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Hutchins' university : a memoir of the University of Chicago, 1929-1950 /
The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1991.
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| Colección: | Centennial Publications of the U of C Pr.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The inauguration of Robert Maynard Hutchins as the fifth President of the University of Chicago in 1929 coincided with a drastically changed social and economic climate throughout the world. And Hutchins himself opened an era of tumultuous reform and debate within the University. In the midst of the changes Hutchins started and the intense feelings they stirred, William H. McNeill arrived at the University to pursue his education. In Hutchins' University he tells what it was like to come of age as a undergraduate in those heady times. Hutchins' scathing opposition to the departmentalization of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 194 pages, [12] pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (171-183) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226561721 0226561720 9780226561707 0226561704 1282537520 9781282537521 9786612537523 6612537523 |