Sills of Bowdoin. the Life of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills 1879-1954 / Herbert Ross Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Herbert Ross, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1964]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Studies the life of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills from 1879-1954. Looks at his life from boyhood, through his undergraduate years at Bowdoin, time spent as a professor there and his eventual presidency of Bowdoin.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

1. A PORTLAND BOYHOOD 1880-1897

2. UNDERGRADUATE AT B0WD01N 1897-1901

3. UNIVERSITY YEARS HARVARD AND COLUMBIA, 1901-1906

4. BOWDOIN PROFESSOR AND FACULTY SECRETARY, 1906-1910

5. DEAN OF BOWDOIN 1910-1917

6. SCHOLAR IN POLITICS CASEY RUNS FOR THE SENATE, 1916

7. DEAN, ACTING PRESIDENT, AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR

8. THE YOUNG PRESIDENT 1918-1919

9. ADMINISTERING BOWDOIN IN THE 1920s: I

10. ADMINISTERING BOWDOIN IN THE 1920s: II

11. LIGHTS AND SHADOWS IN THE 1930s

12. FROM THE DEPRESSION TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR

13. THE PRESIDENT AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR

14. CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 1945-1952

15. PRESIDENT EMERITUS 1952-1954

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89055-9

OCLC:

1100437037