Backstairs at Harvard
By: by Ruth Hyde Hanford
Published: 1950
Language: eng
Subjects: Faculty; Spouses; Biography; Employees; Harvard University; Widener Library (Cambridge, Mass.)
Description: Memoir by Ruth Hyde Hanford recounts her experiences as a student at Vassar College, an employee at the Harvard Bureau of Municipal Research (working under William Bennett Munro and housed in Widener Library), and the wife of a Harvard College dean.
Notes: Ruth Hyde Hanford was a graduate of Vassar and the wife of Alfred Chester Hanford, a professor of government and Dean of Harvard College (1927-1947).
Table of contents: title: Humble servant; title: Annals of the poor; title: Summer School era; title: Being a dean's wife; title: In the public eye; title: Crises hit home; title: Athletics; title: Important personages; title: L'envoi.