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Up for sale a RARE! "Harvard President" Charles W. Eliot Hand Clipped Signature. This item is
certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate
of Authenticity.
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Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 –
August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in
1869. A member of the prominent Eliot family of Boston, he
transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the
university's history. Charles Eliot was a scion of the wealthy Eliot family of Boston. He was the son of politician Samuel
Atkins Eliot and his wife Mary (née
Lyman) and was the grandson of banker Samuel Eliot. He was one of five
siblings and the only boy. Eliot graduated from Boston Latin
School in
1849 and He was later made an honorary member of he had high expectations and obvious scientific talents, the first
fifteen years of Eliot's career were less than auspicious. He was appointed
Tutor in Mathematics at Harvard in the fall of 1854, and studied chemistry
with Josiah P. Cooke. In 1858, he was promoted to Assistant Professor
of Mathematics and Chemistry. He taught competently, wrote some technical
pieces on chemical impurities in industrial metals,
and busied himself with schemes for the reform of School. But his real goal, appointment to the Rumford
Professorship of Chemistry, eluded him. This was a particularly bitter blow
because of a change in his family's economic circumstances—the financial
failure of his father, Samuel
Atkins Eliot,
in the Panic of 1857. Eliot had to face the
fact that "he had nothing to look to but his teacher's salary and a legacy
left to him by his grandfather Lyman." After a bitter struggle over the
Rumford chair, Eliot left Harvard in 1863. His friends assumed that he would
"be obliged to cut chemistry and go into business in order to earn a
livelihood for his family." But instead, he used his grandfather's legacy and a small
borrowed sum to spend the next two years studying the educational systems of
the Old World in Europe.
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