By Jacques Barzun
"American larger schooling is lucky to have had a pupil and highbrow of Jacques Barzun's stature provide such a lot of years of provider to the day-by-day bread-and-butter information of operating an exceptional college after which proportion his reflections with us in a literate, humane, and fascinating book."--Charles Donovan, America
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