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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: List of Ivy League University Presidents, Jim Yong Kim, John George Kemeny, James O. Freedman, Eleazar Wheelock, John Sloan Dickey, John Wheelock, Ernest Fox Nichols, William Jewett Tucker, David T. Mclaughlin, Francis Brown, Ernest Martin Hopkins, Asa Dodge Smith, Nathan Lord, James Wright, Samuel Colcord Bartlett, Bennet Tyler, Daniel Dana. Excerpt:The Rev. Asa Dodge Smith D.D., L.L.D. (September 21, 1804 August 16, 1877) served as the 7th president of Dartmouth College from 1863 until his death in 1877. Dartmouth Presidency After the forced resignation of Nathan Lord in 1863 over his support for slavery, the Trustees wanted a more conservative president to take his place. As a preacher for 29 years at the 14th Street Presbyterian Church in New York City , Asa Dodge had developed a reputation as a religious man with abolitionist beliefs. Smith's presidency was a period of great growth for the College, including the establishment of two new schools within Dartmouth. The New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts , later moved to Durham, New Hampshire and renamed the University of New Hampshire , was originally founded in Hanover in 1866. One year later, the Thayer School of Engineering was founded. Over the course of his presidency, enrollment at the College was more than doubled, the number of scholarships increased from 42 to 103, and Dartmouth benefited from several important bequests. Legacy Asa Dodge's son, William Thayer Smith (1839-1909) served as Dean of the Medical School from 1896 until his death in 1909 and was the first dean to give the name "Dartmouth Medical School " to the organization which had until then never had a consistent name. He was also the first person to perform a surgery in the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital . He was a Dartmouth M... ... Read more

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Chapters: John George Kemeny, Rocky Mountain BASIC, Basic4GL, Thomas Eugene Kurtz, PBASIC, Brutus2D, Vilnius BASIC, MacBASIC, Blitz Research, THEOS Multi-User Basic, BASIC-11, Tymshare SuperBasic, Bsisith, Tiger-BASIC,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 47. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: John George Kemeny (Hungarian: ) (May 31, 1926, Budapest - December 26, 1992, New Hampshire), was a Hungarian American mathematician, computer scientist, and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas E. Kurtz. He also served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College 1970 to 1981 and pioneered the use of computers in college education. Kemeny chaired the presidential commission that investigated the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. John Kemeny was born in Budapest, Hungary on May 31, 1926. Kemeny attended primary school in Budapest. In 1938 his father left for the United States alone. In 1940, he took the whole Kemeny family to the United States when Hungary's invasion by Nazi Germany became imminent. His grandfather, however, refused to leave and perished in the Holocaust, along with an aunt and uncle. Kemeny's family settled in New York City where he attended George Washington High School. He graduated with the best results in his class three years later. In 1943 Kemeny entered Princeton University where he studied mathematics and philosophy, but he took a year off during his studies to work on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos National Laboratory. His boss there was Richard Feynman. He also worked there with John von Neumann. Returning to Princeton, Kemeny graduated with his B.A. in 1947, then worked for his doctorate under Alonzo Church. He worked as Einstein's mathematical assistant during graduate school. Kemeny was awarded his doctorate in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=588721 ... Read more

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