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1 online resource : illustrations |
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JSTOR EBA
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1. Jefferson Seminary, 1798-1829; 2. ""First Among the Medical Schools of the West""; 3. From Frontier Academy to City College; 4. The Emergence of a University; 5. Civil War Travails; 6. Competition, Consolidation, and Reform; 7. The Late Nineteenth-Century Law School; 8. The Rebirth of the Liberal Arts College; 9. Campus and Academic Expansion; 10. President vs. Faculty; 11. Academic Respectability; 12. A Dream Deferred; 13. Famine, Flood, and War; 14. The ""Golden Age""?; 15. Statehood; 16. Student Unrest |
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17. Growing Pains18. An Agent for Change; 19. Looking Ahead, Looking Back; LOOKING AHEAD; LOOKING BACK; APPENDIX ONE: Deans of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Louisville; APPENDIX TWO: Louisville Municipal College Faculty Members, 1931-1951; NOTES; INDEX |
| Summary |
Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two hundred year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse. From the 1798 charter that established Jefferson Seminary to the 1998 opening of Papa John Stadium, Cox and Morison reveal the unique and fascinating history of the university's evolution. They discuss the early failures to establish a liberal arts college; tell the extraordinary story of the Louisville Municipal College, U of L's separate division for African Americans during the era of segregation; detail the political wrangling a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
University of Louisville -- History
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| SUBJECT |
University of Louisville fast |
| Subject |
EDUCATION -- Higher.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morison, William James, 1943-
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| LC no. |
99028299 |
| ISBN |
9780813157559 |
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0813157552 |
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