Charles William Eliot

Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who served as Harvard University's president from 1869 until 1909. Quotes A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written — Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English. Z. Elmarsafy A. Bernard D. Attwell Debating Orientalism https://books.google.com/books?id=VP6ARP2m-D0C&pg=PA82 13 June 2013 Springer 978-1-137-34111-2 82 Enter to grow in wisdom. / Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind. Over entrance (“Enter”) and exit (“Depart”) of Dexter gate (gift of Class of 1890) to Harvard Yard, erected 1901.Enter to grow in wisdom: A tour of Harvard’s gates, Ken Gewertz, The Harvard Gazette, December 15, 2005The Yale Book of Quotations, 2006, "enter+to+grow+in+wisdom" p. 232 Alternatives Eliot considered included “Enter daily to grow in wisdom,” and “Depart to serve better thy country and mankind.”The Gates of Harvard Yard, Harvard Magazine, 2013 July 18The Gates of Harvard Yard: The Complete Story, in Words and Pictures, of a Great University’s Iconic Portals Widely paraphrased as: Enter to learn; go forth to serve. Used by schools including Brigham Young University, Delaware State University, Tennessee State University, Keene State College, and Oakland City College.BYU not alone in using motto 'enter to learn', Tad Walch, Deseret News, August 4, 2007 Sometimes credited (in abbreviated form) to Margaret Sanger.“Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve.”, Jill Grimaldi, Margaret Sanger Papers Project, 2010-11-30 Sometimes parodied as: “Enter to learn; go forth to earn.” Quotes about Eliot Eliot revolutionized the Harvard curriculum, transforming a moribund academic system for training clergy into a modern research institution at the forefront of American and international scholarship. Z. Elmarsafy A. Bernard D. Attwell Debating Orientalism https://books.google.com/books?id=VP6ARP2m-D0C&pg=PA81 13 June 2013 Springer 978-1-137-34111-2 81 References External links Category:1834 births Category:1926 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:People from Boston