Research Catalog

Title

Veritas : Harvard College and the American experience / by Andrew Schlesinger.

Author

Schlesinger, Andrew.

Publication

Chicago : I.R. Dee, 2005.

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Details

Description

xiii, 304 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

Summary

"In Veritas, Andrew Schlesinger tells the story of Harvard College by tracing the conflicts in its history between the forces of veritas and the inertial forces, the impediments to truth - sectarianism, statism, aristocracy, racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, the "shackles of ancient discipline." This theme forms the thread of Mr. Schlesinger's fascinating chronicle of Harvard as an American institution." "In episodic fashion, with a large measure of wit, he examines the important actions and decisions of Harvard's leadership from Puritan times to the present, and provides lively details of its college life since 1636. There was no guarantee that Harvard would become a great university. But the commitment to veritas compelled the institution to change in the face of new knowledge or cease to be. Mr. Schlesinger's book is about how Harvard changed."--Jacket.

Subject

• Harvard University > History
• Harvard College (1636-1780) > History
• Harvard College (1636-1780)
• Harvard University
• Cambridge <Mass.> / Harvard University
• Universities and colleges > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.273-292).

Contents

The College in the Puritan Church-State -- Born Again? -- Revolutionary Times -- Harvard and the New Nation -- President Quincy Meets President Jackson -- Harvard and the Civil War -- President Eliot's Harvard -- Harvard and the Outside Men -- Harvard Against the Totalitarians -- The Last "Great Rebellion" -- The Transformations of Race and Gender -- The University of the Future.

ISBN

• 1566636361
• 9781566636360

LCCN

2004028244

OCLC

• ocm57237636
• 57237636
• SCSB-8921385

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library