Charles William Eliot 1834–1926, American educator and president of Harvard, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1853. In 1854 he was appointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard and in 1858 became assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry. In 1863, Eliot went abroad for two years’ study, returning to become professor of chemistry at the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology.… Under Eliot’s 40-year administration, Harvard developed from a small college with attached professional schools into a great modern university.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: The American Heritage®
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The Harvard Classics and Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction
In addition to the library of the 50 volumes of the Harvard Classics on Bartleby.com, Eliot’s Harvard editors chose for the Shelf of Fiction 30 authors from 7 national literatures to fill a 20-volume set of literature.
Five American Contributions to Civilization
From Matthews’s the Oxford Book of American Essays
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