Man, science, learning, and education : the semicentennial lectures at Rice University / editor S. W. Higginbotham.
Contributor(s): Higginbotham, Sanford W
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BookSeries: Rice University semicentennial publications: ; Rice University studies: v. 49. Supplement 2 Publisher: [Houston, Tex.] : William Marsh Rice University, 1963Description: xiv, 254 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Rice University | Science -- Study and teaching | Education, Higher -- Study and teachingDDC classification: 378.73 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 378.73 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00160861 |
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Includes bibliographical references.
Changes in the United States position and outlook as a world power during the last half-century / Arnold Joseph Toynbee -- Test of a university / Brand Blanshard -- Sediments of ocean basins / Maurice Ewing -- Problems of engineering education in Japan / Sakae Yagi -- "All this for a song?" / Bertrand Harris Bronson -- Climate for design / John Lyon Reid -- Fifty years of physics and their consequences / George Paget Thomson -- Cultural common market? / Louis Landre -- Concept of steric stain in organic chemistry / Vladimir Prelog -- Scientific diversions / Geoffrey Ingram Taylor -- (Happy?) relations of public and private universities / Allen Nevins -- On the evolution of science in structural engineering / Fritz Stussi -- Horizons of life sciences / Albert Szent-Gyorgyi -- Frenchman's view of American education / Henri Maurice Peyre -- Computers and automation : progress and promise in the twentieth century / Claude Elwood Shannon -- United States as a "welfare state" / Jacob Viner -- Cauchy's problem / Jean Leray -- Human capacities / Margaret Mead.