A widening sphere : evolving cultures at MIT / Philip N. Alexander.

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Alexander, Philip N, 1952-

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computer

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online resource

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9780262295406
0262295407
1283119048
9781283119047
9786613119049
6613119040
0262294389
9780262294386

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Widening sp her e : evol ving cul tur es at MIT

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Widening sphere.DDC classification:

378.744/4 23

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T171.M49 A85 2011eb

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Contents:

Machine generated contents note: "A Future Full of Promise" / William Barton Rogers -- "Sailing Seas Not Well Charted" / John Daniel Runkle -- "All that we Hold True and Manly" / Francis Amasa Walker -- "Uneasy Lies the Head" / James Mason Crafts -- "Into Touch with the World at Large" / Henry Smith Pritchett -- "Thoroughly Sure of Himself" / Richard Cockburn MacLaurin -- "Not the Man for Us" / Ernest Fox Nichols -- "Shaping Things in Orderly Fashion" / Samuel Wesley Stratton -- "All Knowledge his Sphere" / Karl Taylor Compton.

Summary: How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-474) and index.

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How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university.

English.

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