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Temple University : 125 years of service to Philadelphia, the nation, and the world
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Temple University's alumni number over a quarter million, and include entertainment legend Bill Cosby and Shirley Tilghman, the first woman president of Princeton University. One of every eight col...
Temple University's alumni number over a quarter million, and include entertainment legend Bill Cosby and Shirley Tilghman, the first woman president of Princeton University. One of every eight college graduates in the Philadelphia area received their degrees at Temple. Temple Owls are everywhere! Temple University: 125 Years of Service to Philadelphia, the Nation, and the World, by noted historian and Temple professor James Hilty offers the first full history of Temple University.
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- Creator
- James W. Hilty ; foreword by Ann Weaver Hart ; additional research and illustrations editing by Matthew M. Hanson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- 1st ed
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (ix, 308 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- ISBNs
- 9781439900215, 1439900191, 1439900213, 9781439900192
- OCLC
- ocn648711433, ocn648760644
- Includes index.
- English
- Contents; Key to School and College Abbreviations; Temple University Board of Trustees; Foreword by President Ann Weaver Hart; 1. The Man, the Speech, the "Temple Idea"; 2. Growing Pains, 1907-1928; 3. Depression and War, 1929-1945; 4. Middle Passage, 1945 -1965; 5. Vehicle for Social Change, 1965 -1982; 6. Temple's Ambassadors; 7. Multiversity and Globalversity, 1982-2009; 8. From Sidewalk Campus to Urban Village; 9. Access to Excellence; Chronology; Acknowledgments and Notes on Resources; Illustration Sources; Index