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Charles William Eliot · Francis Bacon · Jean Calvin · William, 1422?-1492? Caxton
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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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