Reminiscences of Henry Merritt Wriston : oral history, 1967.

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Reminiscences of Henry Merritt Wriston : oral history, 1967.

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.

Transcript: 219 leaves.Tape: 2 reels.

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