To his 90th birthday in the midst of honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, came Charles William Eliot, great 19th Century radical of Harvard.
What was his secret of long life, asked some. "Be good," was the substance of his answer.
A week before his birthday, Dr. Eliot went over to Brookline, fashionable Boston suburb. He paid a call on one Mrs. Guild. It was her 97th birthday. She was his sister. Mary was her name. Both Charles and Mary were children of Samuel Eliot, Congressman, Treasurer of Harvard, Mayor of Boston, who...
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