Show I PRESIDENT ELiOT LEAVES HARVARD Has Been at Head of Institution for Nearly Forty Years Y cars Cambridge Mass Nov ov 4 The The resignation of Charles W W. Kliot president presIdent pres pros ident ideaL oC or lanar Harvard university since 1 S G a was sas accepted at a H. special meet meet- ing of the time board of or overseers o hold in Boston Bostom tOlla today The Ilme resignation which is to tu take Cf effect ct not miot later than thana May a 10 VJ 1909 1 was presented to the tilO board at Its Is regular meeting Oct Oct 26 and after two O weeks weeks' conference the board has decided that a proper re- re garth gurd gurd for or the time wi wishes of or the Limo president I requires ri them to relieve him of or the I ar arduous duties of his ole The Tho necessity of oC electing a successor Ol to Pre President Eliot Elot conius with wih great groat II suddenness to the time governing boards J R K Briggs de dean n of the time university uni I when Interviewed toda today seemed greal greatly overcome and 1 said l I I VO JH Just heard herd the news about I five minutes n ago o and I har hardly b know what to say about It I. I I hard hardly 1 know what we shall lal do cIo without President Elot Eliot Mr 11 Eliot Elot wi was wn elected president In iii 1869 an and during tho tIu fort forty years ears of Ills his administration has han acquired tho the reputation or of being the time fairest educator educator edu edu- cator cater in the country countr He lIe le has been responsible le for Cor or educational Innovations tons such as the tho elective system higher college requirements and the Introduction of a graduate school of business administration He has imas been an a advocate of or the tho Carey system which Intro Introduced into tho timo law school by h Dean Langdell has luau replaced the use of or text bool books s and put the law school head and shoulders above nil all ul rivals Quarters for fOI Medics The Te medical school has ha been bee 1 In Installed Jim Jim- stalled staled in new quarters costing upward of and giving It I the most mot completely equipped medical plant of of orl any Institution in iii the time world President l Eliot Jot tonight at his 11 home mc upon the time college grounds at Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge declined to add anything anything fur- fur I I timer as to lO his nis reasons for tor resigning as president resident of Harvard university other than what was contained in fn his l letter of resignation It I Is l known definitely that there hero was no friction frIcton between President Eliot and the six Ix men composing com corn posing the Harvard corporation For or Forthe orthe the time past palt month they tile have been bean pleading plead plead- lug ing with whim wih him hini not nut tm ty to r rd nn Ho lie In- In im l that 10 40 0 y at attl t ChT rh d g Qt Harvard u university ty 2 is enough for lor an any anyone I one OIlS mun man antI and nl that he ho needed a fc test tet t I from the cares ouren of oL or executive a The Tho 1 Harvard university corporation co line has over six sEx months month In which to select selecta a successor sOI to President l Eliot Jot The corporations corporation's choice cholN Is subject to the time formal approval of tho board boar of or ov overseers overseers over over- r- r foers seers representing time thC graduate body I of the university Tho The salary is 10 a year 10 1 |