The Harvard book : selections from three centuries /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Bentinck-Smith, William, 1914-1993. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1982. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. What is This Place?
- 1. Anonymous: In Respect of the College (1643)
- 2. Samuel Eliot Morison: John Havard and the Note of Freedom (1636-1936)
- 3. William James: The True Harvard (1908)
- 4. Walter Prichard Eaton: Here's to the Harvard Accent! (1936)
- 5. David McCord: The Lights Come On (1941)
- 6. Donald Moffat: One View of Harvard (1948)
- 7. Three Presidents: Toward a Definition of Harvard (1869-1950)
- Part 2. Pedagogues and Pupils
- 8. Henry Dunster: Considerations (1654)
- 9. Cotton Mather: Havard from Roar to Mather (1702)
- 10. Clifford K. Shipton: The Nephew of Uncle Experience (c.1780)
- 11. David Sewall: Father Flynt's Journey to Portmouth (1754)
- 10. Andrew Preston Peabody: Old Pop (c. 1830)
- 11. Presidential Tact: Four Letters from Four Letters from Four Presidents (1829-1862)
- 12. Thomas Hill: A Collecting Trip With Louis Agassiz(1848)
- 13. John T. Wheelwright and Frederic J. Stimson: How Rollo Came to be Examined(1880)
- 14. George Santayana: The Harvard Yard (1882-1912)
- 15. Richard C. Evarts: Eamination for Alice (1913)
- 16. Charles Loring Jackson: The Sophocles Myth (1923)
- 17. Theodore Pearson: President Lowell Builds His Harvard(1925)
- 18. Rollo Walter Brown: The Old Dean (1932)
- 19. Arthur Calvert Smith: To Copeland at Eighty, by a Life Long Pupil (1940)
- 20. Jacob Loewenberg : Emerson Hall Revisted (1948)
- Part 3. Trouble Under the Elms
- 21. Mistress Eaton:I Own the Shame and Confess My Sin (1639)
- 22. Edward Holyoke: The Burning of Harvard Hall (1764)
- 23. Samuel Chandler: A College Tragedy (1773)
- 24. Eliphalet Pearson: Journal of Disorders (1778)
- 25. Augustus Peirce: Overture to the Riot (1818)
- 26. Cleveland Amory: Dr. Parkman Takes a Walk (1849)
- 27. Ellery Sedgwick: Jane Toppan's Case (1892)
- Part 4. "You Can Tell Havard Man..."
- 28. Keep Thou the College Laws: A Series of Excerpts (1655-1790)
- 29. Thomas Shepard, Jr.: "That Precious Time You Now Misspend" (1672)
- 30. Richard Waldron: A Freshman Guide (1735)
- 31. Frederic West Holland: A Freshman Hazing (1827)
- 32. Oliver Wendell Holmes: Of Cambridge and Female Society (1828-1830
- 33. James Woodbury Boyden: Examined for Entrance (1838)
- 34. Thomas Hill: There is Nothing but Mischief in their Heads (1839)
- 35. William Tucker Washburn: A Meeting of the Med. Fac. (c.1858)
- 36. Robert Nathan: Peter Kindred's First Days (1919)
- Part 5. Sports and Sporting Men
- 37. Jacob Rhett Motto: A Southern Sport At Harvard (1831)
- 38. Charles W. Eliot: What a Day for Our Race! (1858)
- 39. Mark Sibley Severance: The Contest on the Delta (c.1855)
- 40. Owen Wister: The Search for the Bird--In--Hand (1903)
- 41. John Dos Passos: Adventure at Norumbega (1923)
- 42. Lucius Beebe: Notes on a Dry Generation (1927
- 43. George Weller: Eleven O'Clock in November (1933)
- 44. Alistair Cooke: A Lesson For Yale (1951)
- Part 6. Her Solitary Sons
- 45. Henry Adams: The Education of a Harvard Man (1856 and 1918)
- 46. W. E. Burghardt Du Bois: That Outer Whiter World of Harvard (c.1890)
- 47. Edwin Arlington Robinson: Beginning to Feel at Home (1891)