Eliot

Eliot, CHARLES WILLIAM, president of Harvard University, was born in Boston in 1834, and was educated at Harvard, where he filled some minor posts, and became president in 1869. Under his rule the university has been doubled in strength, and the old prescribed curriculum has been finally abandoned for an optional system of studies. President Eliot is LL.D. of Williams, Princeton, and Yale, and has published, with Professor Storer, two manuals of chemistry.