BRIDGES TO THE WORLD offers a fascinating account of the extraordinary life and times of Henry Noble MacCracken. Dr. MacCracken served as president of Vassar College for thirty-one years, beginning in 1915, and his influence far exceeded the confines of the campus. He fostered a host of educational ideas that impacted the larger educational world. When he died in 1970, The New York Times noted his pioneering efforts in "the fight to abolish academic formalism." MacCracken radically changed the "town-gown relations" between Vassar and the college's Hudson Valley neighbors, prompting Franklin Roosevelt to say, "Until MacCracken came to the college, Vasssar might just as well have been a thousand miles away."
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"Vibrantly chronicled" (Hudson Valley Magazine) "Fascinating story ... a labor of love" (Taconic Newspapers) "Daniels has spent years mining the rich lode of material about MacCracken and his era" -- Publisher Comments
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FELLOW SCHOLARS at New York University, Harvard, or Yale might have predicted that their colleague, Henry Noble MacCracken, would someday be one of the country's leading specialists on Lydgate, Chaucer, or Shakespeare, but they could hardly have foreseen that he would become an innovator in women's education. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence, Red Cross, Henry Noble, Eleanor Roosevelt, United States, Matthew Vassar, Mildred Thompson, New Haven, Smith College, Bryn Mawr, Hallie Flanagan, Second World Youth Congress, Constance Warren, Dutchess County, Julia Lathrop, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Seven Sisters, Vassar English, Yale University, Maria Mitchell, Carey Thomas, Federal Theatre, Main Building New!
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FELLOW SCHOLARS at New York University, Harvard, or Yale might have predicted that their colleague, Henry Noble MacCracken, would someday be one of the country's leading specialists on Lydgate, Chaucer, or Shakespeare, but they could hardly have foreseen that he would become an innovator in women's education. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence, Red Cross, Henry Noble, Eleanor Roosevelt, United States, Matthew Vassar, Mildred Thompson, New Haven, Smith College, Bryn Mawr, Hallie Flanagan, Second World Youth Congress, Constance Warren, Dutchess County, Julia Lathrop, Lucy Maynard Salmon, Seven Sisters, Vassar English, Yale University, Maria Mitchell, Carey Thomas, Federal Theatre, Main Building New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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