Contents
Foreword
Preface
- Origins: The Land-Grant Vision
VignetteThe Nittany Lion
- Survival Assured with New Leadership
- Shaping a Modern College
- Toward a State University
VignettePenn State in China
- New Leadership for a New Era
- Enduring the Great Depression
Vignette"Equally Inaccessible from All Parts of the State"
- From Depression to World War II
- Challenges of the Post-War Era
VignetteThe Land-Grant Frescoes
- The Quest for National Recognition
- Expansion and Its Consequences
VignetteThe Other Side of College Avenue
- Years of Crises: the 1960s
- Beyond University Park
- Growth and Financial Stress: the 1970s
- Serving Pennsylvania and the Nation