1. Biographical information
   1. Born March 20, 1834 - died August 22, 1926
   2. Boston Massachusetts
   3. Graduated Harvard 1853
   4. Taught math and chemistry (1854 - 1863)
   5. Toured Europe (1863 - 1865)
   6. When he returned he became a professor at MIT
   7. President of Harvard (1869 - 35yrs old!!!)
2. Contributions
   1. Active in the National Education Association
      1. Became President in 1903
      2. Strongly influenced the 1892 report of the NEA "committee of ten"
         1. The committee was organized by the National Education Association (NEA) in 1892 to deal with the issue of uniform college entrance requirements.
         2. Chaired the committee
         3. The N.E.A. Committee of Ten
         4. The ghost that still haunts
         5. Major Contributions
            1. Earlier entry of some subjects.
            2. Teaching of subjects for both college-bound and terminal students.
   2. Help to found the College Entrance Examination Board - 1906
   3. Edited the Harvard Classics - 1910
   4. "The New Education, Its Organization"
3. Published works
   1. The Durable Satisfactions of Life (1910, repr. 1969)
   2. The Conflict between Individualism and Collectivism in a Democracy (1910, repr. 1967)
   3. Charles W. Eliot, the Man and His Beliefs (1926)
   4. A Late Harvest (1924)
   5. Four American Leaders
4. Picture
5. Havard
   1. President for 40 years
      1. 1869-1909
      2. Slow but significant change over time
         1. Historian Samuel Eliot Morison explains, Eliot simply “wore down and outlived all his opponents."
      3. Drew from European experience
      4. Looked at innovations at John Hopkins
   2. Initiative
      1. Increased enrollment standards
      2. Summer School 1871
      3. Began granting doctoral degrees 1872
      4. Radcliff College was established in 1894
         1. Chartered as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women [a.k.a. “Harvard Annex"] 1879
      5. Harvard became a leading center for graduate study and research 1890s
      6. Reformed Elective System 1885
         1. One of the most significant changes
            1. Eliot himself had concluded that the new system was “the most generally useful piece of work which this university has ever executed.”
         2. Known as the "Harvard experiment"
         3. Undergrads could choose wide variety of courses
         4. Allowed for scholars to teach undergrad and grad courses
         5. Earned international reputation
         6. Did away with
            1. Compulsory Chaple
            2. Greek requirement for entrance
            3. "Scale of Merit"
         7. The Elective System, 1885
   3. New Programs
      1. Graduate Department
         1. Graduate School 1890
         2. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was formally organized 1905
      2. School of Landscape Architecture 1901
      3. Medical School
         1. Introduced lab work and written examinations
         2. Made way for clinical instructions in Boston Hospitals
         3. Expanded program to four years
         4. Made bachelors a prerequisite
         5. Longwood Avenue quadrangle opened as the largest and most comprehensive medical-school complex in the U.S. 1906
      4. Harvard Forest 1907
      5. School of Business Administration 1908
      6. Developed three year law program
         1. Focused on more on actual cases than abstract principles
      7. Faculty of Arts and Sciences 1890
   4. Arnold Arboretum 1872
      1. Estate of James Arnold
   5. Apparently liked few sports
      1. Tried to abolish football
      2. Thought only rowing and tennis to be cleaning
      3. First football game was played in 1875 (Harvard v. Yale)
   6. Showers and hot water taps are installed in Harvard Yard dormitories 1894
   7. Most of Harvard Yard's gates and fences are erected 1901
6. Afterward
   1. Member of General Education Board
   2. Trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
   3. Trustee of the Rockefellar Foundation (1914 - 1917)
7. Resources
   1. http://www.president.harvard.edu/history/21_eliot.php