciences.
Developed Graduate Schools.
and recognized the relation of busi-
ness to education in his approval of
the esta blshment in 1908 of the Har-
ward graduate school of business ad-
ministration. He was particularly in
terested in increasing the value OF the
department of fine arts.
He has always looked upon religion
. as an integral part of the national
well-being, and his career has viz
tualIy conceded with the growth OF
the Unitarian Church.
The completion Of nine decades
since his birth found DR.. Eliot in ex-
eellent health. In recent years he has
given up the bicycle riding about the
Cambridge streets, which for a long
period was his favorite form Of rec