Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows

Publication Data

• Title Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows
• Author Samuel Jay Keyser
• Publisher MIT Press
• Publication date 2011
• Publication location Cambridge, Mass.
• Language English

Contents

pt. 1. Mens
The wrecking ball
The steps of Widener
The making of a department head
The life of a department head
pt. 2. et mania
To be or not to be a university
Housemaster
Pornography and free speech
Hacking
Role compliance
"Don't tell me what to do"
Apartheid
The aftermath
After the aftermath
What's going on here?
Recommendation
Hello, I must be going
They R us
A good university is a bad business
Chūshingura and catastrophes.

Topics

• Keyser, Samuel Jay, 1935-
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology :: Faculty :: Biography
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
• College administrators :: Massachusetts :: Cambridge :: Biography
• College department heads :: Massachusetts :: Cambridge :: Biography
• Linguistics :: Study and teaching (Higher) :: Massachusetts :: Cambridge
• Cambridge (Mass.) :: Biography
• Cambridge (Mass.) :: Intellectual life
• Cambridge (Mass.)

Mens et mania : the MIT nobody knows by Samuel Jay Keyser. ISBN 9780262015943. Published by MIT Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.