Title A widening sphere : evolving cultures at MIT / Philip N. Alexander

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 508 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations Contents Machine generated contents note: "A Future Full of Promise" / William Barton Rogers -- "Sailing Seas Not Well Charted" / John Daniel Runkle -- "All that we Hold True and Manly" / Francis Amasa Walker -- "Uneasy Lies the Head" / James Mason Crafts -- "Into Touch with the World at Large" / Henry Smith Pritchett -- "Thoroughly Sure of Himself" / Richard Cockburn MacLaurin -- "Not the Man for Us" / Ernest Fox Nichols -- "Shaping Things in Orderly Fashion" / Samuel Wesley Stratton -- "All Knowledge his Sphere" / Karl Taylor Compton Summary How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university Analysis EDUCATION / Higher TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History EDUCATION / History Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-474) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Biography SUBJECT Massachusetts Institute of Technology fast Subject EDUCATION -- Higher. Intellectual life SUBJECT Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life Subject Massachusetts -- Cambridge Genre/Form Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780262295406 0262295407 1283119048 9781283119047 9786613119049 6613119040 0262294389 9780262294386

Other Titles Widening sp her e : evol ving cul tur es at MIT

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