The People's School is a comprehensive history of Oregon State
University, placing the institution's story in the context of
state, regional, national, and international history. Rather than
organizing the narrative around institutional presidencies, Robbins
examines the broader context of events, such as wars and economic
depressions, that affected life on the Corvallis campus. Agrarian
revolts in the last quarter of the nineteenth century affected
every Western state, including Oregon. The Spanish-American War,
the First World War, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the
Second World War disrupted institutional life, influenced
enrollment, curricular strategies, and the number of faculty and
staff. Peacetime events, such as Oregon's tax policies, also
circumscribed course offerings, hiring and firing, and the
allocation of funds to departments, schools, and colleges. This
contextual approach is not to suggest that university presidents
are unimportant. Benjamin Arnold (1872-1892), appointed president
of Corvallis College by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
served well beyond the date (1885) when the State of Oregon assumed
control of the agricultural college. Robbins uses central
administration records and grass-roots sources-local and state
newspapers, student publications (The Barometer, The Beaver), and
multiple and wide-ranging materials published in the university's
digitized ScholarsArchive@OSU, a source for the scholarly work of
faculty, students, and materials related to the institution's
mission and research activities. Other voices-extracurricular
developments, local and state politics, campus reactions to
national crises-provide intriguing and striking addendums to the
university's history.
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