Main entry:

Storr, Richard J.

Title & Author:

Harper's university : the beginnings: a history of the University of Chicago / by Richard J. Storr. Drawings by Virgil Burnett.

Publication:

Chicago, University of Chicago Press [1966]

Description:

xvi, 411 pages illustrations, portraits 24 cm

Notes:
"Bibliographical notes": pages 399-404.
The founding : In the beginning: the phoenix : "These terrible truths" -- A college for the metropolis of the west -- Financing a college and founding a university. The plan, the people, and the polity : a university among universities : The old testament and the new testament -- Negotiations -- Academic polity: the president and the professors. The academic way: the first ten years : the student body : The approaches to academe -- The higher teaching: the senior colleges and the beginnings of professional education -- The higher teaching and the higher degrees -- Outside the classroom. The greater constituency : wherever mankind is : The mission of the university -- The presence of the university. Demand and supply : too far or not far enough : Trial balance -- New York and Chicago. The university established: after the beginning : Towards the higher teaching -- The academic way re-examined -- "Work still to do."

Subject:

Harper, William Rainey, 1856-1906.
Harper, William Rainey, (1856-1906)
University of Chicago History.
University of Chicago Histoire.
University of Chicago
Chicago (Ill.) University of Chicago.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Burnett, Virgil, illustrator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 189356
Call No.: LD924.5.H3 S8; ID:94-B1823
Status: Available

Location: Library main 189355
Call No.: LD924.5.H3 S8; ID:94-B1823
Status: Available