Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Tom Brown's School Days
Author: Thomas HughesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The University of Chicago
Author: John W. BoyerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226835316
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 785
Book Description
An expanded narrative of the rich, unique history of the University of Chicago. One of the most influential institutions of higher learning in the world, the University of Chicago has a powerful and distinct identity, and its name is synonymous with intellectual rigor. With nearly 170,000 alumni living and working in more than one hundred and fifty countries, its impact is far-reaching and long-lasting. With The University of Chicago: A History, John W. Boyer, Dean of the College from 1992 to 2023, thoroughly engages with the history and the lived politics of the university. Boyer presents a history of a complex academic community, focusing on the nature of its academic culture and curricula, the experience of its students, its engagement with Chicago’s civic community, and the resources and conditions that have enabled the university to sustain itself through decades of change. He has mined the archives, exploring the school’s complex and sometimes controversial past to set myth and hearsay apart from fact. Boyer’s extensive research shows that the University of Chicago’s identity is profoundly interwoven with its history, and that history is unique in the annals of American higher education. After a little-known false start in the mid-nineteenth century, it achieved remarkable early successes, yet in the 1950s it faced a collapse of undergraduate enrollment, which proved fiscally debilitating for decades. Throughout, the university retained its fierce commitment to a distinctive, intense academic culture marked by intellectual merit and free debate, allowing it to rise to international acclaim. Today it maintains a strong obligation to serve the larger community through its connections to alumni, to the city of Chicago, and increasingly to its global community. Boyer’s tale is filled with larger-than-life characters—John D. Rockefeller, Robert Maynard Hutchins, and many other famous figures among them—and episodes that reveal the establishment and rise of today’s institution. Newly updated, this edition extends through the presidency of Robert Zimmer, whose long tenure was marked by significant developments and controversies over subjects as varied as free speech, medical inequity, and community relations.
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsReport of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Haunts of the White City: Ghost Stories from the World’s Fair, the Great Fire and Victorian Chicago
Author: Ursula BielskiPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467139653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"At the close of the nineteenth century, Chicago offered the world a glimpse of humanity's most breathtaking possibilities and its most jaw-dropping horrors. Even as the White City emerged from the ashes of the Great Fire, serial killers like H.H. Holmes stalked the sparkling new boulevards and tragic accidents plagued the factories, slums and railroads that powered the churn of industrial innovation. Demons, mesmerists and birds of ill omen preyed on the unwary from the shadows. Ship captains spoke to the dead, while undertakers discovered reanimated corpses no longer requiring services. From posh mansions built on massacre grounds to the drowned quarries of a forest preserve, Ursula Bielski follows the dark undercurrents beneath the electric lights of the World's Fair."--
Catalogue of the Michigan State Library, for the Years 1881-2
Author: Michigan State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Illinois Libraries
Author: Katharine Lucinda SharpPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
The University Studies
Author: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Collembola
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description