The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays /

The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays / / Harry Huntt Ransom; ed. by Hazel H. Ransom.

In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the best in the nation. No one had more to do with that extraordinary achievement than Harry Huntt Ransom. From 1935 to his death in 1976, he served the Univer...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
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Ransom, Harry Huntt,
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Ransom, Hazel H.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©1982
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (120 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Harry Huntt Ransom: Biographical Sketch
  • Preface
  • The Conscience of the University
  • The Conscience of the University
  • The Steel Glass of Education
  • Varieties of Ignorance
  • Educational Resources in Texas
  • Education and the Electric Clock
  • Students in the Singular
  • The Rediscovery of Teaching
  • Teaching and Research
  • Personality and Impersonality in Academic Life
  • The Arts of Uncertainty
  • News and Truth
  • The Educations of a Doctor
  • The Collection of Knowledge in Texas
  • The Public Library and Private Welfare
  • The Collector and Copyright
  • Fact and Artifact : Memory and Understanding
  • University Presses
  • Development of Research Collections at The University of Texas

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