19th century students
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academic biographies
academic migration
australia harvard history
australian americans
australian diaspora
australian students
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ernest george moll
evolution biology professor
forthcoming
graduate school of arts and sciences
harvard alumni
harvard medical school
higher education history
international education
study abroad history
transnational history
ts eliot
world war ii era
Product details
- ISBN 9780674306011
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
