Secretary'S Third Report Harvard Collage Class Of 1910 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789354214202)

A succinct ledger of Harvard's 1910 cohort. Records of a vanished era. Compiled as the class secretary's third report for Harvard College, this volume bridges an alumni report collection and a compact academic yearbook archive. It assembles formal returns, short biographical notes, professional addresses and contemporaneous observations that together map the social and professional pathways of a single graduating class. Part ledger, part social chronicle, the tone alternates from brisk administrative record to unexpectedly intimate detail - sometimes approaching an early 20th century memoir in tone - while remaining scrupulously documentary. Its blend of factual reporting and human texture makes it both immediate and instructive: students of Ivy League history, casual readers curious about campus life in the 1910s American college scene, and classic-literature collectors will find it absorbing; it also serves as a durable historical reference material. For genealogists and local historians the report is especially useful. As a genealogical research resource it preserves names, networks and career notes that can unlock family histories and situate individuals within larger institutional narratives. Libraries and private collectors who specialise in vintage educational records or collectors academic books will value the report as a primary source, and it functions naturally as a harvard class reunion book of record for the period. Scholars of higher education and social historians studying the decade before the Great War will also find primary-level evidence of careers, affiliations and collegiate culture. Useful in classrooms, exhibitions and private study, the report supplies concrete snapshots of educational ideals, professional mobility and the social networks that underpinned early modern American elites. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. An essential acquisition for libraries, archives and private collections worldwide.

Author: Unknown
ISBN-10: 9354214207
ISBN-13: 9789354214202
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Language: English
Published: 11/05/2020
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.93d