Reminiscences of Harold W. Dodds : oral history, 1968.

Biographical Note

President, Princeton University; Trustee, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Scope and Contents

Appointment as President of Princeton University, 1933; election to board of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1935; establishment of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), 1936; membership in Association of American Universities; AAU report on communism and academic freedom; Southern college program; Carnegie college success study; serving on Brown University President Henry M. Wriston’s college reform committee, 1952-1953; departure from Carnegie, 1955; retirement from Princeton; Carnegie-sponsored visit to Australia, 1957. Impressions of Henry M. Wriston, John W. Gardner, D.C. Josephs, Francis Keppel.

Subjects

• Association of American Universities.
• Carnegie Corporation of New York.
• Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
• College presidents--Interviews.
• Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980--Interviews.
• Educational change.
• Graduate Record Examination.
• Grossner, Isabel S., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Princeton University.
• Wriston, Henry M. (Henry Merritt), 1889-1978.