Lectures on the Harvard Classics
Author: first_name:  Charles William
last_name: Eliot
first_name: William Allan
last_name: Neilson
Language: English
Year: 1910

The 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