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Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history. He was a cousin of the Nobel Prize-winning poet T.S. Eliot

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The best way to secure future happiness is to be as happy as is rightfully possible to-day.

Happiness, Happy, Joy, Laughter, Rightfully, Way

I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

Summer, School, Years, Formal, Year

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Children, Power, Fields, Justly, Child, Range

When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.

Enterprise, Heart, Progress, Road, Time, Work

The most satisfactory thing in all this earthly life is to be able to serve our fellow-beings-first, those who are bound to us by ties of love, then the wider circle of fellow-townsmen, fellow-countrymen, or fellow-men. To be of service is a solid foundation for contentment in this world.

Helping Others, Men, Satisfactory, Thing, Ties, Wider

The Library is the heart of the University.

Heart, Library, University

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Action, Inspirational, Realms, Right, Truth, Utility

Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.

Constant, Friendship, Happiness, Patient, Quietest, Teacher

Liberal education develops a sense of right, duty and honor; and more and more in the modern world, large business rests on rectitude and honor as well as on good judgment.

Education, Honor, World, Develops, Judgment

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

Philosophy, Real, Men, Thoughts, Values

The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

Education, School, Desire, Learning, Knowledge

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

Choking, Expansion, Spiritual, Think, Thinking, Useful

In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.

Progress, Public Opinion, World, Social, Intelligence, Modern

Let us remember that the times which future generations delight to recall are not those of ease and prosperity, but those of adversity bravely borne.

Adversity, History, Generations, Bravely, Ease

Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

And Love, Friends, Life, Lonely, Messengers, Scattered

There is no mystery about successful business. . . . Exclusive attention to the person who is speaking to you.

Leadership, Successful, Attention, Speaking, Person

I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.

Acquisition, Education, Gentleman, Mother, Refined, Use