The Founding Of Harvard College

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674314511
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding of Harvard College written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities back to Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674888913
Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636-1936 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.

Author : Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674314511
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Founding of Harvard College written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morison here traces the roots of American universities in Europe, as they have perhaps never been traced before; and with mellow erudition, frequent flashes of wit, and a lively contemporary perspective, he sketches in a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande.

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher : Cambridge, Owen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.DN/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Harvard University written by Josiah Quincy and published by Cambridge, Owen. This book was released on 1840 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Max Hall
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674380806
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard University Press written by Max Hall and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A university press is a curious institution, dedicated to the dissemination of learning yet apart from the academic structure; a publishing firm that is in business, but not to make money; an arm of the university that is frequently misunderstood and occasionally attacked by faculty and administration. Max Hall here chronicles the early stages and first sixty years of Harvard University Press in a rich and entertaining book that is at once Harvard history, publishing history, printing history, business history, and intellectual history. The tale begins in 1638 when the first printing press arrived in British North America. It became the property of Harvard College and remained so for nearly half a century. Hall sketches the various forerunners of the "real" Harvard University Press, founded in 1913, and then follows the ups and downs of its first six decades, during which the Press published steadily if not always serenely a total of 4,500 books. He describes the directors and others who left their stamp on the Press or guided its fortunes during these years. And he gives the stories behind such enduring works as Lovejoy's Great Chain of Being, Giedion's Space, Time, and Architecture, Langer's Philosophy in a New Key, and Kelly's Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings.

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 762 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Harvard University written by Josiah Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Freidel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674375604
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard Guide to American History written by Frank Freidel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editions for 1954 and 1967 by O. Handlin and others.

Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375103891
Total Pages : 750 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Harvard University written by Josiah Quincy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

Author : Steve Nadis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674727894
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History in Sum written by Steve Nadis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, American mathematicians began to make critical advances in a field previously dominated by Europeans. Harvard’s mathematics department was at the center of these developments. A History in Sum is an inviting account of the pioneers who trailblazed a distinctly American tradition of mathematics—in algebraic geometry and topology, complex analysis, number theory, and a host of esoteric subdisciplines that have rarely been written about outside of journal articles or advanced textbooks. The heady mathematical concepts that emerged, and the men and women who shaped them, are described here in lively, accessible prose. The story begins in 1825, when a precocious sixteen-year-old freshman, Benjamin Peirce, arrived at the College. He would become the first American to produce original mathematics—an ambition frowned upon in an era when professors largely limited themselves to teaching. Peirce’s successors—William Fogg Osgood and Maxime Bôcher—undertook the task of transforming the math department into a world-class research center, attracting to the faculty such luminaries as George David Birkhoff. Birkhoff produced a dazzling body of work, while training a generation of innovators—students like Marston Morse and Hassler Whitney, who forged novel pathways in topology and other areas. Influential figures from around the world soon flocked to Harvard, some overcoming great challenges to pursue their elected calling. A History in Sum elucidates the contributions of these extraordinary minds and makes clear why the history of the Harvard mathematics department is an essential part of the history of mathematics in America and beyond.

Author : Bainbridge Bunting
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674372917
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harvard written by Bainbridge Bunting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Harvard's architecture examines the Federal architecture of Charles Bulfinch, H.H. Richardson's Romanesque buildings, the Imperial manner reflected in Widener Library, and the work of other architects such as Charles McKim, Gropius and Le Corbusier.