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Dignity, discourse, and destiny : the life of Courtney C. Smith Darwin H. Stapleton and Donna Heckman Stapleton
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Biog. LD5192.7.S65 S72 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stapleton, Darwin H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smith, Courtney C. (Courtney Craig), 1916-1969.
- Smith, Courtney C.
- Swarthmore College--Presidents--Biography.
- Swarthmore College.
- College presidents--United States--Biography.
- College presidents.
- Physical Description:
- 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses, c2004.
- Contents:
- Childhood
- Harvard, Oxford, and marriage
- In the Navy
- Return to education : Princeton
- The Woodrow Wilson Program years
- Swarthmore College at mid-century
- Swarthmore looks for Courtney
- Inauguration
- The case for the liberal arts college
- Faculty
- "There is strength
- in having a variety of sources of support" : funding the liberal arts tradition
- Networks of support and service : behind the presidency
- "Nature shaped to advantage" : preserving campus viability
- Student activism : "to care about social justice"
- Two decades of student life at Swarthmore
- "Personal things"
- Administration of a college
- The final year
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-242) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0874138337 (alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 51755979
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