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University of Nebraska-Lincoln / Kay Logan-Peters ; foreword by Ronnie Green, Chancellor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Logan-Peters, Kay, author.
- Series:
- Campus history series.
- Campus history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nebraska--History.
- Nebraska.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln--History.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
- University of Nebraska-Lincoln--History--Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- Early in 1869, Nebraska's legislature convened for the first time in the new capital city of Lincoln. Eager to reap the benefits of the Morrill Act, legislators quickly approved a bill establishing the University of Nebraska. Visionary lawmakers rejected the creation of two universities and determined that the state university and the state agricultural university should "be united as one educational institution." Thus was born Nebraska's great land grant and comprehensive research university that serves Nebraskans and the world beyond the state. Pulitzer Prize-winning authors, Olympic athletes, and Nobel Prize-winning scientists have launched their careers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as have world-class artists, entertainers, educators, and business leaders.
- Contents:
- Founding a Prairie University
- The best in the West
- Meanwhile, at the farm
- Pioneering women
- Growth and change
- Rituals, rites, and student fun
- Dark days
- Becoming a research university
- Building a system.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4396-6203-7
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