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Show WHEN I WAS ; TWENTY-ONE if BY JOSEPH KAYE j At 21 Charles W. Eliot, Famous Educator, Was Already a Teacher. (I A T TWENTY-ONE I was a tu-Lx tu-Lx tor at Harvard. i "In by freshman year I became j much interested in chemistry, and from the beginning of my sophomore year I had the privilege of working In the small chemical laboratory which Josiah Parsons Cooke, instructor instruc-tor in chemistry, was allowed to fit j up at his own expense in the base- ! ment of University hall. "During the last three years of my ' college course I did much work in that little laboratory every week, in addition addi-tion to attending all the recitations required of my class, and doing well in nil the studies . of the regular course. To the best of my knowledge I was the only undergraduate at Har- t vard college who had the privilege of j studying a science by the laboratory method. "At that time also I joined a new I boat club which was mainly recruited i among professional students and was intended to furnish pleasure and ex- ercise to its members, but not to pre-i pre-i pare men for the races. As I proved to the club to he a strong and endur-i endur-i ing oarsman, I was invited to join the j Harvard crew because it had proved j impossible to find six undergraduates ! competent and willing to row. Charles W. Eliot." Doctor Eliot was one of the most famous educators of the country. He died a short time ago at the age of ninety-two. He was active in his work almost to the time of his death. 1 (iS by McClure Ne wspaper Sjnitlcate.) i o lij b ilcCIur Nawspaucr S; r.aieata.) |