University Builder: Edgar Odell Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute

by John B. Boles

Book Overview

Rice University, one of America?s preeminent institutions of higher education, grew out of the vision, direction, and leadership of one man: Edgar Odell Lovett (1871?1957). University Builder is the fascinating story of this extraordinary educator and the unique school he created. Widely acknowledged, almost from its founding in 1912, as one of America?s best universities, Rice is distinguished as both the smallest and the youngest institution in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807132756
• ISBN13: 9780807132753
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"