Not really; as Wikipedia accurately puts it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot Charles

Not really; as Wikipedia accurately puts it in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot Charles William Eliot (March 20, 1834 – August 22, 1926) was an American academic who was selected as Harvard's president in 1869. He transformed the provincial college into the preeminent American research university. The article goes into a lot of detail about the transformation.