University Builder

by Boles, John B.

• ISBN13: 9780807132753
• ISBN10: 0807132756
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-04
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

Rice University, one of America's preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871?1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged, almost from its founding in 1912, as one of America's best universities, Rice is distinguished as both the smallest and the youngest institution in the top tier of American universities. In telling the tale of Lovett and his innovative, enduring vision for Rice, John Boles provides both a compelling biographical narrative and a refreshing new view of American higher education in the first half of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Dual Beginnings	p. 1
Farewell to Princeton	p. 30
The Grand Tour	p. 56
The Launching of the New University	p. 81
Academic Administration in Peacetime and War	p. 111
Steadying the Course in the Roaring Twenties	p. 146
Confronting the Great Depression	p. 180
War, Stress, Change, and Promise	p. 212
Full Circle: Retirement, Transition, Renewed Momentum	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 265
Note on Sources	p. 269
Bibliography	p. 275
Index	p. 283
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