West Virginia University: Symbol of Unity in a Sectionalized State

Contents

Foreword 3UHIDFH List of Illustrations Contents PART 21( THE MoRGANTOWN ScHooL - 1867-1945 VII IX XV Chapter 1 3 "Add to Your Faith Virtue, and to Virtue Knowledge" 1862-1867 Chapter 2 16 Yankee Centralization to Confederate Decentralization 1867-1885 Chapter 3 38 Decentralization to Centralization 1885-1901 Chapter 4 The Inner Wickedness of Sociology 1897-1901 Chapter 5 Conservative Management versus "New Education" 1901-1914 Chapter 6 Almost Heaven and Almost a University 1914-1928 Chapter 7 The Heavy Hand of Politics 1928-1935 Chapter 8 Four Terms for Roosevelt and Four Presidents for WVU 1932-1945 59 79 105 135 159 vi Contents PART Two : THE LAND-GRANT, CoMPREHENSIVE STATE UNIVERSITY -1946-1980 Chapter 9 185 A People's University 1946-1958 Chapter 10 214 In Sickness and in Health, Till Death Do Us Part; The Inviolate University Campus 1946-1958 Chapter 11 232 From the Banks of the Monongahela to the Banks of the Potomac, Part I 1958-1961 Chapter 12 250 From the Banks of the Monongahela to the Banks of the Potomac, Part II 1962-1967 Chapter 13 282 Into the University's Second Century: Gadgets and Governance 1967-1977 Chapter 14 307 An Era of Radical Change: Close Encounters with a New Kind of Student 1967-1977 Chapter 15 325 Into the Nineteen Eighties Notes 349 Selected Bibliography 355 Index 367 About the Authors ...