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The university and the future of America.
LIBRA 378.04 L537
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanford University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education, Higher.
- Education--United States.
- Education.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 274 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford University, Calif. : Stanford university press; London : H. Milford, Oxford university press, [1941]
- Contents:
- Foreword, by R. L. Wilbur.
- The twelve houses of heaven, by Isaiah Bowman.
- The new frontiers in the atom, by E. O. Lawrence.
- Three weaknesses in the American educational system and the possible remedies, by R. A. Millikan.
- Education and social control through law, by Roscoe Pound.
- Women in the American university of the future, by A. H. Reinhardt.
- Some aspects of the biological bases of human nature, by H. S. Jennings.
- The unified approach to knowledge and life, by Lewis Mumford.
- The role of science in a liberal education, by E. P. Hubble.
- Problems confronting medical investigators, by W. B. Cannon.
- Human resources, by E. L. Thorndike.
- New products, by C. F. Kettering.
- American writers and the future, by Archibald MacLeish.
- The university in the changing society of the future, by W. F. Ogburn.
- Economics and history in the American university of the future, by E. F. Gay.
- Forum radio broadcast.
- Resume, by Herbert Hoover.
- Notes:
- Symposium in commemoration of Stanford university's first fifty years.
- OCLC:
- 2639387
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