Yale / Paul W. Gooch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gooch, Paul W., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yale University--History.

Yale University.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1984]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This lively history of Yale traces the development of the college from its founding in 1701 by a small group of Puritan clergymen intent on preserving the purity of the faith in Connecticut, to its survival in the eighteenth century as a center for intellectual life, to its expansion in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as a major international university. "For tasting one of the well-springs of a peculiarly American version of higher learning, Yale: A History is clearly to be recommended to readers anywhere. It will be read with profit as well as enjoyment."-Times Higher Education Supplement "Kelley sustains [his] theme well and reconstructs the institutional development of Yale with considerable skill and empathy. . . . A very informative book."-Journal of American History "Useful both for those primarily interested in Yale as an institution and for students of the history of higher education generally."-The Historian "A readable, accurate synthesis of Yale's internal history, fully comparable to the best single-volume treatments of other major universities."-Times Literary Supplement

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Founding a College

2. Wanderjahre

3. The College Gets a Name

4. Ichabod

5. The Solid Accomplishments of Elisha Williams

6. Tumultuous Years

7. The (Extended) Interregnum

8. The Rise of the University Spirit

9. College Becomes University

10. The Quiet Achievements of Jeremiah Day

11. President Woolsey and the Growth of the University

12. College Life under Day and Woolsey

13. Stagnation

14. Beginnings of Change

15. The Rise of the Extracurriculum

16. Revival

17. War and Reorganization

18. James Rowland Angell and the Triumph of the University

19. "Holding at the Three-Yard Line"

20. March toward Greatness

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300157987

0300157983

OCLC:

1024051329