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wesleyan university, 1910–1970 Wesleyan University, 1910−1970 Academic Ambition and Middle-Class America david b. potts wesleyan university press Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress © 2015 David B. Potts All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Typeset in Garamond Premier Pro by Passumpsic Publishing Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Potts, David B. (David Bronson) Wesleyan University, 1910–1970: academic ambition and middle-class America / David B. Potts. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8195-7519-7 (cloth: alk. paper)— isbn 978-0-8195-7520-3 (ebook) 1. Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.)— History—20th century. 2. Education, Humanistic— United States—History—20th century. I. Title. ld5901.w32p683 2015 378.7466—dc23 2014036304 5 4 3 2 1 Front cover illustration: Olin Memorial Library, 1928. Courtesy of the Wesleyan University Archives. For robert g. mckelvey Rhodes Scholar and gentleman, who deeply and patiently understood the long journey to complete this work contents Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xix 1 Fisher and Fiduciaries 1 2 On the Road to Recognition 31 3 Membership in the Little Three 104 4 Holding Ground in Hard Times 175 5 War as an Agent of Change 243 6 “ A New Major American University” 309 7 Hazards of New Fortune 383 Appendix 1: Presidencies, 1831 to Present 421 Appendix 2: Enrollments at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1910–90 422 Appendix 3: Endowment Dollars per Student at Wesleyan, Amherst, and Williams, 1930–90 425 Abbreviations Used in Notes 427 Notes 433 Index of First Citations in Notes 633 Index of Subjects 637 Index of Persons 663 illustrations President William Arnold Shanklin 2 Professor Willard C. Fisher 3 Stephen Henry Olin ’66 12 Henry Bacon 13 Bacon’s 1913 campus plan 14 Bacon’s 1916 plan for athletic fields on Foss Hill 15 Albert W. Johnston ’93 17 Van Vleck Observatory 19 Clark Hall 20 Memorial Chapel, 1916 renovation 21 Board of Trustees 1917 29 Wesleyan vs. Yale 1913 36 Professors William North Rice and Caleb T. Winchester 44 Wesleyan vs. Amherst 1916 70 Beta Theta Pi House 74 Eclectic House interior 74 Digging trenches to train for WWI 94 Stephen Henry and Emeline Harriman Olin 109 Faculty 1931 121 President James Lukens McConaughy 131 Professor Edgar Fauver 137 Glee Club 1926/27 152 McKim, Mead & White 1927 campus plan 161 Van Vleck Observatory telescope 165 Emeline Harriman Olin 168 Olin Memorial Library 169 University Club, New York City (interior) 170 Olin Memorial Library (interior) 170 George W. Davison ’92 172 Centennial celebration 1931 181 Director of Admissions Victor L. Butterfield 207 Davison Dinner 1943 211 Douglas Cannon 213 Squash Racquets Building 227
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