Harry Huntt Ransom : intellect in motion /

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"Both a life story and a portrait of public higher education during the twentieth century, Harry Huntt Ransom captures the spirit of a dynamic individual who dedicated his talents to nurturing intellectual life in Texas and beyond. Tracing the details of Ransom's youth in Galveston and Ten...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gribben, Alan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Ransom, Harry Huntt, > 1908-1976.
Ransom, Harry Huntt, > 1908-1976
University of Texas at Austin > Biography.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center > History.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
Educators > United States > Biography.
Éducateurs > États-Unis > Biographies.
EDUCATION > Higher.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Educators
United States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Texas, Tennessee, travels
  • The scholar
  • The teacher
  • The bare fact of war
  • Climbing the administrative ladder
  • The rare books collection
  • The Texas quarterly
  • The rare books collection and the academic center
  • Vice president and provost
  • University president
  • The chancellor
  • Cambridge on the range
  • A university in transition
  • Prerogatives and protests
  • A chancellor's prophecies
  • Staying the course
  • "Mr. University"
  • Farewells
  • Legacies.

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