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Charles William Eliot

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Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was president of Harvard University from 1869 to 1909, the longest term of any Harvard president. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he transformed Harvard from a respected provincial college into America's preeminent research university. Theodore Roosevelt called him "the only man in the world I envy."

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The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales

William Patten · Charles William Eliot +1

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin · Charles William Eliot

The Oxford Book of American Essays

Brander Matthews · W. C. (William Crary) Brownell +26

Prefaces and prologues to famous books

Charles William Eliot · Francis Bacon +17

Essays on education and kindred subjects

Herbert Spencer · Charles William Eliot

Four American Leaders

Charles William Eliot

The Social Emergency: Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals

William Trufant Foster · Charles William Eliot