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Dignity, discourse, and destiny : the life of Courtney C. Smith

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Main Author: Stapleton, Darwin H.
Contributors: Stapleton, Donna Heckman, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : London : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, c2004.
Subjects and Genres:
Smith, Courtney C. > (Courtney Craig), > 1916-
Swarthmore College > Presidents > Biography.
College presidents > United States > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • Childhood
  • Harvard, Oxford, and marriage
  • In the Navy
  • Return to education : Princeton
  • The Woodrow Wilson Program years
  • Swarthmore College at mid-century
  • Swarthmore looks for Courtney
  • Inauguration
  • The case for the liberal arts college
  • Faculty
  • "There is strength
  • in having a variety of sources of support" : funding the liberal arts tradition
  • Networks of support and service : behind the presidency
  • "Nature shaped to advantage" : preserving campus viability
  • Student activism : "to care about social justice"
  • Two decades of student life at Swarthmore
  • "Personal things"
  • Administration of a college
  • The final year
  • Conclusion.

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