Editing Charles William Eliot (section)

===Inscriptions composed by Charles W. Eliot===
Over one hundred inscriptions were composed by President Eliot, placed on buildings ranging from schools, churches, public buildings, memorial tablets, numerous monuments, and to the Library of Congress.<ref>{{cite book |title= Inscriptions Written by Charles William Eliot |last1= The Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College|year= 1934|publisher= Harvard University Press|pages= 22, 27}}</ref>

<poem>ON THESE HEIGHTS 
DURING THE NIGHT OF MARCH 4 1776,
THE AMERICAN TROOPS BESIEGING BOSTON
BUILT TWO REDOUBTS, 
WHICH MADE THE HARBOR AND TOWN 
UNTENABLE BY THE BRITISH FLEET AND GARRISON.
ON MARCH 17 THE BRITISH FLEET
CARRYING 11000 EFFECTIVE MEN
AND 1000 REFUGES,
DROPPED DOWN TO NANTASKET ROADS
AND THENCEFORTH
BOSTON WAS FREE,
A STRONG BRITISH FORCE
HAD BEEN EXPELLED 
FROM ONE OF THE UNITED AMERICAN COLONIES</poem>
(Evacuation Monument - [[Dorchester Heights]] Monument, Boston, Massachusetts, 1902)

<poem>TO THE MEN OF BOSTON
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY
ON LAND AND SEA IN THE WAR
WHICH KEPT THE UNION WHOLE,
DESTROYED SLAVERY AND MAINTAINED THE CONSTITUTION.
THE GRATEFUL CITY
HAS BUILT THIS MONUMENT,
THAT THEIR EXAMPLE MAY SPEAK 
TO COMING GENERATIONS</poem>
([[Soldiers and Sailors Monument (Boston)]], Boston Common, Massachusetts, 1877)