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A widening sphere : evolving cultures at MIT / Philip N. Alexander.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alexander, Philip N., 1952-
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cambridge (Mass.)--Intellectual life.
- Cambridge (Mass.).
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology--Biography.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (536 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Widening sp her e : evol ving cul tur es at MIT
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- "A future full of promise"
- "Sailing seas not well charted"
- "All that we hold true and manly"
- "Uneasy lies the head"
- "Into touch with the world at large"
- "Thoroughly sure of himself"
- "Not the man for us"
- "Shaping things in orderly fashion"
- "All knowledge his sphere"
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- Insert.
- Notes:
- "A portrait of the Institute through the lives of its first nine presidents, William Barton Rogers to Karl Taylor Compton, 1804-1954"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-29438-9
- 1-283-11904-8
- 9786613119049
- 0-262-29540-7
- OCLC:
- 733263187
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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