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The University Of Georgia - A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (Hardcover)
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The University Of Georgia - A Bicentennial History, 1785-1985 (Hardcover)
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Thomas G. Dyer's definitive history of the University of Georgia
celebrates the bicentennial of the school's founding with a richly
varied account of people and events. More than an institutional
history, The University of Georgia is a contribution to the
understanding of the course and development of higher education in
the South. The Georgia legislature in January 1785 approved a
charter establishing "a public seat of learning in this state." For
the next sixteen years the university's trustees struggled to
convert its endowment-forty thousand acres of land in the
backwoods-into enough money to support a school. By 1801 the
university had a president, a campus on the edge of Indian country,
and a few students. Over the next two centuries the small liberal
arts college that educated the sons of lawyers and planters grew
into a major research university whose influence extends far beyond
the boundaries of the state. The course of that growth has not
always been smooth. This volume includes careful analyses of
turning points in the university's history: the Civil War and
Reconstruction, the rise of land-grant colleges, the coming of
intercollegiate athletics, the admission of women to undergraduate
programs, the enrollment of thousands of World War II veterans, and
desegregation. All are considered in the context of what was
occurring elsewhere in the South and in the nation.
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