This book was prepared and is sent to you with one purpose in view, to enable you to profit in full measure from the writings of the immortals whom you have at your beck and call in the Harvard Classics.
Charles William Eliot was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. Eliot served the longest term as president in the university's history.
A short guide that came as the 52nd volume in The Harvard Classics set. It introduces the set and offers a "fifteen minutes a day" annual reading plan. I've had my set for a few years, having found it at a good price at The Book Barn in Niantic, CT.