Foreword / John S. Reed -- Growing Up in South Chicago during the Depression -- College and Going to War -- The University of Chicago after the War: Student and Faculty Member -- Becoming a Part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- The School of Industrial Management Becomes the Sloan School -- Early Years as President of MIT -- Grim Years for the Nation and the Universities -- Education in the Midst of Turmoil: The Close of a Presidency -- Chairing the MIT Corporation and Other Challenges -- Boston's Museum of Fine Arts in a New Era -- MIT Goes On -- Coda: A Note for Students on Leadership -- Registry of Names
Summary
"Howard Wesley Johnson has been associated with MIT for more than forty years and been a major influence on the modernization and expansion of many of its programs. He will be most remembered as a management educator and as MIT's president during the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s. The title of his memoirs reflects his central, usually lonely position in those days, trying to hold together an institution often torn apart by the turmoil of the times."--Jacket
