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- catalog abstract "This volume is a collection of the speeches and writings of Neil Rudenstine delivered or written between 1991 and 2001. President Rudenstine delivered the speeches at events both within and without Harvard's walls. Events included commencements and convocations, honorary degree and other award ceremonies, anniversaries, building dedications, exhibition openings, conferences and meetings, and memorial services. Other works in this volume are testimony before Congress and open letters and statements to the Harvard community.".
- catalog alternative "Reflections on Harvard and higher education, 1991-2001".
- catalog contributor b12095551.
- catalog contributor b12095552.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "An education: Reaching out -- The act of reading -- Designed to be a genuine community -- A labyrinthine collegiate climb -- Keeping our memory accurate -- Intensity and form (Sydney Freedberg) -- Something luminous (Harry Levin) -- Consequential minds and presences -- Passion as task -- Self-education.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Neil L. Rudenstine (b. 1935) began his service as President of Harvard University on July 1, 1991. In May of 2000, he announced that he would leave Harvard at the end of the 2000/2001 academic year.".
- catalog description "Science and technology: New technologies and their promise for higher education -- The fruits of science and serendipity -- Our pursuit of science and health -- This astonishing technological phenomenon.".
- catalog description "The arts and humanities: The challenging nature of the humanities -- A perpetual visual motion machine -- Melodic transgressions (John Harbison) -- Testing the limits (Ellsworth Kelly) -- Firmly grounded ideas -- A continuing conversation.".
- catalog description "The enduring university: The values of education.".
- catalog description "The professions, community, and public service: The changing professions -- A mind as it reasons (Kathleen Sullivan) -- Leading medical education -- Landscape architecture at Harvard -- Servant of the public good (Alan Greenspan) -- Celebrating courage and commitment -- A sympathetic imagination (Justice Margaret Marshall) -- Casting and recasting -- Contributing to the life of our community.".
- catalog description "The university and diversity: Diversity and learning at Harvard -- Free expression in a diverse society -- Sustaining an inclusive vision -- Persevering -- University debate and freedom of speech -- Access and affordability -- Some essential institutional values.".
- catalog description "The worlds of Harvard: Pointing our thoughts -- Integrating knowledge -- A spirit not to be quenched (Thomas Dudley Cabot) -- Deeds, not creeds (John Loeb) -- A lifetime of service and care (Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.) -- Her own poetics (Judith Nisse Shklar) -- Our lean Galbraithian hero (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- Thou art a wonder gome (Reverend Peter Gomes) -- This singular place -- A class by itself.".
- catalog description "Thinking internationally: Engaging global realities -- Indigenously American but simultaneously global -- Exchanging differences -- A democrat who has learned from a king (Nelson Mandela) -- Pitching into commitments (David Rockefeller) -- Transforming situations (Yitzhak Rabin) -- A major turning point in international studies.".
- catalog description "This volume is a collection of the speeches and writings of Neil Rudenstine delivered or written between 1991 and 2001. President Rudenstine delivered the speeches at events both within and without Harvard's walls. Events included commencements and convocations, honorary degree and other award ceremonies, anniversaries, building dedications, exhibition openings, conferences and meetings, and memorial services. Other works in this volume are testimony before Congress and open letters and statements to the Harvard community.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 377 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Pointing our thoughts.".
- catalog identifier "0674007255".
- catalog identifier "9780674007253".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pointing our thoughts.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University,".
- catalog relation "Pointing our thoughts.".
- catalog subject "Education, Higher.".
- catalog subject "Enseignement supérieur.".
- catalog subject "Harvard University.".
- catalog subject "LD2148.R83 R83 2001".
- catalog subject "Rudenstine, Neil L.".
- catalog tableOfContents "An education: Reaching out -- The act of reading -- Designed to be a genuine community -- A labyrinthine collegiate climb -- Keeping our memory accurate -- Intensity and form (Sydney Freedberg) -- Something luminous (Harry Levin) -- Consequential minds and presences -- Passion as task -- Self-education.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Science and technology: New technologies and their promise for higher education -- The fruits of science and serendipity -- Our pursuit of science and health -- This astonishing technological phenomenon.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The arts and humanities: The challenging nature of the humanities -- A perpetual visual motion machine -- Melodic transgressions (John Harbison) -- Testing the limits (Ellsworth Kelly) -- Firmly grounded ideas -- A continuing conversation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The enduring university: The values of education.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The professions, community, and public service: The changing professions -- A mind as it reasons (Kathleen Sullivan) -- Leading medical education -- Landscape architecture at Harvard -- Servant of the public good (Alan Greenspan) -- Celebrating courage and commitment -- A sympathetic imagination (Justice Margaret Marshall) -- Casting and recasting -- Contributing to the life of our community.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The university and diversity: Diversity and learning at Harvard -- Free expression in a diverse society -- Sustaining an inclusive vision -- Persevering -- University debate and freedom of speech -- Access and affordability -- Some essential institutional values.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The worlds of Harvard: Pointing our thoughts -- Integrating knowledge -- A spirit not to be quenched (Thomas Dudley Cabot) -- Deeds, not creeds (John Loeb) -- A lifetime of service and care (Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.) -- Her own poetics (Judith Nisse Shklar) -- Our lean Galbraithian hero (John Kenneth Galbraith) -- Thou art a wonder gome (Reverend Peter Gomes) -- This singular place -- A class by itself.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Thinking internationally: Engaging global realities -- Indigenously American but simultaneously global -- Exchanging differences -- A democrat who has learned from a king (Nelson Mandela) -- Pitching into commitments (David Rockefeller) -- Transforming situations (Yitzhak Rabin) -- A major turning point in international studies.".
- catalog title "Pointing our thoughts : reflections on Harvard and higher education, 1991-2001 / Neil L. Rudenstine ; foreword by Hanna Holborn Gray.".
- catalog title "Reflections on Harvard and higher education, 1991-2001".
- catalog type "text".