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Author Angulo, A. J.

Title William Barton Rogers and the idea of MIT / A.J. Angulo
Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 220 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. An Uncertain Future -- 2. Tenure in the Tumult -- 3. From Soils to Species -- 4. Advancing and Diffusing -- 5. Thwarted Reform -- 6. Instituting a New Education -- 7. Convergence of Interests -- 8. Reception of the Idea -- 9. This Fatal Year
Summary "Conceptual founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, William Barton Rogers was a highly influential scientific mind and educational reformer of the nineteenth century. A.J. Angulo recounts the largely unknown story of one man's ideas and how they gave way to the creation of one of America's premier institutions of higher learning." "Exploring the intersection of Rogers's educational philosophy and the rise of technical institutes in America, this biography offers a long-overdue account of the man behind MIT."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and index
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Subject Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882.
SUBJECT Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882
Rogers, William Barton, 1804-1882 fast
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- History
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Presidents -- Biography
SUBJECT Massachusetts Institute of Technology fast
Subject College presidents -- Massachusetts -- Biography
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States -- History
Engineering -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History
College presidents
Engineering -- Study and teaching
Presidents
Science -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Massachusetts
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008013749
ISBN 9781421400297
1421400294