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A History of Cornell

  • Morris Bishop
  • Illustrator: Alison Mason Kingsbury
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2014
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This book conveys the unique character of the early university and establishes Cornell's wider significance as a case history in the development of higher education.

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    Frontmatter

    i
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    Contents

    vii
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    Illustrations

    xi
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    I. Prelude

    1
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    II. Ezra Cornell

    8
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    III. Andrew D. White

    29
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    IV. The Conception of a University

    50
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    V. The Making of a University

    69
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    VI. The Early Years: A Perambulation of the Campus

    91
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    VII. The Early Years: The Men

    99
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    VIII. The Early Years: The Boys

    121
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    IX. The Early Years: The Girls

    143
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    X. The Early Years: Instruction and Education

    153
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    XI. The Early Years: Triumphs and Trials

    180
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    XII. The Doubtful Years, 1876-1881

    197
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    XIII. The Great Will Case

    224
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    XIV. Reconstruction, 1881-1885

    233
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    XV. President Adams, 1885-189%

    254
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    XVI. Cornell under President Adams: The Business of Education

    269
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    XVII. Cornell under President Adams: The Teachers and the Taught

    286
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    XVIII. The Nineties: President Schurman and the State of New York

    303
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    XIX. The Nineties: Cornell Medical College

    317
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    XX. The Nineties: The Educational Machine

    322
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    XXI. The Nineties: Cornellians and Their Home

    332
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    XXII. The New Century: Cornell's Soul and Body

    351
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    XXIII. The New Century: The Rise of Agriculture

    364
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    XXIV. The New Century: Cornell Medical College

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    XXV. The New Century: The Other Colleges

    390
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    XXVI. The New Century: Prewar Cornellians

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    XXVII. The First War

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    XXVIII. Interregnum I, 1920-1921

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    XXIX. President Farrand- The Campus

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    XXX. President Farrand's Regime: Organization and Administration

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    XXXI. Cornell under President Farrand: Education

    468
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    XXXII. Cornell under President Farrand: Campus Life

    485
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    XXXIII. Cornell under President Farrand: Athletics

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    XXXIV. The Medical College-Retirement of President Farrand

    512
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    XXXV. Cornell under President Day: Prewar

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    XXXVI. Cornell under President Day: War

    538
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    XXXVII. Cornell under President Day: Postwar Administration

    554
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    XXXVIII. Cornell under President Day: Postwar Education and Research

    565
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    XXXIX. Cornell under President Day: The Postwar Student

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    XL. Interregnum II, 1949-1951

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    XLI. Cornell under President Malott

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    XLII. Postlude

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    Excursus I: President White in His Library

    617
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    Excursus II: Boring on Titchener

    621
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    Excursus III: Cornell Authors

    624
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    Acknowledgments and Bibliographical Note

    627
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    Index

    629

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
October 15, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9780801455384
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
680
Illustrations:
14
Line drawings:
14
Other:
14 line drawings, 7 halftones, 1 map
https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801455384
eBook ISBN: 9780801455384
Keywords for this book
U.S. History; Education & History Of Education; American Studies
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