The University of Louisville

by Cox, Dwayne D.; Morison, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780813121420
• ISBN10: 0813121426
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-22
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky

Summary

Louisville held a prominent spot on the late eighteenth-century urban frontier, and as the city grew, so did the need for an institution of higher learning. In 1798, state-chartered trustees began raising funds for what would become the Jefferson Seminary, which operated until 1829. A few years later a medical school was established, and part of the seminary property was used to fund what became Louisville College. While that academy also perished, the medical school prospered. Soon a law school was added, and the institution now known as the University of Louisville was born. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dwayne D. Cox, university archivist at Auburn University, was associate archivist at the University of Louisville from 1975 to 1986.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xi
Jefferson Seminary, 1798-1829	1	(10)
"First Among the Medical Schools of the West"	11	(9)
From Frontier Academy to City College	20	(3)
The Emergence of a University	23	(5)
Civil War Travails	28	(3)
Competition, Consolidation, and Reform	31	(8)
The Late Nineteenth-Century Law School	39	(5)
The Rebirth of the Liberal Arts College	44	(13)
Campus and Academic Expansion	57	(18)
President vs. Faculty	75	(5)
Academic Respectability	80	(8)
A Dream Deferred	88	(14)
Famine, Flood, and War	102	(13)
The "Golden Age"?	115	(25)
Statehood	140	(6)
Student Unrest	146	(8)
Growing Pains	154	(20)
An Agent for Change	174	(24)
Looking Ahead, Looking Back	198	(10)
Appendix One: Deans of the Schools and Colleges of the University of Louisville	208	(3)
Appendix Two: Louisville Municipal College Faculty Members, 1931-1951	211	(2)
Notes	213	(26)
Index	239