Harry Huntt Ransom
Subtitle: intellect in motion
By: Alan Gribben.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780292717046
Subjects: Ransom, Harry Huntt, -- 1908-; University of Texas at Austin -- Biography; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center -- History; Educators -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Both a life story and a portrait of public higher education during the twentieth century, Harry Huntt Ransom captures the spirit of a dynamic individual who dedicated his talents to nurturing intellectual life in Texas and beyond. Tracing the details of Ransom's youth in Galveston and Tennessee and his education at Yale, where he earned a doctorate, Alan Gribben provides new insight into the factors that shaped Ransom's future as a renowned administrator and defender of the humanities."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: Texas, Tennessee, travels; title: The scholar; title: The teacher; title: The bare fact of war; title: Climbing the administrative ladder; title: The rare books collection; title: The Texas quarterly; title: The rare books collection and the academic center; title: Vice president and provost; title: University president; title: The chancellor; title: Cambridge on the range; title: A university in transition; title: Prerogatives and protests; title: A chancellor's prophecies; title: Staying the course; title: "Mr. University"; title: Farewells; title: Legacies.