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Wesleyan University, 1910-1970 :academic ambition and middle-class America /David B. Potts.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-314856

Description

xxiv, 677 pages ; 25 cm

Details

Descriptive Terms

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) History 20th century.
Education, Humanistic History 20th century.

Originator

Potts, David B. (David Bronson)

Contents

Fisher and fiduciaries -- On the road to recognition -- Membership in the Little Three -- Holding ground in hard times -- War as an agent of change -- "A new major American university" -- Hazards of new fortune -- Appendix 1: Presidencies, 1831 to present -- Appendix 2: Enrollments at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1910/90 -- Appendix 3: Endowment dollars per student at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1930/90.

Description

xxiv, 677 pages ; 25 cm

Notes

Companion volume to : Wesleyan University, 1831-1910: collegiate enterprise in New England (1992).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Complimentary copy, 2015.

ISBN

9780819575197
0819575194

Call Number

Stacks LD5901.W32 P683 2015

Places

United States

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