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To advance knowledge : the growth of American research universities, 1900-1940 / Roger L. Geiger.
LIBRA Q180.U5 G34 1986
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geiger, Roger L., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Research institutes--United States--History.
- Research institutes.
- Science--United States--History.
- Science.
- History.
- United States.
- Universities and colleges--United States.
- Universities and colleges.
- Physical Description:
- x, 325 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- Geiger describes how each university in its own way resolved the tension between the research role and other institutional commitments. The book focuses on Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, Cornell, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, and the Universities of Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Chicago, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and California.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0195038037
- OCLC:
- 12973349
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