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After reading a speech Harvard’s president Charles W. Eliot gave to a group of workers in which he “declared that a five-foot shelf of books could provide” a good substitute for a liberal education in youth to anyone who would read them with devotion, even if he could spare but fifteen minutes a day for reading. Collier asked Eliot to “pick the titles” and they would publish them as a series. The books appealed to the upwardly mobile and those hungry for knowledge and an education denied them, but the cost would still have been prohibitive to many.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 08:37:02 +0000

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