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Washington University in St. Louis : a history / Ralph E. Morrow.
LIBRA LD5793 .M67 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morrow, Ralph E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)--History.
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.).
- Universities--history.
- History.
- Missouri.
- Medical Subjects:
- Universities--history.
- Missouri.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott
- Physical Description:
- xi, 757 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St. Louis : Missouri Historical Society Press, [1996]
- Contents:
- To set a city on a hill
- Beginnings ...
- ... And beginnings
- A reluctant Chancellor
- Forms and textures
- Interregnum
- "Just beyond Tom Skinker's Road"
- A university for the Southwest
- "Our new, ideal medical school"
- "Oh, those were happy days"
- The refounded Washington University
- Coming of age
- Of new schools ...
- ... And old
- "Shoulders to the wheel"
- Trial by Arms
- High hopes and hard realities
- Three jewels in his crown
- A hometown boy
- Farewell to the streetcar college
- Good times for eggheads
- "The university still stands"
- A primer for presidents
- An academic accounting.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
- ISBN:
- 1883982103
- 9781883982102
- OCLC:
- 34192431
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