Author : Robert Allan Stevens
Release : 2017-03-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 305/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anticipation exceeded realization by : Robert Allan Stevens
Download or read book Anticipation exceeded realization written by Robert Allan Stevens. This book was released on 2017-03-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Illinois State University was typical of colleges in the American antebellum period. Springfield's community boosters welcomed the new college as a civic adornment. Determined men of the cloth envisioned a prestigious institution like the one at which they learned the "artes liberals" and the Lutheran catechism. But turbulent times undermined their heroic efforts to sustain the school. The saga of ISU is a short arc from eager anticipation to bitter realization.