"First Citizen"
As it must to all men, Death came last week to Charles William Eliot, 40 years president and 17 years president emeritus of Harvard University. It found him at his summer home in Northeast Harbor, Me., ready to go peacefully after 92 years of vigorous living.
Harvard. "He found it a college; he left it a university." Europe, in which he spent two of the early and one of the later '60s as a young mathematics and chemistry researcher, conceived the U. S. as an intellectual wilderness with but one stockaded...
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