International Dictionary of University Histories

809 Pages·1998·41.071 MB·English

by  Mary Elizabeth Devine (editor), Carol Summerfield (editor)

INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF
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INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY OF
UNIVERSITY HISTORIES
Edited by
CAROL SUMMERFIELD
and
MARY ELIZABETH DEVINE
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Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
LONDON AND NEW YORK
Copyright © 1998 by
FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS
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First published in 1998 by FITZROY DEARBORN PUBLISHERS
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CONTENTS
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Editor’s Note......................................................................
.xv
Contributors ......................................................................
Prefatory Essay by A.H.T. Levi: The University Movement xvii
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The Dictionary:...................................................................
. .3
Aalborg University....................
..6
Aarhus University......................
. .9
Al-Azhar University..................
.14
Albert Ludwigs University........
.18
Aligarh Muslim University........
.21
Amherst College........................
.25
Antioch University....................
.30
Atlanta University Center..........
.34
Barnard College ........................
.38
Beijing University......................
.42
Boston University......................
.46
Brandeis University ..................
.51
Brigham Young University^........
.56
Brown University......................
.60
Bryn Mawr College ..................
.64
California Institute of Technolog)
.69
Case Western Reserve University
.74
Charles University ....................
V
Chinese University of Hong Kong .....................................................................................................78
The Citadel: The Military College of South Carolina..........................................................................81
City University of New York ............................................................................................................85
Claremont Colleges............................................................................................................................94
College of Mexico..............................................................................................................................99
College of William and Mary..........................................................................................................101
Columbia University........................................................................................................................105
Complutense University of Madrid...................................................................................................109
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art....................................................................112
Cornell College................................................................................................................................117
Cornell University............................................................................................................................121
Dartmouth College ..........................................................................................................................126
Doshisha University ........................................................................................................................131
Duke University................................................................................................................................135
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen ...........................................................................................140
École Nationale d’Administration....................................................................................................144
École Normale Supérieure................................................................................................................148
École Polytechnique ........................................................................................................................152
Emory University ............................................................................................................................156
Federal Institute of Technology........................................................................................................160
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.................................................................................................164
Free University of Berlin..................................................................................................................167
Gallaudet University........................................................................................................................169
Georgetown University....................................................................................................................173
Georgia Augustus University of Göttingen.......................................................................................177
Guilford College ..............................................................................................................................181
Harvard University ..........................................................................................................................185
Hebrew University............................................................................................................................190
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Howard University............................................................................................................................195
Humboldt University .........................................................................................................................200
Illinois Institute of Technology .........................................................................................................205
Indian Agricultural Research Institute...............................................................................................209
Indiana University ............................................................................................................................213
Indian Institutes of Technology .........................................................................................................217
Jagiellonian University......................................................................................................................220
Jawaharlal Nehru University .............................................................................................................224
Johns Hopkins University...................................................................................................................228
Keio University..................................................................................................................................233
Kyushu University ............................................................................................................................238
Laval University................................................................................................................................241
Leipzig University ............................................................................................................................246
Loránd Eotvos University...................................................................................................................249
Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich........................................................................................253
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg....................................................................................256
Massachusetts Institute of Technology...............................................................................................260
McGill University..............................................................................................................................265
Michigan State University .................................................................................................................270
Mount Holyoke College.....................................................................................................................275
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University ......................................................................................280
National Autonomous University of Mexico......................................................................................285
National University of Ireland ...........................................................................................................288
National University of San Marcos ...................................................................................................292
New School for Social Research .......................................................................................................295
New York University.........................................................................................................................300
Northeastern University.....................................................................................................................304
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Northwestern University.....................................................................................................................
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Oberlin College................................................................................................................................313
Ohio State University ......................................................................................................................318
Oregon State University ..................................................................................................................322
Philipps University of Marburg.........................................................................................................327
Princeton University ........................................................................................................................330
Purdue University ............................................................................................................................335
Radcliffe College..............................................................................................................................339
Reed College...................................................................................................................................344
Rice University ...............................................................................................................................349
Ruprecht Karls University................................................................................................................353
Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey...................................................................................356
St. John’s College ............................................................................................................................360
Seoul National University...............................................................................................................364
Smith College .................................................................................................................................368
Stanford University..........................................................................................................................373
State University of New York..........................................................................................................379
Strasbourg University ......................................................................................................................383
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research ...........................................................................................388
Technion—Israel Institute of Technology.........................................................................................391
Tufts University...............................................................................................................................395
Tulane University ............................................................................................................................398
United States Military Academy at West Point.................................................................................403
United States Naval Academy..........................................................................................................408
University of Aberdeen....................................................................................................................412
University of Aix-Marseille ............................................................................................................417
University of Alcalá de Henares......................................................................................................420
University of Arizona ......................................................................................................................423
University of Barcelona....................................................................................................................426
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University of Bordeaux......................................................................................................................429
University of Buenos Aires ...............................................................................................................432
University of California.....................................................................................................................436
University of Cambridge ...................................................................................................................445
University of Canterbury ...................................................................................................................452
University of Cape Town...................................................................................................................456
University of Chicago.........................................................................................................................460
University of Chile.............................................................................................................................464
University of Coimbra .......................................................................................................................468
University of Cologne.........................................................................................................................472
University of Copenhagen .................................................................................................................475
University of Dublin Trinity College.................................................................................................480
University of Durham.........................................................................................................................486
University of Edinburgh.....................................................................................................................490
University of Florence .......................................................................................................................495
University of Glasgow .......................................................................................................................498
University of Granada.........................................................................................................................502
University of Illinois...........................................................................................................................506
University of Iowa .............................................................................................................................511
University of Leiden...........................................................................................................................516
University of London.........................................................................................................................522
University of Louvain.........................................................................................................................529
University of Manchester...................................................................................................................533
University of Melbourne.....................................................................................................................536
University of Michigan.......................................................................................................................539
University of Minnesota.....................................................................................................................544
University of Missouri .......................................................................................................................549
University of Montpellier...................................................................................................................553
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