Harvard Classics

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Section one of Lectures on the Harvard Classics.

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Lectures on the Harvard Classics, edited by Charles William Eliot and William Allen Nielsen.

History.

One.

I, I go to a, a book sale that happens every two weeks, and they sometimes have older books in a particular spot.

And that week they had a set of, uh, the Harvard Classics five-foot shelf of books, they're called.

And it was the, uh, president of the college had this idea that on a f- five feet of shelf space you could have all the knowledge that you would ever need.

And so that was the impetus for this series called the, the Five-Foot Shelf of Books.

To my point, one of the things we want to do with these books, and the reason we want to make them really nice is because we want something aspirational.

Hannah and I grew up with the kinds of books in the house, like the Reader's Digest editions and stuff, and Harvard Classics, and the Junior Classics.

You had these books that were cloth-bound, or sometimes even leather-bound, or pseudo-leather-bound, and they were thick.

And they're well-made and, and they have like nice fonts and they're aspirational.

Here's one that a man that I met at Harvard University gave me.

It's the Harvard Classics, five-foot shelf of books, The Confessions of St. Augustine and the Imitation of Christ.

It's a nice, beautiful, probably relatively valuable Harvard edition.

I just met him at Harvard.