Semi-Centennial History of the University of Illinois. Volume I. The Movement for Industrial Education and the Establishment of the University. By Burt E. Powell, University Historian, with an Introduction by Edmund J. James, Ph.D., LL.D., fourth President of the University. (Urbana: the University. 1918. Pp. xxii, 631. $2.00.)

1919 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Education ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

The Box Elder Mound in La Salle County, Illinois

1945 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-48
Author(s):  
James B. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Box Elder ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
The Town

Excavations carried on in 1931 under the University of Illinois archaeological program were directed by A. R. Kelly. One of the small mounds explored during the spring of that year was excavated by W. V. Kinietz. It was called the Box Elder Mound and was located near the town of Science, in Starved Rock State Park near Utica, La Salle County, Illinois.During the summer of 1935 I was permitted by the late F. C. Baker, then Curator of the Museum of Natural History of the University of Illinois, to study and describe this material. The vessels to be described below are a part of the collections of the University of Illinois.

scholarly journals Semi-Centennial History of the University of Illinois

1919 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Paul Monroe ◽  
Burt E. Powell ◽  
Edmund James ◽  
Burt E Powell
Keyword(s):  
University Of Illinois ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

John W. Boyer, The University of Chicago: A History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015), 676pp. ISBN: 9780226242514

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger L. Geiger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Learning ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Democratic Institution ◽  
American Universities ◽  
American Higher Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

This chapter reviews the book The University of Chicago: A History (2015), by John W. Boyer. Founded in 1892, the University of Chicago is one of the world’s great institutions of higher learning. However, its past is also littered with myths, especially locally. Furthermore, the university has in significant ways been out of sync with the trends that have shaped other American universities. These issues and much else are examined by Boyer in the first modern history of the University of Chicago. Aside from rectifying myth, Boyer places the university in the broader history of American universities. He suggests that the early University of Chicago, in its combination of openness and quality, may have been the most democratic institution in American higher education. He also examines the reforms that overcame the chronic weaknesses that had plagued the university.

Dan Inman, The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014). ISBN: 9781451469264

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Zachhuber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The University ◽  
The University

This chapter reviews the book The Making of English Theology: God and the Academy at Oxford (2014). by Dan Inman. The book offers an account of a fascinating and little known episode in the history of the University of Oxford. It examines the history of Oxford’s Faculty of Theology from the early nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In particular, it revisits the various attempts to tinker with theology at Oxford during this period and considers the fierce resistance of conservatives. Inman argues that Oxford’s idiosyncratic development deserves to be taken more seriously than it often has been, at least by historians of theology.

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