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	Charles Eliot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Charles Eliot (November 1, 1859 – March 25, 1897) was a leading American landscape architect, whose career was cut short by untimely death at age 38 from spinal meningitis.
		Eliot was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts where his father Charles William Eliot was president of Harvard University, and in 1901, after his son's death, author of a biography of his son's life.
		After Eliot's death, the two surving Olmsted step-sons reconstituted their partnership as the Olmsted Brothers, which continued for another 50 years as one of the most famous landscape design firms in the United States, and went on to design thousands of parks, gardens, and landscapes in the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_Eliot (517 words)

	Charles William Eliot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eliot was an administrative reformer, reorganizing the university's faculty into schools and departments and replacing recitations with lectures and seminars.
		Eliot was an articulate opponent of American imperialism and an advocate for racial equality.
		Eliot's son, Charles Eliot (November 1, 1859-March 25, 1897) was an important landscape architect, responsible for the public park system in Boston.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Charles_William_Eliot (2454 words)

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		Eliot, of an enterprising and active turn of mind, was to be a leader in educational reform.
		Eliot was always athletic: he was one of the first to practice regularly in the Harvard gymnasium when the college acquired one, and as a student and tutor, he had sought instruction in boxing.
		Charles, the younger, did for landscape architecture what his father did for education, and was fast proving his worth when he died suddenly of cerebro-spinal meningitis in 1897.
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /eliot/index.html (5283 words)

	Eliot, Charles William. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1854 he was appointed tutor in mathematics at Harvard and in 1858 became assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry.
		Several notable reforms were introduced in the college: the elective system was extended, the curriculum was enriched through the addition of new courses, written examinations were required, the faculty was enlarged, and strict student discipline was relaxed in favor of flexible regulations.
		Eliot also supported Elizabeth Cary Agassiz in her project to establish a women’s college and then fostered the development of Radcliffe College, which was affiliated with Harvard.
	www.bartleby.com /65/el/Eliot-Ch.html (532 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Charles Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Charles Eliot Norton (November 16, 1827 - October 21, 1908) was an American scholar and man of letters.
		Charles River in Cambridge The Charles River is a small, relatively short Massachusetts river that separates Boston from Cambridge and Charlestown.
		ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM (1834-), American educationalist, the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862), mayor of Boston, representative in Congress, and in 1842-1853 treasurer of Harvard, was born in Boston on the 2oth of March 1834.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Charles-Eliot (1709 words)

	Charles William Eliot - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT (1834-), American educationalist, the son of Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798-1862), mayor of Boston, representative in Congress, and in1842-1853treasurer of Harvard, was born in Boston on the loth of March 1834.
		The raising of entrance requirements, which led to a corresponding raising of the standards of secondary schools, and the introduction of an Understood in Eccles.
		His annual reports as President of Harvard were notable contributions to the literature of education in America, and he delivered numerous public addresses, many of which have been reprinted.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_William_Eliot (451 words)

	A Brief History of Eliot House
		Eliot House is named after one of the University's, and the nation's, most renowned educational architects, Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard from 1869 to 1909.
		Eliot's long tenure as President that Harvard moved from its position as something of a small New England college to that of a major national, and international, figure in higher education.
		The arms of Eliot House, which appear on the House stationery, for example, were derived from the Eliot family arms, and are described in the language of heraldry as: silver(the field) a Fess gules (a red bar) between gemels wavy azure (paired wavy blue bands).
	www.digitas.harvard.edu /~eliot/Eliot_House/AboutEH/History.shtml (561 words)

	About MAPC - Eliot Scholarship
		Eliot was an advocate of regional cooperation and especially interested in land use planning as it affected open space protection, land management, and other ecological issues.
		In Memory of Charles W. Eliot II "Planning is the guidance of change," Charles Eliot 2nd noted in his Thoughts on Planning essay developed after some fifty years of practice and teaching.
		Eliot was an outspoken defender of regional planning and the preservation of open space.
	www.mapc.org /about_mapc/Elliot_Scholarship.html (546 words)

	Eliot House at Harvard University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eliot House is situated along the banks of the Charles River, at the intersection of Memorial Drive and John F. Kennedy Street (formerly Boylston Street), on a site that was previously occupied by an electric power plant (which must explain why Eliot House has never won the Green Cup for energy conservation!).
		The Eliot House shield is derived from the Eliot family arms and is described as silver (the field) between gemels wavy azure (paired wavy blue arms) derived from the Devonshire and Cornwall branches of the Eliot family, not the Charles River!
		Similarly, the Eliot elephant comes from the crest of the Eliot family coat-of-arms and apparently, its facial characteristics were inspired by the profile of the first master of the House, Roger "Frisky" Merriman, and drawn by President Eliot's grandson.
	www.eliot.harvard.edu /html/history.shtml (947 words)

	eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Charles Eliot was an educator and was the president of Harvard University for 40 years (1869 to 1909), a remarkable tenure.
		Eliot founded the New England Liberal School of education, and was the antithesis of conservatives such as Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins.
		Eliot was assistant professor of Mathematics and Chemistry at Harvard from 1858 to 1863.
	www.coe.ufl.edu /webtech/GreatIdeas/pages/peoplepage/eliot.htm (334 words)

	Charles Norton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On November 6, 1827 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charles Eliot Norton was born.
		Charles was the son of Andrews Norton, a Unitarian and Harvard professor, and Catherine Eliot.
		Charles, coming from a well-off family, was afforded the luxury of being able to attend and graduate from Harvard, which he did in 1846.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/norton_charles.html (368 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Eliot, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eliot, Charles William ELIOT, CHARLES WILLIAM [Eliot, Charles William] 1834-1926, American educator and president of Harvard, b.
		Eliot, John ELIOT, JOHN [Eliot, John] 1604-90, English missionary in colonial Massachusetts, called the Apostle to the Indians.
		Eliot, Sir John ELIOT, SIR JOHN [Eliot, Sir John] 1592-1632, English parliamentary leader.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Eliot, (530 words)

	Charles William Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eliot also edited the Harvard Classics, which together are colloquially known as his Five Foot Shelf and which were intended at the time to suggest a foundation for learned discourse.
		Eliot, in his 80s, called upon his friends on the faculty and returned to the spotlight in order to help defeat such a step.
		On his passing in 1926, Charles William Eliot was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
	www.kiwipedia.com /charles-w--eliot.html (257 words)

	Norton, Charles Eliot - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		NORTON, CHARLES ELIOT [Norton, Charles Eliot] 1827-1908, American scholar and teacher, b.
		As professor of the history of art at Harvard (1875-98) and as a man of letters he had a stimulating influence on his time.
		Eliot": Anne Sexton and the "impersonal theory of poetry" (1).(Critical Essay)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NortonC1hrl.asp (223 words)

	Charles Eliot and Hemlock Gorge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Eliot believed that particularly in a crowded urban area, people needed easy access to and contact with nature and open space in order to relax, unwind, and escape the pressure of city life.
		To that end, Eliot developed a plan that would provide the growing city and its suburbs with scenery, parks and reservations to be held in perpetuity for public use and enjoyment.
		Eliot's idea was to set aside beach front along the bay, lad along the Chyarles, Mystic, and Neponset rivers, and high ground throughout the Metropolitan area, and to turn this property into regional parks.
	www.hemlockgorge.org /FHGCharlesEliotHistory.htm (522 words)

	CRC - Charles River Basin
		The Charles River Basin defines the center of Boston's metropolitan area, giving residents and visitors alike an enduring sense of place and a refuge for recreation, contemplation, and renewal.
		Conceived by Charles Eliot in the 1890s as a public parkland and urban lake, the Basin has yet to fulfill Eliot's vision for it.
		The Charles River Conservancy was founded as an advocacy group dedicated to the restoration, enhancement, and maintenance of the Charles River Basin and its surroundings, particularly it's parks, parkways, and bridges.
	www.charlesriverconservancy.org /crb/crb.html (547 words)

	Charles Eliot Norton
		His cousin, Harvard University President Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926) appointed Norton to be the first lecturer of Fine Arts at Harvard in 1873.
		A Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry (a distinguished visiting professorship in the Faculty of Arts) at Harvard was established in 1925.
		Charles Eliot Norton: Apostle of Culture in a Democracy.
	dictionaryofarthistorians.org /nortonc.htm (886 words)

	Charles Eliot Dinner, March 21, 2001
		Eliot House seems to have been constructed in such a way as to assimilate the energy of generations of young scholars - about 7,500 so far - without ever showing the strain.
		All controversy now dead, the Domus de Eliot is still flourishing, and we feel just as proud of its inclusiveness and diversity today, as its first inhabitants were of its exclusiveness and uniformity seventy years ago.
		I'd like everyone in Eliot House to feel, deeply and authentically, that he or she is an integral and precious part of the Eliot community with the same rights and the same responsibilities as everyone else, beyond race, gender, class, and personal attributes.
	www.digitas.harvard.edu /~eliot/Eliot_House/AboutEH/CEdinner.shtml (2090 words)

	Harvard Classics Five-Foot Shelf of Books Reading Guide - 15 Minutes A Day
		CHARLES W. for forty years President of Harvard University, acclaimed without question America’s greatest scholar and educator, was eminently fitted to select out of the world’s literature, a well-rounded library of liberal education—depicting the progress of man observing, recording, inventing, and imagining from the earliest historical times to the present day.
		Eliot chooses the simpler selections first, which give the elemental or general survey of the subject and gradually proceeds to the more difficult aspects as the reader progresses.
		Eliot’s short introduction, you will sense the importance he puts on this series of lectures in promoting the educational object he had in mind when he made the collection.
	www.mensetmanus.net /inspiration/fifteen_minutes_a_day/index.shtml (4615 words)

	BookRags: Charles William Eliot Biography
		The American educator Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was president of Harvard from 1869 to 1909 and transformed the college into a modern university.
		Eliot developed an organized 3-year program in the law school, using the case system of instruction based on studying actual court decisions rather than abstract principles.
		By offering many advanced courses to undergraduates, Eliot was able to employ in the college outstanding scholars who divided their time between undergraduate and graduate schools.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/charles-william-eliot (416 words)

	The Pasadena Unified School District - Charles W. Eliot Middle School
		In October of 1991, Eliot was again selected by the State as one of 80 schools to revamp the state's mathematics curriculum and assessment in middle schools.
		Eliot is excited about our "vision for the future" which includes the development of superior academic programs for students while inviting an ever widening circle of partners into the educational process here.
		One of the strongest points for Eliot is the fact we have nine GATE teachers on staff as well as ten present and former mentor teachers.
	www.pusd.us /staticpages/index.php?page=20030825114422998 (530 words)

	Library of American Landscape History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		DESPITE HIS TRAGIC EARLY DEATH, Charles Eliot (1859–1897) was one of this country’s most influential landscape architects.
		This is a rare example of a filial biography, written by Eliot’s father (then president of Harvard) five years after his son’s death at age thirty-eight.
		Charles Eliot emerges from these pages as a brilliant though melancholy young man with a passion for travel, history, and the natural landscape.
	www.lalh.org /bkEliotMain.html (219 words)

	Charles Eliot Norton - LoveToKnow 1911
		His father, Andrews Norton (1786-1853) was a Unitarian theologian, and Dexter professor of sacred literature at Harvard; his mother was Catherine Eliot, Charles William Eliot, president of Harvard, being his cousin.
		Charles Eliot Norton graduated from Harvard in 1846, and started in business with an East Indian trading firm in Boston, for which he travelled to India in 1849.
		After a tour in Europe, he returned to America in 1851, and thenceforward devoted himself to literature and art.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Charles_Eliot_Norton (531 words)

	UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press
		Included are passages from Eliot's travel writing, professional correspondence, and public reports, which bear witness to the range of his interests and intellect.
		Eliot pioneered many of the fundamental principles of regional planning and laid the conceptual and political groundwork for The Trustees of Reservations, the first statewide land conservancy in the country.
		Charles W. Eliot was president of Harvard College from 1869 to 1909.
	www.umass.edu /umpress/fall_99/eliot.html (358 words)

	Eliot House at Harvard University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in Boston on March 20, 1834, Charles William Eliot was educated at Harvard where he was assistant professor of mathematics and chemistry from 1858 to 1863.
		In 1869, in the middle of the journey of his life, Charles Eliot triumphantly returned to Harvard as its 22nd President and in this capacity he remodeled the university curriculum on a liberal basis.
		Charles Eliot retired as President in 1911, and died in 1926, five years before the House bearing his name opened its gates, in September 1931.
	www.eliot.harvard.edu /html/cedinner2003.shtml (1672 words)

	Charles Eliot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The founding father of the land trust movement was Charles Eliot, who started the Trustees of Reservations (originally the Trustees of Public Reservations) in Boston in 1891.
		Eliot died young, at 37 years of age, only six years after the Trustees was begun.
		Perhaps the most interesting of these is Chapter 38 containing Charles Eliot's report "Vegetation and Scenery in the Metropolitan Reservations," (1897) which forms an important early contribution to the developing science of ecology.
	www.richardbrewer.org /oneeliot.html (347 words)

	Charles William Eliot Collection at Bartleby.com
		No one need be anxious about the lack of opportunities in civilized life for the display of heroic qualities.
		In 1863, Eliot went abroad for two years’ study, returning to become professor of chemistry at the new Massachusetts Institute of Technology.… Under Eliot’s 40-year administration, Harvard developed from a small college with attached professional schools into a great modern university.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		In addition to the library of the 50 volumes of the Harvard Classics on Bartleby.com, Eliot’s Harvard editors chose for the Shelf of Fiction 30 authors from 7 national literatures to fill a 20-volume set of literature.
	www.bartleby.com /people/Eliot-Ch.html (193 words)

	Alexander Eliot
		Although Harvard was a tradition in the Eliot family –Alexander Eliot’s great-grandfather Charles W. Eliot had been president – Alex Eliot decided to take a different course.
		Alex Eliot's father, Samuel Atkins Eliot, a professor at Smith College, had started the Socialist Club when a Harvard student and invited Emma Goldman to speak.
		Before entering Black Mountain, Eliot had studied art at Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut with Madame Cheruy, "a fine artist who did great wash-drawings of cathedral interiors." She gave him access to an excellent art history library which had been locked away for fear that its many nudes would be "too stimulating for the boys."
	www.bmcproject.org /Biographies/EliotAlexander/EliotAlexander.htm (429 words)

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