Lectures on the Harvard Classics
Charles William Eliot, William Allan Neilson
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This podcast presents a series of lectures on the contents of The Harvard Classics, a collection of literary works curated by Charles William Eliot. The lectures aim to help ambitious individuals who had to cut their education short due to early work responsibilities, allowing them to cultivate a taste for serious reading through daily engagement with good literature. The series also seeks to assist readers in developing an appreciation for high-quality reading beyond the Harvard Classics themselves.
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Lectures on the Harvard Classics - Charles William Eliot William Allan Neilson - Part 2 14.06.2026 9h 12minThe Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short by the necessity of contributing in early life to the family earnings, or of supporting themselves, "and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature" (Introduction to The Harvard Classics.) The Series will also assist many readers to cultivate "a taste for serious reading of the highest quality outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them." (Ibid.) It will certainly promote the accomplishment of the educational object I had in mind when I made the collection. - Summary by Charles William Eliot
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Lectures on the Harvard Classics - Charles William Eliot William Allan Neilson - Part 1 14.06.2026 9h 20minThe Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious young men and women whose education was cut short by the necessity of contributing in early life to the family earnings, or of supporting themselves, "and who must therefore reach the standing of a cultivated man or woman through the pleasurable devotion of a few minutes a day through many years to the reading of good literature" (Introduction to The Harvard Classics.) The Series will also assist many readers to cultivate "a taste for serious reading of the highest quality outside of The Harvard Classics as well as within them." (Ibid.) It will certainly promote the accomplishment of the educational object I had in mind when I made the collection. - Summary by Charles William Eliot
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