Main entry:

Viles, Jonas, 1875-1948, author.

Title & Author:

The University of Missouri : a centennial history / Jonas Viles, with the collaboration of several of his colleagues.

Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri, 1939.

Description:

7 preliminary leaves, 508 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Illustrated lining papers.
The old university: The background ; The foundations ; Sectionalism and sectarianism ; Recovery and progress ; The time of troubles ; From college to university ; Samuel Spahr laws ; The fire -- The modern university: Introduction ; The College of Arts and Science / Henry Marvin Belden, Professor Emeritus of English ; The College of Agriculture / William Carlyle Etheridge, Professor of Field Crops ; The School of Business and Public Administration / William Leonard Bradshaw, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Law ; The School of Education / Dean Theophil William Henry Irion ; The School of Engineering / Mendell P. Weinback, Professor of Electrical Engineering ; The Graduate School / Charles Frederic Mullett, Associate Professor of History ; The School of Journalism / Roscoe Brabazon Ellard, Professor of Journalism ; The School of Law / Percy Anderson Hogan, Law Libraries ; The School of Medicine / Charles Wilson Greene, Professor Emeritus of Physiology and Pharmacology ; The School of Mines and Metallurgy at Rolla / Samuel Horace Lloyd, Jr., Associate Professor of History and Psychology ; The future / President Frederick Arnold Middlebush.
Also available online.

Summary:

This book chronicles the history of the University of Missouri from 1839 to 1939.

Subject:

University of Missouri History.
University of Missouri
Universities and colleges Missouri History.
Universities and colleges
George Somerville Collection.
Missouri

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

University of Missouri, 1839-1939

Holdings:

Location: Library main 178878
Call No.: ID LD3468.V5; ID:98-B1367
Status: Available