biography
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Eliot, Charles William
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| lived:
| (1834–1926)
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| biography:
| Educationist, born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Trained as a mathematician and chemist at Harvard and in Europe, he taught at Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before assuming the presidency of Harvard (1869–1909). Having signalled his progressivism in The New Education (1869), he presided over a period of intense growth and reform at Harvard, which included the admission of women (1879) and the establishment of Radcliffe College (1894). His landmark report (1892) on secondary schools led to the standardization of public school curricula and the formation in 1901 of the Board of College Entrance Examinations. In later years he became widely known as the editor of the Harvard Classics, a set of significant books that were said to provide a complete education in ‘a five-foot shelf’. |
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