Northwestern University : Celebrating 150 Years

by Pridmore, Jay

• ISBN13: 9780810118294
• ISBN10: 0810118297
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr

Summary

-- Why did Northwestern build its campus and a new town around it rather than locate in Chicago, where the University's founders first met?
-- Which 1855 amendment to the University's charter caused the most debate in the Illinois Legislature: to prohibit the sale of liquor within four miles of campus or to exempt Northwestern property from real estate taxes?
-- What was the relationship between Frances Willard, the first dean of women, and Henry Fowler, University president?
-- Why did NU students hang John D. Rockefeller in effigy during a protest rally in the 1930's?

Find out the answers to these questions, as well as a host of other wonderful stories in Northwestern University: Celebrating 150 Years, the new anecdotal history of Northwestern. Published in celebration of the university's sesquicentennial and filled with historical and contemporary photos, this full-color book chronicles Northwestern's fascinating history, from the effort to found "an institution of the highest order" through the rise of the modern university.

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Table of Contents

Foreword	6	(10)
Henry S. Bienen
A Place for Sanctified Learning	10	(26)
Construction and Coeducation	36	(26)
Toward a Modern University	62	(28)
The University Comes of Age	90	(28)
Walter Dill Scott and a Greater Northwestern	118	(36)
Northwestern in War and Peace	154	(32)
The Rocky Miller Era	186	(40)
Toward the University of the Future	226	(40)
Northwestern University Charter	266	(5)
Northwestern University Presidents	271	(1)
Bibliography	272	(1)
Acknowledgments	273	(2)
Index	275	(5)
Photo Credits	280