The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1926-08-28
Editorial Comment
President Eliot
New York Iimes)


Time takes that stately and beloved presence. vel.
Tor all his fullness Of years. his spirit and his in.
sellect were so strong his interest in all things hu-
man SO ardent, that it hard to think Of him MS
oid. save in wisdom. In him the nation loses an
accumuIatcr OF its mponderabe and nobler wealth.
MS singular bravery of opinion raised up hosts of
opponents but the bitterness of those
has been assuaged It was his good fortune. living.
to see himself regarded as princeps rel publicae.
the foremost American citizen. Public office he re-
FUSED. His was the higher office of stimulating in
teiilgence. OF broadening tolerance, of advancing
not merely elementary, high school and college edu-
cation. but the education Of the individual and ma
tonal conscience to sounder convention Of do
mestic and international duties.
1t some Of his experiments at Harvard were nm
successful in his forty years there he was not only
the FOUNDER OF the new Harvard university but the
insprer and leader of that movement of college and
University reorganization and growth still going on
proMgiousy. 10 take but single instance the as
sociation OF American law schools, comprising. we
oeeve. fifty or more, may be said to spring directly
from Mr.. Eliots appointment of CHRISTOPHER C..
Langdell as Dane professor Of law in 1870. The
raised standard of best professional schools in
credlbly low within living memory, is due to him.
ne gave the impulse and set the example, AS the
chancellor Of Vanderbilt university said in 1924.
~ ""o oSSa all HoHOFaFy member or every college
faculty, and his counsel has helped to solve all ed
ucational problems"
PRESIDENT Goodnow of Johns Hopkins gave what
Is perhaps the most authoritative evidence Of Mr..
Eiots fruitful influence in education:
When, nearly fifty years ago, its first presi-
aent Dr. Gilman. entrusted BY those an
pointed by Johns Hopkins to make use Of the
great gifts he had made to higher education
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20 You that they and he turned for advice. For
the counsel which you then gave we shall ever
DC grateful For such service as this institu-
ton has been able to render to the cause Of
american education we recognize thar we are in
large measure indebted to you
Splendid and far-reaching as had been his achieve
ment At Cambridge. Mr.. Eliot 1t IS, began to rest
Dy means OF continuing labors. Freed from rou.
tine, ne became public man without place. -
great public character" Lowell called President
quincy. On social educational, economic, humani-
taran national and international questions be threw
the light Of his crystalline thought. and expression.
Accepted o. contested, his opinions always stirred
ana often persuaded. These last seventeen years
have besn not the least memorable Of life benef.
lcently used and lived with constant sest He was
simple and benign. OF his mind and language one
tnanks . OF his commemorative inscriptions that
have the relisf Of the choicest Syrscusan coin Many
VIII remember, Harvard men Of the classes amon1
which the quinquennial star n death Il falling fast
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