A History of Colgate University 1819-1969 (Hardcover-Used) by Howard D. Williams

The Baptist Education Society of the State of New Yprk opened the institution that was to become Colgate University in 1820, a year that saw the population of the U.S. grow to over nine million. The site of the new school was Hamilton New York an area not far removed in time and place from the frontier romanticized by Fenimore Cooper. The  book is highly relevant to our own troubled times. The failures and successes, the troubles and tranquillities of an earlier age have much meaning for contemporary alumni, students and faculty. As a bonus, the many illustrations and photographs provide a microhistory of the American male's changing styles in hirsute adornment. Used hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket is creased at bottom. 1969.

The Baptist Education Society of the State of New Yprk opened the institution that was to become Colgate University in 1820, a year that saw the population of the U.S. grow to over nine million. The site of the new school was Hamilton New York an area not far removed in time and place from the frontier romanticized by Fenimore Cooper. The  book is highly relevant to our own troubled times. The failures and successes, the troubles and tranquillities of an earlier age have much meaning for contemporary alumni, students and faculty. As a bonus, the many illustrations and photographs provide a microhistory of the American male's changing styles in hirsute adornment. Used hardcover in very good condition. Dust jacket is creased at bottom. 1969. P076.