This remarkable portrait of Rutgers--evocative, amusing, informative, and exuberant--is drawn from the narrative of three overlapping journeys. The longest spans nearly two and a half centuries and traces the University's evolution from a colonial college established to train young men for the ministry, to its land-grant designation in the mid-nineteenth century, to its current status as New Jersey's state university and a distinguished center for learning and research. The second journey is the quest for knowledge and ...
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This remarkable portrait of Rutgers--evocative, amusing, informative, and exuberant--is drawn from the narrative of three overlapping journeys. The longest spans nearly two and a half centuries and traces the University's evolution from a colonial college established to train young men for the ministry, to its land-grant designation in the mid-nineteenth century, to its current status as New Jersey's state university and a distinguished center for learning and research. The second journey is the quest for knowledge and achievement that faculty and students have shared since classes were first held in the mid-eighteenth century. Then, a single instructor and his handful of charges gathered to study in a former New Brunswick tavern. Today, a third journey travels the diverse paths of more than fifty thousand students and faculty each year, and starts on one of three major campuses throughout the state. A visit to each of them as the seasons change in the course of an academic year completes this Rutgers album.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Foreword by Robert Pinsky. Oblong quarto. 172pp. Illustrated from colored photographs. Bumping at the bottom edge of the boards, else near fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing on the rear panel and a tiny tear at the foot of the spine. Robert Pinsky graduated Rutgers in 1962 and was the Poet Laureate of the United States 1997-2000.
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AS NEW CONDITION. AS NEW DUST JACKETS. //NO REMAINDER MARK//NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) //NOT PRICECLIPPED// NEW MYLAR COVER//
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