CHARLES W. ELIOT - AUTOGRAPH 03/13/1920 - HFSID 72492
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CHARLES W. ELIOT
Harvard's youngest president signs and dates this page in 1920!
Signature: "Charles W. Eliot/13 March '20", 5½x3¼ paper. CHARLES
WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-1926) became Harvard University's youngest (at
age 35) and longest tenured (40 years) President in 1869. Serving
until 1909, Eliot transformed Harvard into one of the nation's most
prestigious schools, expanding its facilities, structuring the University
into schools and departments, offering an elective system, building athletic
facilities (although he personally opposed football) and other innovations.
Eliot, who had studied higher education methods in Europe, returned to the U.S.
and took a position at M.I.T. in 1865. Four years later, his ideas for
reforming higher education were published in "The Atlantic Monthly", leading
to his appointment at Harvard, where he had taught early in his career. Eliot
also edited Harvard Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five
Foot Shelf, a 51-volume anthology of works selected by Eliot in 1909. Edges
are rough-torn not cut. Lightly soiled. Paper residue on verso (previous
mounting) - light show through. Otherwise, fine condition.
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