Free Spirit : : A Biography of Mason Welch Gross / / Thomas W. Gross.

The Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University’s most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to become the university’s provost in 1...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Author’s Note
  • 1 Prologue: The Inauguration, 1959
  • 2 Postmark: Willcox, Arizona, 1928
  • 3 Postmark: Cambridge, England, 1930
  • 4 The Blind Date, 1939
  • 5 Postmark: Somewhere in Italy, 1944
  • 6 The Homecoming, 1945
  • 7 Goodbye to New York, 1946
  • 8 In the Second Chair, 1949
  • 9 Rutgers v. the Red Scare, 1954
  • 10 Philosophy of Education v. the “Big Lie”
  • 11 The Inauguration, 1959
  • 12 Into the Fishbowl, 1959
  • 13 The Cultural Wasteland, 1959
  • 14 Nothing at Rutgers Was Ever Easy
  • 15 Crisis, 1961
  • 16 Faith and Reason
  • 17 Score Once More, 1965
  • 18 The Inflection Point, 1965
  • 19 The Silent Steinway, 1965
  • 20 The Jewel in the Crown
  • 21 The Year Everything Went Wrong, 1968
  • 22 Law and Order, 1968
  • 23 Faith and Reason v. Law and Order
  • 24 June 1970
  • 25 Complicated, 1971
  • 26 Guggenheim, 1972
  • 27 The Door Opens, Then Closes Tight, 1975–1977
  • 28 The Last Post, 1977
  • 29 The Hope That Lies within You, 2020
  • Appendix: Personal Histories, Correspondence, Reminiscences, and Interviews
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index