Charles William Eliot (1834–1926) was an American academic and educationalist. A leader in public affairs, he was the president of Harvard University for 40 years and the editor of the Harvard Classics.
Born in Boston, Eliot became a mathematician and chemist. As president of Harvard College (1869–1909,) he carried out radical reforms of its faculties and teaching methods and turned it into a full university. He had the most extended term as president in the university’s history. Under his leadership, Harvard doubled in strength, and the old undergraduate curriculum was abandoned for an optional system of studies.
Eliot also organized a graduate school of arts and sciences and established Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He published two manuals of chemistry and several books on education and was editor of the 50-volume Harvard Classics (1909–10.)
Eliot’s works include Educational Reform: Essays and Addresses 1869–97 (1898) and University Administration (1908.)
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You know that it is only through work that you can achieve anything, either in college or in the world.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Work
Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Education
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Doubt, Beliefs, Uncertainty, Business
The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible today.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Time Management, Value of Time
The efficient man is the man who thinks for himself.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Confidence, Self-reliance
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
—Charles William Eliot
Topics: Books, Friendship, Book
Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.
—Charles William Eliot
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