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Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows / Samuel Jay Keyser ; foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow.
- Title
- Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows / Samuel Jay Keyser ; foreword by Lawrence S. Bacow.
- Author
- Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | T171.M49 K3 2011 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxiii, 223 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Jay Keyser recounts his academic & administrative adventures during a career of more than 30 years at MIT.
- Subjects
- Biographies
- Cambridge (Mass.) > Biography
- Cambridge (Mass.) > Intellectual life
- College administrators > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography
- Linguistics > Study and teaching (Higher) > Massachusetts > Cambridge
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology > Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
- College department heads > Massachusetts > Cambridge > Biography
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Faculty > Biography
- Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Mens -- The wrecking ball -- The steps of Widener -- The making of a department head -- The life of a department head -- pt. 2. et mania -- To be or not to be a university -- Housemaster -- Pornography and free speech -- Hacking -- Role compliance -- "Don't tell me what to do" -- Apartheid -- The aftermath -- After the aftermath -- What's going on here? -- Recommendation -- A good university is a bad business -- They R us -- Chūshingura and catastrophes -- Hello, I must be going.
- ISBN
- 9780262015943 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262015943 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010043143
- OCLC
- 670248326
- SCSB-11226060
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library