Title: Publications (non-serial) and Reports, 1856-present
ID: 06/P
Extent: 64.0 Cubic Feet
History of Carleton College from the founding of the college in 1866 to 1966. Written for the centennial of the college.
From the original jacket:
The story of Carleton is the story of a pioneer "New England college in the Middle West." It is the chronicle of a small, struggling liberal arts college founded with missionary zeal by Minnesota Congregationalists a hundred years ago [as of publication in 1966]. From its humble sectarian beginnings, the institution has gown in the intervening years to a position of national leadership in the intellectual life of the country as a whole.
Since its humble beginning in what was once a shabby hotel in Northfield, Carleton has acquired a beautiful and extensive campus and erected upon it 28 major buildings. It has moved forward under five presidents in the span of a century; for 86 years of that time only three presidents directed its destinies. The continuity of educational leadership provided by their uniquely long terms of office has had a marked effect on the steady upward progress of the College. Mainly through their prodigious efforts and determination the fledgling "Northfield College" which at first had literally to beg for daily sustenance now has total assets of $37,000,000.
In the Centennial Year of 1966, the College is observing with appropriate events--symposiums, lectures, concerts, and exhibitions--the upward sweep of a full (remarkably full) hundred years. Symbol of this celebration and record of its raison d'etre is this volume of "The Centennial History of Carleton College."
