Reminiscences of Henry Merritt Wriston : oral history, 1967.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

Relations between the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Carnegie Corporation; trustee of the Foundation, 1933-55; president of Lawrence College, 1925-37, and of Brown University, 1937-50; Frederick Keppel; functions of the Corporation; evaluation of programs and studies; Pennsylvania Study; study in applied mathematics; Alger Hiss case; Harvard Russian Research Center. Impressions of Foundation and Corporation officers and trustees.

Subjects

• Brown University.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations.
• College presidents--Interviews.
• Education--Research.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Endowment of research.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Lawrence College.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Wriston, Henry M. (Henry Merritt), 1889-1978--Interviews.

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