Charles William Eliot
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1834 – 1926
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Who was Charles William Eliot?
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 until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history. He was a cousin of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot.
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- Born
- Mar 20, 1834
Boston - Also known as
- Charles W. Eliot
- Charles Eliot
- Parents
- Children
- Education
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Boston
- Died
- Aug 22, 1926
Northeast Harbor
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on July 23, 2013
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