Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer of Harvard College
Author: Harvard UniversityReport of the President of Harvard College and Reports of Departments
Author: Harvard UniversityThe Intellectual Sword
Author: Bruce A. KimballPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674245717
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
A history of Harvard Law School in the twentieth century, focusing on the school’s precipitous decline prior to 1945 and its dramatic postwar resurgence amid national crises and internal discord. By the late nineteenth century, Harvard Law School had transformed legal education and become the preeminent professional school in the nation. But in the early 1900s, HLS came to the brink of financial failure and lagged its peers in scholarly innovation. It also honed an aggressive intellectual culture famously described by Learned Hand: “In the universe of truth, they lived by the sword. They asked no quarter of absolutes, and they gave none.” After World War II, however, HLS roared back. In this magisterial study, Bruce Kimball and Daniel Coquillette chronicle the school’s near collapse and dramatic resurgence across the twentieth century. The school’s struggles resulted in part from a debilitating cycle of tuition dependence, which deepened through the 1940s, as well as the suicides of two deans and the dalliance of another with the Nazi regime. HLS stubbornly resisted the admission of women, Jews, and African Americans, and fell behind the trend toward legal realism. But in the postwar years, under Dean Erwin Griswold, the school’s resurgence began, and Harvard Law would produce such major political and legal figures as Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Elena Kagan, and President Barack Obama. Even so, the school faced severe crises arising from the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, Critical Legal Studies, and its failure to enroll and retain people of color and women, including Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Based on hitherto unavailable sources—including oral histories, personal letters, diaries, and financial records—The Intellectual Sword paints a compelling portrait of the law school widely considered the most influential in the world.
Beyond Curie
Author: Scott CalvinPublisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN: 168174645X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
In the 116 year history of the Nobel Prize in Physics, only two women have won the award; Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Mayer (1963). During the 60 years between those awards, several women did work of similar calibre. This book focuses on those women, providing biographies for each that discuss both how they made their discoveries and the gender-specific reception of those discoveries. It also discusses the Nobel process and how society and the scientific community's treatment of them were influenced by their gender.
Bibliographical Contributions
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Library Bulletin
Author: Library Bulletin
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
Accessions to the Department Library
Author: United States. Department of Agriculture. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
The Standardization of American Schooling
Author: M. VanOverbekePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230612598
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book explores the efforts of educational reformers who sought to link secondary and higher education in the decades after 1870. Through various state, regional, and national initiatives, these reformers created a hierarchical system, laid the foundation for a growing standardization in education, and influenced who would have access to college. Neither higher education nor the secondary branches dominated the other in creating this educational system. Rather, through debate, argument, and accommodation, the two levels mutually shaped each other in a time of significant political and economic change. Reformers today wrestle with this legacy as they continue to forge connections between the two educational levels.