Reminiscences of William Harold Cowley : oral history, 1962.

Biographical Note

Educator.

Scope and Contents

Brooklyn childhood and education; American Steel and Wire Company; YMCA work, night school, Mt. Hermon, Clark School; Dartmouth, 1920-24; Western Electric Company; graduate work, Chicago, 1925-27; Board of Vocational Guidance and Placement, 1927; Ohio State University, Bureau of Educational Research, 1929-38; editing JOURNAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION; residential housing study, administering National Youth Administration, state educational conferences, bibliographic work; Carnegie Corporation; student personnel work; American Council on Education; President, Hamilton College, 1938-44; admissions and curriculum studies; Washington, 1942, role of education in war effort; Air Force programs at Hamilton; Professor of Higher Education, Stanford, from 1945; work with graduate students, fundamental concepts. Impressions of noted educators, including W.W. Charters, Robert Hutchins, Frederick Keppel, J.L. Morrill, James B. Conant, Harold Dodds.

Subjects

• American Council on Education.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• College presidents--Interviews.
• Cowley, W. H. (William Harold), 1899-1978.
• Education, Higher.
• Education--Vocational guidance.
• Education and state.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Grinager, Patricia, 1918-1999, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)
• Interviews.
• Ohio State University. Bureau of Educational Research and Service.
• Oral histories.
• Stanford University.
• World War, 1939-1945--Education and the war.
• YMCA of the USA.

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