On and Off the Campus was first published in 1938. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.The garnered wisdom of an educational statesman will be found in this volume, which honors Dean Ford's twenty-fifth anniversary as head of the graduate school of the University of Minnesota. Here is most of what Dean Ford has committed to paper during a notable career of thirty years as publicist, historian, educational administrator, and editor.An introductory biographical sketch and appreciation by Dr. George E. Vincent, former president of the University and of the Rockefeller Foundation, contains reminiscences of Dean Ford's boyhood, which have never appeared in print, and a great deal of the human side of the man. In his sketch Dr. Vincent quotes from appraisals by Dean Ford's friends and associates, among them the historian Charles A. Beard, who says: "I know no other scholar in America who may be called more disinterested in the best sense of that word. Dean Ford would rather enlarge knowledge and enrich wisdom than conquer an antagonist.""Dean Ford's writing," comments Dr. Vincent, "whether it is in scholarly vein or in some more popular form, is not only clear, well ordered, and informing; it has also a literary quality that yields charm, color, and distinction."The papers include Dean Ford's frank discussion of how to improve the college faculty, his account of the wartime work of the Committee on Public Information (of which he was a division chief), his story of the organization of The Mayo Foundation, his tribute to Governor Floyd B. Olson, and a generous selection of newspaper editorials, the authorship of which is revealed for the first time in this book.Here is Dean Ford's address as 1937 president of the American Historical Association which Dean Vincent calls "an admirable example of his abilities at their best. With urbanity, modesty, a gentle humor touched lightly with irony, and yet with spacious views and an undercurrent of earnest conviction, he presents his philosophy of the American historian's function."Herein, published for the first time, is the strange story of the lost year in the life of Baron Stein as revealed by the same documents which fell into Dean Ford's hands following the publication of his biography of Stein in 1922.This volume, which represents the wide ranging interests of a great liberal scholar-administrator, will be valued not only by Dean Ford's countless personal friends but by all friends of higher education throughout the world.
- ISBN10 0816672393
- ISBN13 9780816672394
- Publish Date 1 January 1938
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Minnesota Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 524
- Language English