Tulane
Subtitle: The Emergence of a Modern University, 1945-1980
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 504
ISBN-13: 9780807125533
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Universities / polytechnics; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Organizations & Institutions; Universities; Education / Teaching; Education; Louisiana; Tulane University; Higher; 20th century; History
First sentence: Writing in 1946, as returning veterans and their families flooded onto a campus only recently vacated by U.S. Navy trainees, Tulane president Rufus Carrollton Harris predicted that the university's transition from war to peace would constitute the most complex episode in the school's 112-year history.