This was the first comprehensive history of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and remains a valuable source of information about the university. Written by D.D. Calvin (BA 1902), an architect and member of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ Board of Trustees, the book describes ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ founding, its troubled early decades, and its emergence as a major national institution under Principal George Monro Grant.
The book tells the story of ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ separation from the Presbyterian Church early this century, the crises of the First World War (see Wartime at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥), and the emergence of the modern University in the 1920s and 1930s. It also contains excellent chapters on ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ faculties, student life, lands and buildings, and women at the university (see Admission of Women at ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥).
The book was published by the Board of Trustees for ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ centennial celebrations in 1941.
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