Making Harvard Modern
The Rise of America's University
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Author
Publication
2001-10-08 - Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Word Count
160,000 words, Guess
Page Count
640 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7389645M
- ISBN-139780195144574
- ISBN-100195144570
- OCLC Control Number47045081
- OCLC Control Numbermakingharvardmod00kell
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2001039093
- Goodreads5407328
- LibraryThing300125
Classifications
- LCCLD2153.K45 2001
Description
"Making Harvard Modern is a portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early-twentieth-century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one. By the century's end it was widely regarded as the nation's, and the world's, leading institution of higher education. With verve, humor, and insight, Morton and Phyllis Keller tell the story of that rise: a tale of compelling personalities, notable achievement, and no-less-notable academic pratfalls. Their book is based on rich and revealing archival materials, interviews, and personal experience."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
The Harvard that James Bryant Conant inherited when he became president in 1933 was the creation of his Boston Brahmin predecessors Charles W. Eliot (1867-1908) and Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1908-33).
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