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Cornell University --- Employees --- Ithaca (N.Y.). --- Kʻang-nai-erh ta hsüeh --- Kornelʹskii universitet --- 康奈爾大學

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Cornell University is fortunate to have as its historian a man of Morris Bishop's talents and devotion. As an accurate record and a work of art possessing form and personality, his book at once conveys the unique character of the early university-reflected in its vigorous founder, its first scholarly president, a brilliant and eccentric faculty, the hardy student body, and, sometimes unfortunately, its early architecture-and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education. Cornell began in rebellion against the obscurantism of college education a century ago. Its record, claims the author, makes a social and cultural history of modern America. This story will undoubtedly entrance Cornellians; it will also charm a wider public.Dr. Allan Nevins, historian, wrote: "I anticipated that this book would meet the sternest tests of scholarship, insight, and literary finish. I find that it not only does this, but that it has other high merits. It shows grasp of ideas and forces. It is graphic in its presentation of character and idiosyncrasy. It lights up its story by a delightful play of humor, felicitously expressed. Its emphasis on fundamentals, without pomposity or platitude, is refreshing. Perhaps most important of all, it achieves one goal that in the history of a living university is both extremely difficult and extremely valuable: it recreates the changing atmosphere of time and place. It is written, very plainly, by a man who has known and loved Cornell and Ithaca for a long time, who has steeped himself in the traditions and spirit of the institution, and who possesses the enthusiasm and skill to convey his understanding of these intangibles to the reader."The distinct personalities of Ezra Cornell and first president Andrew Dickson White dominate the early chapters. For a vignette of the founder, see Bishop's description of "his" first buildings (Cascadilla, Morrill, McGraw, White, Sibley): "At best," he writes, "they embody the character of Ezra Cornell, grim, gray, sturdy, and economical." To the English historian, James Anthony Froude, Mr. Cornell was "the most surprising and venerable object I have seen in America." The first faculty, chosen by President White, reflected his character: "his idealism, his faith in social emancipation by education, his dislike of dogmatism, confinement, and inherited orthodoxy"; while the "romantic upstate gothic" architecture of such buildings as the President's house (now Andrew D. White Center for the Humanities), Sage Chapel, and Franklin Hall may be said to "portray the taste and Soul of Andrew Dickson White."Other memorable characters are Louis Fuertes, the beloved naturalist; his student, Hugh Troy, who once borrowed Fuertes' rhinoceros-foot wastebasket for illicit if hilarious purposes; the more noteworthy and the more eccentric among the faculty of succeeding presidential eras; and of course Napoleon, the campus dog, whose talent for hailing streetcars brought him home safely-and alone-from the Penn game. The humor in A History of Cornell is at times kindly, at times caustic, and always illuminating.

Cornell University --- Ithaca (N.Y.). --- Kʻang-nai-erh ta hsüeh --- Kornelʹskii universitet --- 康奈爾大學 --- History. --- EDUCATION / Higher.

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Universitat Bremen --- Bremen (Germany). --- Universitaet Bremen --- Bu-lai-mei ta hsüeh --- University of Bremen --- Bremenskiĭ universitet --- Universidad de Bremen --- Universität Bremen. --- Bremen (Germany). Universität Bremen

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Frend, William --- University of Cambridge --- Cambridge. --- Academia Cantabrigiensis --- Cambridge University --- Ying-kuo Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- 剑桥大学 --- Jianqiao da xue --- Kembridzhiĭn Ikh Surguulʹ --- Кембриджийн Их Сургууль --- Kambrija Yeke Surġaġuli --- Universität Cambridge --- Frend, William, --- University of Cambridge. --- Frend, W. --- Кембриджийн Их Сургууль --- Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge --- Cambridge. University

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Since the 'scientific revolution' of the seventeenth century, a great number of distinguished scientists and mathematicians have been associated with the University of Cambridge. Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and James Clerk Maxwell. The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history.

Scientists --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Professional employees --- History. --- University of Cambridge --- Academia Cantabrigiensis --- Cambridge. --- Cambridge University --- Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- Jianqiao da xue --- Kambrija Yeke Surġaġuli --- Kembridzhiĭn Ikh Surguulʹ --- Universität Cambridge --- Ying-kuo Chien-chʻiao ta hsüeh --- Кембриджийн Их Сургууль --- 剑桥大学 --- Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge --- Cambridge. University