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Halfway Up Parnassus: A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

Halfway Up Parnassus: A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

Bissell, Claude

Paperback

Series: Heritage

General Education

ISBN10: 1442651970
ISBN13: 9781442651975
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Dec 15 1974
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, uncertain of itself and its role, seeking to find a form for democratic aspirations--not, however, without some dramatic confrontations with left-wing students. Nowhere in Canada was the process more sharply defined than at the University of Toronto. This book records that process from the point of view of a major participant. It is also intended as a series of portraits of major academic figures and as an intimate recollection of a society that is passing away.

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