AMERICA'S AMBASSADOR.
■DR. ELIOT DECLINES THE POSITION. Received April 4, 4.30 p.m. NEW YORK, April 3. Dr. Eliot, ex-President of Harvard University, who was nominated to succeed Mr Whitelaw Reid as American Ambassador to Great Britain, has declined on the grounds of age.
Dr. 6harles William Eliot, who la9t year retired from the Presidency of Harvard, after 40 years of office, As 76 years old; he has been a strenuous worker all his life, and his mental and physical activities are still those of a man in the prime of life. He took charge of affairs at Harvard 41 years ago, being but 35, and he immediately set about the re-organisation of the University. Puring his term of office the number of students multiplied by five, and the teaching] force increased from 58 to 580. He was during the whole time the real head of America's education system. His i influence wrought vast changes, not only in the higher institutions" of learning, but down to the infant departments. He was one of the crew that won the first boat race that was ruwed between Harvard and Yale, and he is just of fond of "mixing it" now as (he was then. At the age of 76 he loves to run to a fire, and he takes a bicycle ride every pleasant morning, |and enjoys it. He has been called "The first living citizen of America," and has not attained the position he occupies in public esteem by success in his profession. He has devoted his mind to great civic problems as well, and has taken a part in many great public movements —the race question, the movement for international arbitration, the relations of Capital and Labour, and various others. He was one of the committee of 50 that some few years ago investigated the liquor question and published the results in a series of books. He is an officer of the French Legion of Honour and .Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3155, 5 April 1909, Page 5
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336AMERICA'S AMBASSADOR. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3155, 5 April 1909, Page 5
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