A Place Apart: The University of Melbourne : Decades of ChallengeA highly readable history of the University of Melbourne that examines its growth from a small provincial institution, educating the elite of a relatively narrow society, to a major teaching and research institution - changes of a magnitude which could never have been envisaged in 1935 when the story begins. |
Contents
Hard Times | 9 |
The Barretts of Collins Street | 24 |
War and Peace 19391948 | 60 |
Up the Country | 84 |
Headlong Hall | 110 |
The Doctors Dilemma 19521957 | 149 |
Put Out More Flags | 165 |
Measure for Measure 19591967 | 207 |
The Turn of the Screw 19661968 | 293 |
Episode A Tale of Two Cities | 317 |
The Return of the Native 19681970 | 330 |
Paradise Regained | 363 |
Erewhon | 399 |
Such is Life 19721975 | 415 |
The Way We Live Now | 442 |
Officers of the University 19351995 | 462 |
The Importance of Being in Earnest 19621965 | 242 |
Bleak House 19641965 | 264 |
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