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Author Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- author.

Title Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows / Samuel Jay Keyser ; foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 223 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Mens -- The wrecking ball -- The steps of Widener -- The making of a department head -- The life of a department head -- pt. 2. et mania -- To be or not to be a university -- Housemaster -- Pornography and free speech -- Hacking -- Role compliance -- "Don't tell me what to do" -- Apartheid -- The aftermath -- After the aftermath -- What's going on here? -- Recommendation -- A good university is a bad business -- They R us -- Chūshingura and catastrophes -- Hello, I must be going
Summary A memoir of MIT life, from being Noam Chomsky's boss to negotiating with student protesters
Analysis MIT
Notes Print version record
Subject Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
SUBJECT Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935- fast
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Faculty -- Biography
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.
SUBJECT Massachusetts Institute of Technology fast
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy fast
Subject College department heads -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography
Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge
College administrators -- Massachusetts -- Cambridge -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Educators.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
College administrators
College department heads
Intellectual life
Linguistics -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
SUBJECT Cambridge (Mass.) -- Intellectual life
Cambridge (Mass.) -- Biography
Subject Massachusetts -- Cambridge
Genre/Form collective biographies.
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262300063
0262300060
128325882X
9781283258821