Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities in Europe, providing a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].

In this history of the Johns Hopkins University, Hawkins tells the story of establishment and development of one of the most distinguished institutions of higher education in the United States. (Education/Teaching)

Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his father s job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. Before he turned twelve the family had lived in three Rock Island towns: Herington, Kansas; Goodland, Kansas; and finally El Reno, Oklahoma. Such was the life of a railwayman s son during the Great Depression. In this warm and thoughtful memoir, Hawkins paints a portrait of a middle-class family s traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s. I can't remember the last time I used the words lovely and marvelous to describe a book, but surely...

THE ROOKIE BOOKIE Earl Tarkman was a mathematical genius and knew how to run a gambling ring. Earl was hoping for a football or baseball scholarship from a big university program, and his goal was to make a quarter million dollars from the ring so he would not have to work while he attended University. When his staff runs into the newly arrived "Mafia," he finds out his organization is no match for these criminals. It is not too long before the Mafia catches wind of Earl's ring and he is forced to join them. Torn by his sense of right and wrong, Earl ventures through life trying to find a way...