Oral history interview with Harold W. Dodds 1968
Oral history interview with Harold W. Dodds 1968
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- Name
- Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980 (Interviewee)
- Grossner, Isabel S (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Harold W. Dodds 1968
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Harold W. Dodds : oral history, 1968
- Abstract
- Appointment as President of Princeton University, 1933; election to board of Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1935; establishment of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), 1936; membership in American Association of Universities; AAU report on communism and academic freedom; Southern college program; Carnegie college success study; serving on Brown University President Henry M. Wriston’s college reform committee, 1952-1953; departure from Carnegie, 1955; retirement from Princeton; Carnegie-sponsored visit to Australia, 1957. Impressions of Henry M. Wriston, John W. Gardner, D.C. Josephs, Francis Keppel.
- Collection Name
- Carnegie Corporation project. Part 1
- Subjects
- College presidents; Graduate Record Examination; Dodds, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1889-1980; Wriston, Henry M. (Henry Merritt), 1889-1978; Carnegie Corporation of New York; Princeton University; Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Association of American Universities
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Origin Information
- 1968
- Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- sound files : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit); 75 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- President, Princeton University; Trustee, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction of audio funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Audio digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010.
- Interviewed by Isabel S. Grossner on June 17, 1968.
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7521400
- Also In
- Carnegie Corporation of New York Digital Archive
- Copyright Status
- In Copyright
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-0xzn-m778
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.