Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Nineteenth Annual Catalogue of the University of Chicago, Including the Union College of Law
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The University of Chicago
Author: John W. BoyerPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226835316
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 785
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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.
A History of Chicago, Volume II
Author: Bessie Louise PiercePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226668401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The first major history of Chicago ever written, A History of Chicago covers the city’s great history over two centuries, from 1673 to 1893. Originally conceived as a centennial history of Chicago, the project became, under the guidance of renowned historian Bessie Louise Pierce, a definitive, three-volume set describing the city’s growth—from its humble frontier beginnings to the horrors of the Great Fire, the construction of some of the world’s first skyscrapers, and the opulence of the 1893 World’s Fair. Pierce and her assistants spent over forty years transforming historical records into an inspiring human story of growth and survival. Rich with anecdotal evidence and interviews with the men and women who made Chicago great, all three volumes will now be available for the first time in years. A History of Chicago will be essential reading for anyone who wants to know this great city and its place in America. “With this rescue of its history from the bright, impressionable newspapermen and from the subscription-volumes, Chicago builds another impressive memorial to its coming of age, the closing of its first ‘century of progress.’”—E. D. Branch, New York Times (1937)
Fourteenth Annual Catalogue of the University of Chicago
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Sixteenth Annual Catalogue of the University of Chicago
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: 移民問題
Author: First Annual Catalogue of the University of Chicago
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Eighth Annual Catalogue of the University of Chicago
Author: University of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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