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The University of Louisville /

Dwayne Cox and William Morison trace the twists and turns of the University of Louisville's two hundred year journey from provincial academy to national powerhouse. From the 1798 charter that established Jefferson Seminary to the 1998 opening of Papa John Stadium, Cox and Morison reveal the uni...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Dwayne, 1950-
Other Authors: Morison, William James, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; FOREWORD; PREFACE; 1. Jefferson Seminary, 1798-1829; 2. ""First Among the Medical Schools of the West""; 3. From Frontier Academy to City College; 4. The Emergence of a University; 5. Civil War Travails; 6. Competition, Consolidation, and Reform; 7. The Late Nineteenth-Century Law School; 8. The Rebirth of the Liberal Arts College; 9. Campus and Academic Expansion; 10. President vs. Faculty; 11. Academic Respectability; 12. A Dream Deferred; 13. Famine, Flood, and War; 14. The ""Golden Age""?; 15. Statehood; 16. Student Unrest.
  • 17. Growing Pains18. An Agent for Change; 19. Looking Ahead, Looking Back; LOOKING AHEAD; LOOKING BACK; APPENDIX ONE: Deans of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Louisville; APPENDIX TWO: Louisville Municipal College Faculty Members, 1931-1951; NOTES; INDEX.