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Head, heart, and hand : John Brown University and modern evangelical higher education / Rick Ostrander ; with a foreword by George Marsden.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ostrander, Richard, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brown, John Elward, 1879-1957.
- Brown, John Elward.
- John Brown University--History.
- John Brown University.
- Christian universities and colleges--United States--History.
- Christian universities and colleges.
- College presidents--United States--Biography.
- College presidents.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- Traveling evangelist John Brown believed that conventional colleges had become elitist and morally suspect, so he founded a small utopian college in 1919 to better combine evangelical Christianity and higher education.
- Contents:
- The "laughing evangelist"
- Creating a new kind of college
- From John E. Brown College to John Brown University
- College life in the early years
- Foundations for growth
- Emerging from the founder's shadow
- Decades of turmoil and transition
- A third Brown presidency
- New leadership, new directions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61075-179-5
- OCLC:
- 1032713757
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