Author: Abraham Van Doren Honeyman
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Van Doorn Family
Author: Abraham Van Doren Honeyman
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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A Genealogy of the Warne Family in America
Author: George Warne Labaw
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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The American Genealogist, Being a Catalogue of Family Histories
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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The Christmas Castle
Author: Megan Runkle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737629405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A whimsical children's book about a Christmas Castle and all the magical things within.
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ISBN: 9781737629405
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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A whimsical children's book about a Christmas Castle and all the magical things within.
American and English Genealogies in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 824
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A Widening Sphere
Author: Philip N. Alexander
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543990
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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262543990
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.
Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public Library
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Report
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Genealogy of the Parthemore Family. 1744-1885
Author: E. Winfield Scott Parthemore
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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John Frederick Parthemore immigrated to America in 1744 and settled in Pennsylvania.
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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John Frederick Parthemore immigrated to America in 1744 and settled in Pennsylvania.
The Capen Family
Author: Charles Albert Hayden
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ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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