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Charles William Eliot

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March 20, 1834 in Boston, Massachusetts, The United States

died

August 25, 1926

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History, Nonfiction

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Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.

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Average rating: 3.94 · 399 ratings · 54 reviews · 163 distinct works

	Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude (Harvard Classics, #1) by Charles William Eliot (Editor), John Woolman, William Penn 3.63 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1909 — 15 editions	My rating:
	Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius 4.09 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1909 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nine Greek Dramas (Harvard Classics, #8) by Charles William Eliot (Editor), Aeschylus, Aristophanes 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2004 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Harvard Classics 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1907 — 10 editions	My rating:
	English Poetry from Tennyson to Whitman: Part 42 Harvard Classics 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	English Poetry from Chaucer to Gray: Part 40 Harvard Classics 4.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Prince; Utopia; Ninety-Five Theses: Address to the German Nobility Concerning Christian Liberty: Part 36 Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (Editor), Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas More 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1910 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Elizabethan Drama Part 1: Marlowe to Shakespeare: Part 46 Harvard Classics 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	English Philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Part 37 Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (Editor), George Berkeley, David Hume 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1910 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Sacred Writings: Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Mohammedan: Part 2, Volume 45 Harvard Classics 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions	My rating:

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“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
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