Research Catalog

Title

New York University and the city : an illustrated history / Thomas J. Frusciano and Marilyn H. Pettit.

Author

Frusciano, Thomas J., 1950-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1997.

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Additional Authors

Pettit, Marilyn H., 1942-2015.

Description

xiv, 286 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

"In New York University and the City, Thomas J. Frusciano and Marilyn H. Pettit situate the history of this unique urban university within the context of the social, political, and economic history of New York City. The authors trace the movement northward on Manhattan Island of both university and city, from the commercial hustle and bustle around City Hall, where the first classes were held in 1832, to the rural environs of Greenwich Village, and ultimately even farther north in 1894 to the undergraduate extension on the "secluded hilltop" of University Heights in the Bronx." "Vividly illustrated with both historical and contemporary images, New York University and the City explores various themes in the history of higher education and how NYU responded to changes in urban demographics, curriculum demands, and physical space during critical periods in the city's development. The relationship between university and city is further examined through extensive biographical portraits of the many historical personalities who made contributions to the development of both city and university."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• New York University > History
• New York University
• New York (N.Y.) > New York University
• Community and college > New York (State) > New York
• Relations université-collectivité > New York (État) > New York
• Community and college
• Stadtleben
• Geschichte
• Universiteiten
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• New York (N.Y.) > Histoire
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-278) and index.

Contents

Foreword / L. Jay Oliva -- 1. Creating a University -- 2. The University of the City of New-York and "the Rising Generation" -- 3. The University at Washington Square -- 4. Mid-Century Growing Pains -- 5. From Office to the Academy: Nineteenth-Century Legal Education -- 6. "Elevating the Healing Arts": The University Medical College -- 7. Violet Traditions: Nineteenth-Century Student Life and Culture -- 8. The Uptown Movement and the Metropolitan University -- 9. "Insouciant and Independent": New Beginnings at Washington Square -- 10. The "Swarming Life" of Washington Square -- 11. Depression and World War -- 12. Postwar Expansion and Community Reaction -- 13. The Urban University Confronts the Sixties -- 14. The Miracle on Washington Square -- 15. The Golden Age of NYU.

ISBN

• 0813523478
• 9780813523477

LCCN

97009655

OCLC

• ocm36407897
• 36407897
• SCSB-8924017

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library