Halfway Up Parnassus: A Personal Account of the University of Toronto, 1932-1971

by Claude Thomas Bissell

Book Overview

Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, uncertain of itself and its role, seeking to find...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442651970
• ISBN13: 9781442651975
• Release Date: December 1974
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher