Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Meetings Held in Commemoration of the Life and Services of Francis Amasa Walker
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Pages : 56
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Meetings Held in Commemoration of the Life and Services of Francis Amasa Walker
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Pages : 39
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The Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 1824
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Pages : 1824
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A Widening Sphere
Author: Philip N. Alexander
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262294389
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262294389
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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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.
Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Meetings Held in Comemoration of the Life and Service of Francis Amasa Walker
Author: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Languages : en
Pages : 39
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Languages : en
Pages : 39
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. no.
Library Bulletins
Author: Columbia University. Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Pages : 450
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Pages : 374
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