Holding the Center -- Memoirs of a Life in Higher Education -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Growing Up in South Chicago during the -- Depression -- College and Going to War -- The University of Chicago after the War: -- Student and Faculty Member -- Becoming a Part of the Massachusetts -- Institute of Technology -- The School of Industrial Management -- Becomes the Sloan School -- Early Years as President of MIT -- Grim Years for the Nation and -- the Universities -- Education in the Midst of Turmoil: The -- Close of a Presidency -- Chairing the MIT Corporation and Other -- Challenges -- Boston s Museum of Fine Arts -- in a New Era -- MIT Goes On -- Coda: A Note for Students on Leadership -- Sources -- Registry of Names -- Index -- Picture Credits.