Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience by Andrew Schlesinger

Veritas: Harvard College and the American Experience

Andrew Schlesinger

318 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction education history informative reflective medium-paced
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When Josiah Quincy adopted the word veritas (meaning truth) as Harvard's motto in the mid-nineteenth century, he saw the mission of the college as seeking new knowledge in order to come closer to God. It was a radical proposition. The imperatives ...

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