Author: Charles Francis ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A History of the Lowell Institute School, 1903-1928
Author: Charles Francis ParkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
John Lowell Jr. and His Institute
Author: Chaim M. RosenbergPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1793644608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book examines the life and legacy of John Lowell Jr (1799–1836) through the establishment of the Lowell Institute, still active in Boston, which offers free education.
A Widening Sphere
Author: Philip N. AlexanderPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262294389
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university. MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston's Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America's ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers for the nation's burgeoning industries. Over the years, MIT expanded its mission and ventured into other fields—pure science, social science, the humanities—and established itself in Cambridge as Harvard's enduring rival. In A Widening Sphere, Philip Alexander traces MIT's evolution from polytechnic to major research institution through the lives of its first nine presidents, exploring how the ideas, outlook, approach, and personality of each shaped the school's intellectual and social cultures. Alexander describes, among otherthings, the political skill and entrepreneurial spirit of founder and first president, William Rogers; institutional growing pains under John Runkle; Francis Walker's campaign to broaden the curriculum, especially in the social sciences, and to recruit first-rate faculty; James Crafts, whose heart lay in research, not administration; Henry Pritchett's thwarted effort to merge with Harvard (after which he decamped to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Richard Maclaurin's successful strategy to move the institute to Cambridge, after considering other sites (including a golfclub in Brighton); the brilliant, progressive Ernest Nichols, who succumbed to chronic illness and barely held office; Samuel Stratton's push towards a global perspective; and Karl Compton's vision for a new kind of Institute—a university polarized around science and technology. Through these interlocking yet independent portraits, Alexander reveals the inner workings of a complex and dynamic community of innovators.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2934
Book Description
A Bibliographic Guide to American Colleges and Universities
Author: Mark BeachPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A History of the Federal Biological Laboratory at Beaufort, North Carolina 1899-1999
Author: Douglas A. WolfePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Massachusetts, a Bibliography of Its History
Author: John Duncan HaskellPublisher: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
School & Society
Author: James McKeen CattellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 960
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