TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,Howard W.
AU  - Reed,John S.
TI  - Holding the Center: Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education
T2  - The MIT Press Series
SN  - 9780262276313
AV  - T171.M49 J62 1999 
U1  - 378.744/4 B 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Johnson, Howard Wesley,-1922-2009
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Presidents-Biography
KW  - Massachusetts Institute of Technology-History
KW  - College presidents-Massachusetts-Biography
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Holding the Center -- Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Growing Up in South Chicago during the -- Depression -- College and Going to War -- The University of Chicago after the War: -- Student and Faculty Member -- Becoming a Part of the Massachusetts -- Institute of Technology -- The School of Industrial Management -- Becomes the Sloan School -- Early Years as President of MIT -- Grim Years for the Nation and -- the Universities -- Education in the Midst of Turmoil: The -- Close of a Presidency -- Chairing the MIT Corporation and Other -- Challenges -- Boston s Museum of Fine Arts -- in a New Era -- MIT Goes On -- Coda: A Note for Students on Leadership -- Sources -- Registry of Names -- Index -- Picture Credits
N2  - Memoir of a former MIT President, as well as professor, corporate director, and advisor to American government agencies and to museums and foundations
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ER  -