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  • University College

    A Portrait, 1853-1953

    Edited by Claude Bissell ...
    Series series Heritage
    For a century University College has had a profound and continuous influence on the cultural development of Canada. The authors of this volume show us University College as a political and educational institution; as a physical structure that has aroused admiration and scholarly curiosity; as the home of a long line of great teachers and scholars, and of a student body diverse in its origins and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Harold Adams Innis

    Portrait of a Scholar

    Series series Heritage
    Harold Adams Innis died a quarter century ago. At the time of his death in 1952 he was Canada's pre-eminent scholar in the field of the social sciences. His reputation was based on his monumental contributions to Canadian economic history and the role of the means of communication in shaping history. As so often happens, his ideas were not greatly followed up, except by Marshall McLuhan, for some ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Three Lectures

    University of Toronto Installation Lectures, 1958

    Series series Heritage
    Hundreds were turned away from these lectures given on the day of the installation of Dr. Claude Bissell as President of the University of Toronto. Professor Frye spoke on "Humanities in a New World"; Professor Kluckhohn on "The Scientific Study of Values"; and Professor V.B. Wigglesworth on "Science: Pure and Applied". ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The University and Business

    Edited by Douglas Grant ...
    Series series Heritage
    The university today has to accept the responsibility of seeing that those entering business receive the training most advantageous not only to their careers but also to society itself, in which the businessman to-day plays such a significant part. But business in its turn must shoulder a greater share of the responsibility for supporting the university. The essays in this volume help to explore ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Undergraduate Essay

    Series series Heritage
    The Undergraduate Essay sets before the student examples of writing from which he can learn what to do and why. Part I of this book consists of six complete essays of average undergraduate length. All are specimens rather than models; these essays are well-written, but they are not faultless. In Part II, the authors define and discuss the principles of sound essay writing by considering in turn ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • A Bibliography of Higher Education in Canada / Bibliographie de L'Enseignement Supérieur au Canada

    Series series Heritage
    This bibliography is the first of a series of studies about higher education in Canada sponsored by the committee on the History of Higher Education in Canada established by the National Conference of Canadian Universities. Among its nearly 4,000 entries are included the books, pamphlets, theses, dissertations, and articles in journals and magazines which supply the context and commentary on the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Sidney Earle Smith

    Series series Heritage
    The career of Sidney Earle Smith, Dean of Law, Dalhousie University (1929-34), President of the University of Manitoba (1934-44), President of the University of Toronto (1945-59), had a variety of backgrounds which were significant in determining his impressive achievement in Canada's humanistic tradition. He was reared in the vigorous landscape and living of the Maritimes, rigorously trained in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Design for Learning

    Reports Submitted to the Joint Committee of the Toronto Board of Education and the University of Toronto

    Edited by Northrop Frye ...
    Series series Heritage
    This important book is the result of a study of school curriculum undertaken by a joint committee of the University of Toronto and the Board of Education for the City of Toronto. Three sub-committees, dealing with English, Social Science, and Physical Science, here present preliminary reports which indicate the need for perpetual study if the school curriculum is to be kept abreast of modern ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The University and the New World

    York University Invitation Lecture Series

    Series series Heritage
    This is the first volume in the Invitation Lecture Series of York University and it is an auspicious beginning. Three leaders in higher education in the United States here present their thoughts on challenging questions of enrolment, curriculum, and standards which today confront the ever expanding universities of North America. Professor Jones describes "The Idea of a University Once More"; ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Imagination and the University

    Series series Heritage
    This volume, the Frank Gerstein Lectures for 1963, is the second series of Invitation Lectures to be delivered at York University. The theme “Imagination and the University” was appropriate for, as President Murray Ross states in this Foreword, it is in its early years that a university is sufficiently flexible to utilize imagination in its structure and in its curriculum. York University was in ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Research Compendium

    Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962

    Series series Heritage
    This book represents an important contribution by the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. It is a record of a carefully designed plan to include a worthwhile research experience in the educational programme of every student engaged in graduate education for the profession. In the introductory essay Dr. Albert Rose explains the methods by which this educational objective has been ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Supplement 1965 to A Bibliography of Higher Education in Canada / Supplément 1965 de Bibliographie de L'Enseighnement Supérieur au Canada

    by Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    This Supplement to the 1960 Bibliography by Harris and Tremblay adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 4,000 listed in the first volume, providing a full list of articles, books, pamphlets, and theses bearing on all aspects of higher education in Canada for the period 1959-1963. The organization of the earlier volume has been maintained with slight modifications, and some new sections have ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Variational Methods for Eigenvalue Problems

    An Introduction to the Weinstein Method of Intermediate Problems (Second Edition)

    by S. H. Gould ...
    Series series Heritage
    The first edition of this book gave a systematic exposition of the Weinstein method of calculating lower bounds of eigenvalues by means of intermediate problems. From the reviews of this edition and from subsequent shorter expositions it has become clear that the method is of considerable interest to the mathematical world; this interest has increased greatly in recent years by the success of some ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • On Higher Education

    Five Lectures

    Edited by D.F. Dadson ...
    Series series Heritage
    During the session of 1964-65, the Ontario College of Education sponsored this series of lectures on Higher Education. The first two lectures in the volume, by Robin Harris, Principal of Innis College, and Professor of Higher Education are entitled "The Establishment of a Provincial University in Ontario" and "The Evolution of a Provincial System of Higher Education in Ontario." They provide a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Systems and Computer Science

    Proceedings of a Conference held at the University of Western Ontario September 10-11, 1965

    Edited by John Hart, Satoru Takasu ...
    Series series Heritage
    This book presents the papers delivered at the Conference on Systems and Computer Science held at the University of Western Ontario in September 1965. The primary purposes of the Conference were the promotion of research and the development of the teaching of computer science in Canadian universities. The papers focus attention on some of the concepts of Computer Science as a new field of study ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • On University Freedom in the Canadian Context

    by Kenneth Hare ...
    Series series Heritage
    The universities of Canada are now expanding rapidly and becoming very costly to run and equip. Increasingly the bill is borne by the public exchequers, federal and provincial. What then should be the proper relationship between government and universities if university freedom is to be preserved? This book, based on the Plaunt Lectures given at Carleton University in 1967, discusses the various ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • British Universities

    Purpose and Prospects

    by Sydney Caine ...
    Series series Heritage
    Since the last war there have been enormous increases in the numbers of universities and of students. Yet it tends to be assumed that the concepts which were valid for the dozen or so universities and the tens of thousands of students of the 1900's are still valid for the fifty universities and the hundreds of thousands of students of today.Sir Sydney Caine was Director of the London School of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nursing Education in a Changing Society

    Edited by Mary Innis ...
    Series series Heritage
    Rapid social change and the advances made in the field of health care have greatly changed the role and function of the nurse in the last fifty years. Nursing is now almost a full-fledged profession.This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Nursing of the University of Toronto. The field it covers is wide and varied – from care of the sick by the nuns of early Quebec to the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Post-secondary and Adult Education

    Ontario's Educative Society, Volume IV

    by W.G. Fleming ...
    Series series Heritage
    Post-secondary education is one of the fastest growing segments of the educational system. In this volume the development and activities of universities, colleges of applied arts and technology, and other institutions of post-secondary education are described in detail. The public and private training activities of business and industry are outlined, and government programs for adult retraining ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Bibliography of Higher Education in Canada Supplement 1971 / Bibliographie de l'enseignement superieur au Canada Supplement 1971

    by Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    The 1971 Supplement adds some 3,500 entries to the approximately 7,000 listed in the original volume and the 1965 Supplement. Like its predecessors this volume provides a full list of the secondary sources related to Canadian higher education – books, articles, theses, dissertations, and reports published from 1964 to 1969. The reporting and arrangement of entries remains the same in the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Supporting Institutions and Services

    Ontario's Educative Society, Volume V

    by W.G. Fleming ...
    Series series Heritage
    A variety of institutions and activities including the training of teachers, research and development, and educational television services are discussed in this volume. It describes in detail the creation and growth of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and its research activities, and gives an account of the educational activities of institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum, the ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • On the Idea of a University

    by J.M. Cameron ...
    Series series Heritage
    Starting from Newman`s concept of the university as a place of liberal education, Professor Cameron examines how today`s university functions, what its aims should be and what its strengths and deficiencies are, and presents some proposals for reform. He argues that liberal education, in which knowledge is pursued for its own sake as well as for the advantages it may bring, should remain the core ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Cold Iron and Lady Godiva

    Engineering Education at Toronto 1920-1972

    Edited by Ian Montagnes, Robin Harris ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto is celebrating its 100th anniversary. This informal volume concentrates on the last half century. It examines the development of the Faculty and of its undergraduate and alumni organizations; the changing undergraduate scene since 1920, through a depression, the return of soldiers to university after two world wars, and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Halfway up Parnassus

    A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

    Series series Heritage
    Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD