Book ID: CBB001213185

Arts and Science at Toronto: A History, 1827--1990 (2013)

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Brown, Robert Craig (Author)


University of Toronto Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: x + 339 pp.; ill.
Language: English

The University of Toronto's Faculty of Arts and Science is older than the university itself. Chartered in 1827 as King's College, it officially opened in 1843 with four professors and twenty-seven students. In this lively and engaging book, Robert Craig Brown vividly recounts the 150-year history of the faculty's staff, students, and achievements. Brown takes readers on a sweeping journey though the development and growth of the faculty through wartime and peace, depression and prosperity. He covers teaching and research in the vast array of subjects offered, administrative and financial concerns, and the Faculty's significant contributions to higher education in Canada. Throughout, Brown traces how the faculty evolved past its early defining traits of elitism and exclusivity to its current form -- a remarkably diverse body with students of all ages, backgrounds, and academic interests.

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Review Richard White (2015) Review of "Arts and Science at Toronto: A History, 1827--1990". Scientia Canadensis: Journal of the History of Canadian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 94-95). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Jennifer Bonnell
Rixon, Gordon A.
Derek Boles
White, Richard W.
Weidenhammer, Erich
Tenorth, Heinz-Elmar
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Science education and teaching
Education
Societies; institutions; academies
Psychology
Laboratories
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Modern
20th century, late
Places
Germany
Canada
Toronto (Ontario)
United States
Bath (England)
England
Institutions
University of Toronto
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
Bath University
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