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Sep 6, 2001 · Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent university from 1933 to the present: seven decades of dramatic change. Early twentieth century Harvard was the country's oldest and richest university, but not necessarily its outstanding one.
Sep 6, 2001 · Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller. Oxford University Press, USA, Sep 6, 2001 - Education - 578 pages. Making Harvard Modern is a candid, richly detailed portrait of America's most prominent...
- Morton Keller, Phyllis Keller
- Oxford University Press, USA, 2001
- illustrated
Jan 13, 2020 · The author examines the history of Harvard University from the 1930's to the present including the admission of women; Jews, African-Americans, and Catholics. Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-563) and index. Access-restricted-item.
As befitted a school so rich in tradition and sense of self, President A. Lawrence Lowell in 1924 appointed the Tercentenary Historian: Harvard’s gifted professor of colonial history, Samuel Eliot Morison.
Making Harvard Modern, a book by Morton and Phyllis Keller (2001) about the transformation of Harvard from a Brahmin to a meritocratic institution, offers a telling silence in this respect:...
What place did Harvard College have in the modern University, with its expansive central administration, research-driven faculty, ambitious and high-powered professional schools? A much more important one than this litany of potential threats might suggest.
Morton Keller and Phyllis Keller. Making Harvard Modern: The Rise of America's University. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 608 pp. Paper $25.00. In the eight years since the hardcover publication of Making Harvard Modern, America's oldest institution of higher learning entered a new era in its development.
