R. Douglas Brackenridge's Trinity University: A Tale of Three Cities PDF

By R. Douglas Brackenridge

ISBN-10: 0911536000

ISBN-13: 9780911536003

ISBN-10: 1595347895

ISBN-13: 9781595347893

Since its founding in 1869 via the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Trinity college has been engaged in figuring out the desires of its founders to turn into “a college of the top order.” In Trinity college: A story of 3 Cities, R. Douglas Brackenridge, professor emeritus of faith at Trinity, brings a wealth of scholarship and data to this institutional history.

Brackenridge lines Trinity’s precise historical past from its founding in Tehuacana and development in Waxahachie to its emergence in San Antonio as a best deepest college for the research of liberal arts and sciences. He attracts on old documents and stories, oral histories, newspaper debts, books, correspondence, and data to record the university’s demanding situations and successes. He describes Trinity’s improvement in the broader context of personal, church-related universities in the United States, whereas profiling the directors, college, employees, and scholars who've contributed to Trinity’s wealthy heritage.

The result's a well-researched tale of the founding and the development of 1 of the nation’s unprecedented associations for larger studying. Illustrations photograph Trinity’s campuses in 3 towns and comprise black and white photographs.

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