Bethany College
Subtitle: a liberal arts odyssey
By: D. Duane Cummins
Publisher: Chalice Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9780827202962
Subjects: Bethany College (Bethany, W. Va.); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-411) and index.
Table of contents: title: The founding of Bethany; title: The Bethany liberal arts curriculum in antebellum America; title: Bethany campus culture in antebellum America; title: Bethany and the post-Civil War age of the multipurpose college; title: Bethany and the late nineteenth-century development of the new American university; title: Bethany and the liberal arts enter the twentieth century; title: Bethany and the liberal arts during the twenties, the depression, and World War II; title: Bethany and the liberal arts during the golden age of higher education; title: Bethany and a rebalancing of liberal arts and professional arts in the 1970s and 1980s; title: Bethany and a re-emphasis on liberal arts at the close of the twentieth century; title: Bethany and the liberal arts enter the twenty-first century.