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This history of Harvard from its days as a religiously based academy to its unparalleled status today examines the university's changing character and traces in detail the tenure of Harvard's last five presidents, beginning in 1869
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Richard Norton Smith is Director of the Gerald R. Ford Museum.
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Mr. Smith fulfills his intentions with as readable an account of Harvard as we are likely to need for a while. (Robert A. McCaughey New York Times Book Review)
We appear to be at a turning point in the evolution of colleges and universities in America. As in earlier periods of our history, the institutions of higher education are changing in response to the knowledge needs of society...In reading Richard Norton Smith's The Harvard Century one revisits those forces and personalities shaping our major universities during the decisive decades of their development as the centers for scientific research. (Christopher N. Breiseth Change)
We appear to be at a turning point in the evolution of colleges and universities in America. As in earlier periods of our history, the institutions of higher education are changing in response to the knowledge needs of society...In reading Richard Norton Smith's The Harvard Century one revisits those forces and personalities shaping our major universities during the decisive decades of their development as the centers for scientific research. (Christopher N. Breiseth Change)
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0671460358
- ISBN 13 9780671460358
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages397
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