In 1917 it was still possible for the University of Oklahoma's
annual Catalogue to include a roster of every student's name and
hometown. A compact and close-knit community, those 2,500 students
and their 130 professors studied and taught at a respectable
(though small, relatively uncomplicated, and rather insular)
regional university. During the following third of a century, the
school underwent changes so profound that their cumulative effect
amounted to a transformation. This second volume in David Levy's
projected three-part history chronicles these changes, charting the
University's course through one of the most dramatic periods in
American history. Following Oklahoma's flagship school through
decades that saw six U.S. presidents, eleven state governors, and
five university presidents, Volume 2 of The University of Oklahoma:
A History documents the institution's evolution into a complex,
diverse, and multifaceted seat of learning. By 1950 enrollment had
increased fivefold, and by every measure-the number of colleges and
campus buildings, degrees awarded and programs offered, volumes in
the library, faculty publications, out-of-state and foreign
students in attendance-the University was on its way to becoming a
world-class educational institution. Levy weaves together human and
institutional history as he describes the school's
remarkable-sometimes remarkably difficult-development in response
to unprecedented factors: two world wars, the cultural shifts of
the 1920s, the Great Depression, the rise of the petroleum
industry, the farm crisis and Dust Bowl, the emergence of new
technologies, and new political and social forces such as those
promoting and resisting racial justice. National and world events,
state politics, campus leadership, the ever-changing student body:
in triumph and defeat, in small successes and grand
accomplishments, all come to varied and vibrant life in this second
installment of the definitive history of Oklahoma's storied center
of learning.
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