Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
Lord Rutherford once said that a research investigation had three stages: starting it, finishing it and publishing it. This publication is Sir Louis Matheson’s personal account of an enterprise that had many of the characteristics of a research project – the establishment of Monash University.
After graduating from Manchester University in 1932 Sir Louis had some years in industry and then joined the staff of the University of Birmingham. In 1947 he became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Melbourne and in 1951 Beyer Professor of Engineering at Manchester.
In 1960 he returned to Melbourne as founding vice-chancellor of the newly-established Monash University, the first of the many universities to be created in Australia in the sixties and seventies.
Still Learning describes the hopes, intentions and plans of the vice-chancellor and his colleagues as they worked to provide opportunities in tertiary education for thousands of school leavers for whom there was no room in the existing university and colleges. By 1970, Monash had more than ten thousand students, a rate of growth that has seldom been equalled.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – general wear, some yellowing to pages, signed by author.
Publisher: The Macmillan Company of Australia
Year: 1980
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 180pp
ISBN: 0333298861
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