Bulwark of liberty
Subtitle: early years at Dickinson.
Series: The Boyd Lee Spahr lectures in Americana,; v.1, 1947-1950
Publisher: Revell
Published: 1950
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Dickinson College -- History.
Table of contents: title: Boyd Lee Spahr, Dickinsonian, an appreciation.-Bulwark of liberty, by W. J. Bell, Jr.-Benjamin Rush and the beginnings of "John and Mary's College" over Susquehanna, by L. H. Butterfield.-Charles Nisbet, portrait in miniature, by B. L. Spahr.-A frontier experiment with higher education, by J. B. Smith.-The sources of the original Dickinson college Library, by J. W. Phillips.-High Brackenridge's ride; how we got "Old West," by W. W. Edel.-The education of Roger B. Taney, by C. B. Swisher.-James Buchanan; lessons in leadership in trying times, by R. F. Nichols.