1909
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Compiled and Edited by Charles W. Eliot LL D in 1909, the Harvard Classics is a 51-volume Anthology of classic literature from throughout the history of western civilization. The set is sometimes called "Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf." Volume 8 contains 6 Continental (European) Dramas. Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca Polyeucte by Pierre Corneille Phèdre by Jean Baptiste Racine Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière Minna von Barnhelm by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing William Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
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Charles William Eliot
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Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.
