The History Of the Harvard Classics

The Harvard Classics. In 1908 Doctor Charles W. Eliot, who had been the President of Harvard University for 40 years, was heard saying that a three-foot shelf of books could offer anyone who was interested the equivalent to a “Liberal Arts Education." P.F. Collier & Sons Company, a magazine and publishing company, took him up on his claim and asked that he put together that list of books, but expanded it to 5 feet. That's were the story begins. No Quantum Physics required. Algebra is not on the list.