Author: United States. Rural Electrification AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Rural Electrification Program Today, Strength for the Future, Addresses by Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman and Norman M. Clapp, Administor, Before the 21st Annual Meeting of the National Rural Electric Coorperative Association at Las Vegas, Nevada, January, 1963
Author: United States. Rural Electrification AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Leadership in Communist China
Author: John Wilson LewisPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The principles of party leadership examined here are primarily those derived by revolutionary Chinese Communist cadres under Mao. The period of the rise and fall of the great leap optimism is emphasized.
The SAR Magazine
Author: Sons of the American RevolutionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
The Cornell Alumni News
Author: History of Cooperative Soybean Processing in the United States (2013-2021)
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko AoyagiPublisher: Soyinfo Center
ISBN: 1948436604
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive subject and geographic index. 58 photographs and illustrations - many color. Free of charge in digital PDF format.
The Diocese of Western New York, 1897-1931
Author: George Sherman BurrowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State), Western
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
A History of Cornell
Author: Morris BishopPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455375
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university—reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture—and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public. Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader." The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White." Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely—and alone—from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.
Geophysical Abstracts 96-99, January-December 1939
Author: John George StaackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
Book Description
Annual Report - Office of Coal Research
Author: United States. Office of Coal ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coal
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Cropland Conversion Program
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cropland conversion program
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description