Eliot,Charles William

Eliot,Charles William
El·i·ot (ĕlʹē-ət), Charles William. 1834-1926.
American educator and editor who was president of Harvard University (1869-1909) and edited the Harvard Classics (1909-1910), a 50-volume selection of world literature.

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