New York University and the city : an illustrated history /

New York University and the city : an illustrated history /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Frusciano, Thomas J., 1950-
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1997.
Description:	xiv, 286 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	New York University -- History. New York University. Community and college -- New York (State) -- New York. Community and college. New York (N.Y.) -- History. New York (State) -- New York. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2901150

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Other authors / contributors:	Pettit, Marilyn H., 1942-
ISBN:	0813523478 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.

Table of Contents:

Foreword / L. Jay Oliva
1. Creating a University
2. The University of the City of New-York and "the Rising Generation"
3. The University at Washington Square
4. Mid-Century Growing Pains
5. From Office to the Academy: Nineteenth-Century Legal Education
6. "Elevating the Healing Arts": The University Medical College
7. Violet Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Student Life and Culture
8. The Uptown Movement and the Metropolitan University
9. "Insouciant and Independent": New Beginnings at Washington Square
10. The "Swarming Life" of Washington Square
11. Depression and World War
12. Postwar Expansion and Community Reaction
13. The Urban University Confronts the Sixties
14. The Miracle on Washington Square
15. The Golden Age of NYU.