Berlin, The Mother of All Research Universities 1860-1918

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By by Charles E. McClelland ’62

Published March 12, 2021

 Berlin, The Mother of All Research Universities is the first major re-examination in English of the rise of the world’s pioneer modern research university. It presents an authoritative history of science, scholarship, and education to address the future of research universities.

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