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Tables of Contents for Yale, a History
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
 
Part One: The Critical Years, 1701-1739
1
46
1 Founding a College
3
8
2 Wanderjahre
11
12
3 The College Gets a Name
23
6
4 Ichabod
29
8
5 The Solid Accomplishments of Elisha Williams
37
10
Part Two: From Sectarian College to the University Spirit, 1740-1795
47
66
6 Tumultuous Years
49
24
7 The (Extended) Interregnum
73
18
8 The Rise of the University Spirit
91
22
Part Three: The Development of a National Institution, 1795-1871
113
120
9 College Becomes University
115
25
10 The Quiet Achievements of Jeremiah Day
140
31
11 President Woolsey and the Growth of the University
171
38
12 College Life under Day and Woolsey
209
24
Part Four: Age of Uncertainty, 1871-1921
233
134
13 Stagnation
235
38
14 Beginnings of Change
273
26
15 The Rise of the Extracurriculum
299
16
16 Revival
315
33
17 War and Reorganization
348
19
Part Five: Action and Inaction, 1921-1950
367
56
18 James Rowland Angell and the Triumph of the University
369
24
19 "Holding at the Three-Yard Line"
393
30
Part Six: The Modern Era, 1950-1963
423
38
20 March toward Greatness
425
36
Notes
461
88
Index
549
 
Maps
New Haven in 1802
frontispiece
 
Yale in 1865
207
 
Yale at the Bicentennial, 1901
319
 
Yale in 1963
454