The story of an extraordinary Midwestern academic and cultural institution
George M. Waller (1919--2003), a dedicated teacher and active scholar, taught in the Department of History at Butler University from 1954 to 1990 and chaired the department for many of those years. His books included Puritanism in Early America; Samuel Vetch, Colonial Enterpriser; and American Revolution in the West. Late in his career Dr. Waller was named the McGregor Professor of Humanities, and in 1990 Governor Evan Bayh named him a Sagamore of the Wabash. He died as this book was nearing completion. The project was prepared for publication by his widow, Martha Waller, and his editor, Roberta Diehl, working in close collaboration with Paul Hanson in the Department of History at Butler.
Foreword
ix
Bobby Fong
Preface
xi
Martha S. Waller
Acknowledgments
xv
I. The College Avenue Campus
Beginnings
1
(21)
North Western Christian University
22
(22)
Life on the College Avenue Campus
44
(15)
Prominence amidst Penury
59
(22)
II. Butler at Irvington
A New Campus, a New Name, Old Problems
81
(18)
Faculty---The Next Generation
99
(15)
Education at a Small College
114
(17)
College and Church
131
(23)
The Campus of Old Butler
154
(26)
Life on the Irvington Campus
180
(18)
Toward a New Vision
198
(14)
Building the New Butler
212
(19)
III. Becoming a University
To Be or Not to Be---A University
231
(29)
The Organized Student
260
(20)
Publications
280
(11)
IV. Butler at Fairview
The Times Were Out of Joint
291
(16)
The Issue of Control
307
(21)
Depression Decade
328
(21)
Butler and the Nation at War
349
(14)
Toward the Centennial
363
(21)
Fairview Faculty
384
(22)
The Good Years
406
(12)
Season of Discontent
418
(24)
A New Broom
442
(30)
Legacy
472
(7)
Appendix: Presidential Profiles
479
(10)
Selected Bibliography
489
(4)
Index
493
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