Making Harvard Modern
Subtitle: The Rise of America's University
Edition: Updated Edition edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780195325157
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Universities / polytechnics; Individual Institutions Of Higher Education; Education; Education / Teaching; USA; Higher; History; United States - 20th Century; History / United States / 20th Century
First sentence: The Harvard that James Bryant Conant inherited when he became president in 1933 was the creation of his Boston Brahmin predecessors Charles W. Eliot (1867-1908) and Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1908-33).