University builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the founding of the Rice Institute
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Main Author: Boles, John B. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge, La. Louisiana State University Press ©2007
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-281) and index
Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871?1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged, almost from its founding in 1912, as one of America's best universities, Rice is distinguished as both the smallest and the youngest institution in the top tier of American universities. In telling the tale of Lovett and his innovative, enduring vision for Rice, John Boles provides both a compell
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Dual Beginnings; CHAPTER TWO: Farewell to Princeton; CHAPTER THREE: The Grand Tour; Illustrations; CHAPTER FOUR: The Launching of the New University; CHAPTER FIVE: Academic Administration in Peacetime and War; CHAPTER SIX: Steadying the Course in the Roaring Twenties; CHAPTER SEVEN: Confronting the Great Depression; CHAPTER EIGHT: War, Stress, Change, and Promise; CHAPTER NINE: Full Circle: Retirement, Transition, Renewed Momentum; Acknowledgments; Note on Sources; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 295 pages)
ISBN:0807135224
9780807135228

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