Harvard Observed: An Illustrated History of the University in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

Bethell, John T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674377338 ISBN 13: 9780674377332

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1998

Synopsis

Depicting the evolution of twentieth-century Harvard in the broader context of national and world events, Harvard Observed has much to say and show about the academic rites, intellectual arguments, sexual mores, fads, and folklore that became touchstones for successive generations of Harvardians. Photographs, drawings, and paintings from the University's vast archival collections and museums add a compelling visual dimension.

About this title

About the Author:

John T. Bethell is the Senior Editor of The American Scholar and a contributing editor at Harvard Magazine, where he was editor from 1966 to 1995.

Review:

Mr. Bethell, former editor of Harvard Magazine, guides readers through an engaging history of the modern university as it mirrored the ups and downs of this century--wars, the Depression, the atomic and electronic ages. It is a heritage of which not only Cantabrigians but all Americans can be proud. (King Features Weekly Service)

In the early years of the twentieth century, President Charles William Eliot fought to keep Harvard from becoming a refuge for "the stupid sons of the rich." A. Lawrence Lowell, a tireless builder, gave the modern University its physical structure. James Conant helped forge a wartime alliance of universities, industry, and government that sustained an astonishingly prosperous postwar epoch.

John Bethell provides his general readers with "a panoramic view" of Harvard that must be judged a "just representation," and in the words of Dr. Johnson, it "will please many, and please long." (Michael Shinagel Harvard Review)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0674377338
• ISBN 13: 9780674377332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320