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Both a life story and a portrait of public higher education during the twentieth century, Harry Huntt Ransom captures the spirit of a dynamic individual who dedicated his talents to nurturing intellectual life in Texas and beyond. Tracing the details of Ransom's youth in Galveston and Tennessee and his education at Yale, where he earned a doctorate, Alan Gribben provides new insight into the factors that shaped Ransom's future as a renowned administrator and defender of the humanities.
Ransom's career at the University of Texas began in 1935, when he was hired as an instructor of English. He rose through the ranks to become chancellor, stepping down in 1971 during a volatile period when debates about the University's central mission raged-particularly over the question of commercializing higher education. The development of Ransom's lasting legacy, the Humanities Research Center bearing his name, is explored in depth as well. Bringing to life a legendary figure, Harry Huntt Ransom is a colorful testament to a singular man of letters who had the audacity to propose "that there be established somewhere in Texas-let's say in the capital city-a center of our cultural compass, a research center to be the BibliothÈque Nationale of the only state that started out as an independent nation."
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
About the Author
Chapter One: Beginnings
Chapter Two: Texas, Tennessee, Travels
Chapter Three: The Scholar
Chapter Four: The Teacher
Chapter Five: The Bare Fact of War
Chapter Six: Climbing the Administrative Ladder
Chapter Seven: The Rare Books Collection
Chapter Eight: The Texas Quarterly
Chapter Nine: The Rare Books Collection and the Academic Center
Chapter Ten: Vice President and Provost
Chapter Eleven: University President
Chapter Twelve: The Chancellor
Chapter Thirteen: Cambridge on the Range
Chapter Fourteen: A University in Transition
Chapter Fifteen: Prerogatives and Protests
Chapter Sixteen: A Chancellor's Prophecies
Chapter Seventeen: Staying the Course
Chapter Eighteen: "Mr. University"
Chapter Nineteen: Farewells
Chapter Twenty: Legacies
Notes
Index



