The Lifting Gales of Spring
Australian Students at Harvard University (1876-1945)
Will be published approx. on 29. September 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
236 pages
978-0-674-30601-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Lifting Gales of Spring tells the stories of the eighty students from Australia who attended Harvard University, from the first student to enroll at Harvard Medical School in 1876, before Australia was a country, through the end of World War II, after which Australian contacts with Harvard dramatically increased. It includes Steve O'Donnell, a boilermaker from Sydney who became a boxing instructor at Harvard and taught T. S. Eliot how to box. The title references a poem by Ernest George Moll describing his time at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-674-30601-1 (9780674306011)
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Person
David Haig is the author of From Darwin to Derrida: Selfish Genes, Social Selves, and the Meanings of Life. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is George Putnam Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.