Free Spirit A Biography of Mason Welch Gross.

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"Mason W. Gross, philosopher, educator, athlete, and musician, was inaugurated as president of Rutgers in 1959, when American universities were seen as the key to America's future success. Within ten years, during the turbulent sixties, with its struggles over civil rights and the Vietnam...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gross, Thomas W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Gross, Mason Welch, > 1911-1977.
Gross, Mason Welch, > 1911-1977
Rutgers University > Presidents > Biography.
Rutgers University > History > 20th century.
Rutgers University
1900-1999
Presidents
Mason Welch Gross, Biography, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers, Rutgers University, professor, teacher, philosophy, university, history, Education, memoir, public university, Red Scare, civil rights movement, civil rights era, Vietnam War, public figure, faculty, Mason Gross School of the Arts, scarlet knights, academia, higher education, college, research university.
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • 1 Prologue: The Inauguration, 1959
  • 2 Postmark: Willcox, Arizona, 1928
  • 3 Postmark: Cambridge, England, 1930
  • 4 The Blind Date, 1939
  • 5 Postmark: Somewhere in Italy, 1944
  • 6 The Homecoming, 1945
  • 7 Goodbye to New York, 1946
  • 8 In the Second Chair, 1949
  • 9 Rutgers v. the Red Scare, 1954
  • 10 Philosophy of Education v. the "Big Lie"
  • 11 The Inauguration, 1959
  • 12 Into the Fishbowl, 1959
  • 13 The Cultural Wasteland, 1959
  • 14 Nothing at Rutgers Was Ever Easy
  • 15 Crisis, 1961
  • 16 Faith and Reason
  • 17 Score Once More, 1965
  • 18 The Inflection Point, 1965
  • 19 The Silent Steinway, 1965
  • 20 The Jewel in the Crown
  • 21 The Year Everything Went Wrong, 1968
  • 22 Law and Order, 1968
  • 23 Faith and Reason v. Law and Order
  • 24 June 1970
  • 25 Complicated, 1971
  • 26 Guggenheim, 1972
  • 27 The Door Opens, Then Closes Tight, 1975-1977
  • 28 The Last Post, 1977
  • 29 The Hope That Lies within You, 2020
  • Appendix: Personal Histories, Correspondence, Reminiscences, and Interviews
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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