Dignity, Discourse, and Destiny
Author | : Darwin H. Stapleton |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 0874138337 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780874138337 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Childhood -- Harvard, Oxford, and marriage -- In the Navy -- Return to education : Princeton -- The Woodrow Wilson Program years -- Swarthmore College at mid-century -- Swarthmore looks for Courtney -- Inauguration -- The case for the liberal arts college -- Faculty -- "There is strength-- in having a variety of sources of support" : funding the liberal arts tradition -- Networks of support and service : behind the presidency -- "Nature shaped to advantage" : preserving campus viability -- Student activism : "to care about social justice"--Two decades of student life at Swarthmore -- "Personal things"--Administration of a college -- The final year -- Conclusion