71819 THE HAPPY LIFE. ΑΝ ADDRESS BY CHARLES W. ELIOT, LL.D., PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY DELIVERED AT THE WOMAN'S COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, ON COLLEGE DAY NOVEMBER 7TH, 1895, THE INDEPENDENT, NEW YORK INTRODUCTION. THE WOMAN'S COLLEGE, of Baltimore, celebrates the first Thursday of November as an anniversary occasion which it entitles "College Day." The annual meeting of the Board of Trustees is held at that time, and the visitors, officially designated by the various conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, meet and organize for the purpose of acquainting themselves with its affairs and reporting them to the next session of their respective conferences. Receptions are held, in which the Trustees and friends of the College, the visitors and the students may meet each other; and on the evening of College Day there is an assembly of the students to listen to an address upon some appropriate topic. The anniversary this year came upon November 7th, and the speaker was President Charles W. Eliot, LL.D., of Harvard University, who delivered the following address upon "The Happy Life." |