Charles W. Eliot

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Excerpt from Charles W. Eliot: President of Harvard University, (May 19, 1869 May 19, 1909) This implies more under American condi tions than it would mean in Germany. Amer ica had no traditions to give the term university a perfectly fixed and clear meaning, suggest ing the more or less complete fulfilment of duties recognized and undisputed in them selves. On the contrary, the whole university idea was still to be developed here, not, indeed, after some foreign, as, for instance, the German pattern, but with careful regard to the special needs of America. The American university is in the fullest sense of the word a new creation which is still in the making. For this very reason, however, the development of the new university idea became a determining factor in the whole educational progress of the coun try. As the creator of Harvard University President Eliot became at the same time the most in¿uential personality in the whole history of American education. The Ameri can people, more perhaps than any other nation in the world, are quickened in all strata of society by a supreme faith in the importance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.