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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John D Wright, Jr. |
ISBN: | 0813114209 9780813114200 |
OCLC Number: | 6407025 |
Description: | xii, 445 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Learning in the wilderness -- Division and reunion -- James Moore and the new university -- Problems and slow growth of the university -- The making of a martyr -- The Phoenix rises -- The failure of innovative education -- The crisis in the medical department -- The Methodists take their turn -- The period of decline, 1850-1865 -- The great experiment: Kentucky University -- The embattled sectarians, 1865-1977 -- Apes, girls, and "daddy" loos -- The creative administration of Burris Jenkins -- Student life from the Civil War to World War I -- The struggle for survival and identity -- World War I and the heresy trial -- Transylvania survives the twenties -- Depression and war -- Innovation and expansion -- Expansion and consolidation. |
Responsibility: | by John D. Wright, Jr. |
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