Down, don, down
John Sutherland, 6 August 1992
Decline of Donnish Dominion
by A.H. Halsey.
Oxford, 344 pp., £40, March 1992,0 19 827376 2 Show More
by A.H. Halsey.
Oxford, 344 pp., £40, March 1992,
Millikan’s School: A History of the California Institute of Technology
by Judith Goodstein.
Norton, 317 pp., £17.95, October 1991,0 393 03017 2 Show More
by Judith Goodstein.
Norton, 317 pp., £17.95, October 1991,
“... classroom discussion and grading is done by Teaching Assistants (typically, graduate students). Judith Goodstein narrates the history of Caltech with much lively anecdote and a courageous attention to the blemishes on its record (the anti-semitism which tarnished Millikan’s golden reign in the Twenties and Thirties, for instance). One concludes that ... ”
