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PRESIDENT ELIOT'S TOUR

To Visit South and Southwest, Leaving Feb. 7 and Returning April 3.

NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED

President and Mrs. Eliot will leave Cambridge on February 7 for a two months' trip through the south and southwest. This is the second extensive trip President Eliot has made recently, in the interests of the University. During the month of April last year he made a prolonged tour of the local Harvard Clubs throughout the middle-west. In the course of this trip he visited the Harvard Clubs at Indianapolis, Urbana, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Cleveland. At Evanston, Illinois, he delivered a course of six lectures at Northwestern University on "University Administration," published in book form last autumn. Besides these lectures, President Eliot gave lectures in St. Louis, Indianapolis, and several other places.

On February 8 President Eliot will be present at a dinner given by the Harvard Club of Buffalo. On the following day he will go to Chicago, where he will address the Religious Education Association on "The Ethics of Industrialism" on the next evening. On the evening of February 11 he will attend a dinner of the Harvard Club of Chicago. On February 12 he will proceed to Minneapolis, and next day to Milwaukee and St. Paul. That evening he will be present at the annual dinner of the Harvard Club of Minnesota and on February 14 he will visit the University of Minnesota and Hamline University. He will return to Chicago on the morning of February 15 and leave that evening for Nashville, where he will be the guest of Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt University. He will spend the night of February 18 at Memphis, to break the journey from Nashville to Dallas, and will reach the latter place February 20.

He will leave on February 23, to visit the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, and will go on the following day to Austin where he will be the guest of President Mezes '90, Ph.D. '93, of the University of Texas. On February 26 he will be present in San Antonio at the dinner of the Association of Northern and Eastern College Men in the Southwest. He will spend the next three days at Houston, from where he will probably go to Galveston for one day.

In New Orleans, which he will reach on March 3, he will attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of Louisiana, visit the State University at Baton Rouge March 5, deliver the Founder's Day address at the Tulane University of Louisiana the afternoon of the following day, and be present at the annual Tulane dinner that evening. He will reach Montgomery on March 8. From March 9 to 16 he will journey from Birmingham to Charleston, stopping at the Universities of Alabama and Georgia. The next two days will be spent at Charleston, from where he will go on March 19 to Columbia, where the University of South Carolina is situated. On March 20 he will proceed to Asheville, stopping on the way for a few hours at Wofford College, at Spartanburg.

On March 23 he will leave Asheville for Greensboro, where that night will be spent. On the morning of the next day he will be at Guilford College, and will go from there to Durham that afternoon. While at Durham he will visit Trinity College at that place, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill not far away. On March 27 he will journey to Richmond, where he will remain over the twenty-ninth. The next day he will be in Washington, where he will attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of Washington. The following evening, at Baltimore, he will speak at the dinner of the Harvard Club of Maryland. He will be at Morristown on April 1 and 2. On the first day he will visit Morristown School and attend the dinner of the Harvard Club of New Jersey; on the second, he will address the Friday Evening Club of Morristown. He will return to Cambridge on April 3.

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