"Charles William Eliot found Harvard a select little New England college," declared Professor C. T. Copeland yesterday. "After forty years he left it the most important seat of learning in the Western Hemisphere. In the work of transformation he had the help of well-known scholars and administrators, eminent among them Dunbar and Gurney. But Mr. Eliot was the original, irresistible force. He is a great man, the title of whose greatness rests mainly on his creation of the first university in America.
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