New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1926, Page 3

1, (S “ ~ . I T o PO M P DN L ) < W Brilllant Student NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, AUGUST 23, 1926. young Eliot entered Bos- PHILOSOPHER AND trated an carly ning the prized Franklin b holarship. Flve years later he was a freshman at Harvard and precocity y win- al for sports had earlier been shown EI]U[:ATI]R PASSE? a student in sclence. His interest y 8oy his zealous | (Continued from First Page) | the occasion of an especial demon- | of stration of estee mby the institution whose alumni had presented him | with §150,000 on his retirement. Chief Justice Taft was the principal speaker before @ distinguished gath- | ering in Cambridge while the obser- vation was general by Harvard clubs | th out the world. To the end he retained the char- acteristic which appealed most to those with whom he came in con- t—his unfailiny courtesy. Al- pr ca { po tenders on and his ninetieth birthday was made | one of the proudest ing himself participation in games on the Boston Common. At Harvard he entered the crew and victory in 1858 over all con- later years. The crew rowed for a prize in those days and the future the Charles river was recollections money esident was never reluctant in concede that the after years to sh which he his pocket had ssional. Upon his graduation he was in mathem er devot- exclusively to the lat- inted a tutor d studied che: had carried made him mistr, though usually intensely busy it was | '€F Subject. After a trip to his rule to meet everyone who came | to him on legitimate business, often | glving a caller more time tention than he expected. Dr. Eliot had been in dele health since he came here early in | the summer. His so: the R 181 al gy holding 65 to 1869. re he studied hods and pursued his work in e was made chemistry ssachusetts Institute of the chair off in a pro- ap- ics rope educational professor in the from samuel A. Ellot of Cambridge, who | A year before Dr. Thomas Hills 0 has his summe rresidence here, | had resigned as president of Har- was present at the e Mrs. Eliot [vard and a temporary st sor died in 1924 | neld office while the college sought Funeral Tucsday a permanent officer. Eliot had just declined to leave the Unlon church here on Tuesday | academic paths for lucrative com. ,Funeral services will be held in at noon, and in Appleton chapel at [ mercial posts and when Harvard university, Ca Wednesday. Int Mt. Auburn cemetery, Cambridge, Always Keen Minded Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 23 (P — | Dr. Charles W. Ellot, president | emeritus of Harvard, throughout his long life was an active parti- cipant in discusslons of & many- sided nature and his' views were eagerly sought on a multitude of subjects. Often his pronouncements | made him a target for bitter per- sonal attack. His attitudes were character- ized by firmnes 4 vigor but were by no mear astic as Was; mbridge, on in shown when after denouncing foot- | ball in 1906, “as a spectacls more brutalizing than prize fig’ fighting or bull fighting,” later saw Harvard a ised improvement under and p changed rules. Opposed Race Barricr I When Harvard was considering race distinction 9f candidates he declared, “I am opposed to every form of racial discrimination in the universities of our heteroge- | neous democracy.” In the cclebrated discussion “on religlon of the future” he said, “the fear of Hell has not proved tive to deter man from wrong | doing, and Heaven has never been ribed in terms very attractive | » man or woman.” a storm in labor circles when he asserted that the | is “a good type of Ameri- | and that “democracy | ¢ distrust the labor | frequent effort to re- |8 ficiency and output of individual workman.” His War Views { Durlng the war he maintained | hat hope of the world les in wplete cooperation betwe British empire and the states” and he termed the con- | t “the most terrible calamity that has ever befallen the human race.” Puritans found little favor with | They took the joy out of work and life,” he once wrote, and predicted “there woudl be no modification of the Volstead act in the wrong direction.” President Eliot stirred up a veritable hor- ‘s nest when, on the same sub- | ject, he declared, “Whoever fs familiar with the genealogies of the New England families that have come down from the 17th | century knows that the commonest | cause for the decline or extinction |8 of those families has been the abuses of intoxica their young men His stand on the immigration | question was summed up in a| speech when he reminded his | hearers, “We were all foreigners a | little while ago." Views on Long Tife Like many an other famous man who attained the years gracefully view on longevity often had been soiicited. xercise should be taken regu- a though always in modera- tion,” he advised. “One of the| chief objections 1 have to the com- | petitive games so popular nowa- days is that they tend to over-ex- 2 he player, taxing his mer- tem fully as much as, if more than, overwork would ing liquors by | M | always been more in |8 vor of games on an individualis- His own answer was a “sound constitution never impaired by any | serious disease or accident, a calm temperament expectant of good, the habit of taking daily exercise in open air, moderation in eating and a slight, and never steady or regular use of stimulants. He urged introduction into pub- lic schools of “fundamental ethical teaching which conveys all the spiritual powers without interfering with haracteristics of any church.” What Is an American? In an essay on “What Is an American?” he held that “blind obedience and implicit submission to the will of another do not com- mend themselve to characteristic Americans. The discipiine in which they b is voluniary coopera- tion in the orderly aml effective pursuit of common ends.” —e e FROM LYDIA E. PINKJAM TO HER GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER Have you ever heard a grand- mother say, “Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comp ? Why, my nother and 1 tovk (hat fifty years ago.” In some ‘amllies the fourth generation s learning ihe merit of this dependable miedisine. From the davs of ‘he polonaise to the days o¢ ths radie, mothers have glvén this famouns remedy to their duughters.. The happy schoolgirl of today, llke the deomure malden of the 1870’ kno! she can rely on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegertable Com- pound.—advt, ment will be at|=———— B. C. PORTER SONS FURNITURE his name was proposed to the Harvard poration he was unanimously |grand elected but it wa jections of the board of over: to the youth of the new pres had been overcome that that confirmed the appointment, Made Many Changes Sweeping ct at great development in the , ele tem which has since been a extensive abolition of eigh | tion boards and the subs e one for all classes of requiring the points for admission to the ol as for the A.B. de the of the exc vard examination board. to that time Harvard ted to limit the freedon ols in presentation cf candi or admission. He reorganized the dical courses for recitation method the written te for the ished compulsor mes wrote in 1871 president h: °d th university over like a flapjack. World-Wide Reputation Among educators Dr. Eliot for 40| the B vears president of Harvard un and presic t emer! anges in the adminis- | brought forward in the past university followed | —writing and speakin, They included the |that he w by other colleges, different examina- the | public office. s, in Marc '1‘; 3 ‘,’,\\ of power tow ;I ‘rn:‘v‘! kz.\)r”-:\wnyr ’;‘oc"; a dignified figure with well-poised Nerotel was unanimous in ap- en were burn: 1| e ave face, wit igrea s choloe ax thet of a The prevailing Christian | oo 5" ace;, with' & Slow number hout Latin or Greek; recog- system of on board ividual and of the secondary uted lecture e Jaw school and did r things that Dr. Oliver whole | a corresponding member of until his cor- | death, a world-wide reputation as a | P} ophical Societ the university over ‘like a Religion of Future | nigh 1aeats. o : B n of their profession. ts H jack” In 1909, Dr. Eliot's pronounce-| He attempted & fow years ago an not until the ob- |but his prominence extended so far #aw Reforms Adopted ment on “the religion of the future” |analysis of literature to plck the best seers | beyond educationa) circles t C: ed widespread discussion. “The |few books, the reading of which id Dr. Eliot, “has |would make a man “cultured.” The proved effective to defer man [plan and the result again made him wrong-doing. and heaven has |a storm cemter of critheism, ugh- [never yet been descrited in terms| ¢ 77 Dr. Ellot took a trip around elf | very attractive to the average man | tha world * to study.” In Ceylon, in ‘T”m or \\mw\‘vm_ Bo e indeed. un- | December, (1911, he was operated i : on for appendicitis, but, notwith- t of | modern man would hardly | standing his advanced ‘age, h:mr':- St [feel any appreciable foss of motive | gaineq his ‘full vigor. ‘He Wik ik Forty ¥ resign- 1 his p istance, saw many of the reforms which had introduced so well established his ident | was often spoken of here a body | abroad as “America's first citizen.” He was identified with practically | every economic or social question ) years so fearlessly s the center of as many | Ward Peace” an ctive | storms of controversy and violent| dopt- | personal attacks as though he held John Gilley tH 2 countrymen t offered him the wdor to the Court presidency . and preserved as though he bad spent his year in the atmos- phere as fthe supreme ocourt. President Roosevelt, who was once ked of as his possible successor stu- ive Am Eliot decl red to spend the A serenity that on- Olymyp - [conceptions of heaven and hell have rdly any more influence with edu- cated people in these days than 1d Hades have. The mod- n immediate mo- | 13 an i | addresses in behalf of the Allies. He { maintained that “the hope of ti world lies in complete co-ope ! between the British Empire and the sei- gree, B ; . ! 1 responsibility could ern mind craves ;lru”l e gv‘ ‘z\hvn ) 1 (';.‘1 . ng, good for today on Harvard, once said: “He is the g s e English-speak- | 1 % only man in the world 2 |ing people.” Six months after Ger- |1 ea 1 2 wor! 1 envy. I Controversy With Labor H a feDow of the American any invaded Belgium in an articl of arts and sciences, an of- hadle ds to Peace,” he de- was that | ficer he Legion of Honor, and a n of | Plored th of what he termed who | member of tha French institute, and titutiona the conflict. to avert was decorated by the emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising rican hero.” d Dr. Eliot TR el t was first married fn 1869 to sub- [t0o Ellen Derby Peabody. His sec- jch he did, |ond wife was Grace Msilen Hopkins, to whom he was married in 1877. Defended League of Natiofs and | Despite his more and paign, he vigorously League of Nations was individualism ms of o Te on to being presider rvard, Dr. Eliot until 1 DENTIST “Our union’s to restrict the Academy of Moral Sciences of the In ut of the individ He likew bling block for de lism. but w conf it was con dua Dr. A. B. Johmson, D.D.S. wracs 10| Dr. T. R. 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