The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert
Title The Lamp in the Desert PDF eBook
Author Ethel May Dell
Publisher 1st World Publishing
Pages 462
Release 2006-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1421821796

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A great roar of British voices pierced the jewelled curtain of the Indian night. A toast with musical honours was being drunk in the sweltering dining-room of the officers' mess. The enthusiastic hubbub spread far, for every door and window was flung wide. Though the season was yet in its infancy, the heat was intense. Markestan had the reputation in the Indian Army for being one of the hottest corners in the Empire in more senses than one, and Kurrumpore, the military centre, had not been chosen for any especial advantages of climate. So few indeed did it possess in the eyes of Europeans that none ever went there save those whom an inexorable fate compelled. The rickety, wooden bungalows scattered about the cantonment were temporary lodgings, not abiding-places. The women of the community, like migratory birds, dwelt in them for barely four months in the year, flitting with the coming of the pitiless heat to Bhulwana, their little paradise in the Hills. But that was a twenty-four hours' journey away, and the men had to be content with an occasional week's leave from the depths of their inferno, unless, as Tommy Denvers put it, they were lucky enough to go sick, in which case their sojourn in paradise was prolonged, much to the delight of the angels.

The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert
Title The Lamp in the Desert PDF eBook
Author Douglas D. Martin
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 329
Release 2014-09-10
Genre History
ISBN 1941451020

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With six teachers, no books, and thirty-two students, Old Main opened its doors to the first pupils of the University of Arizona in 1891. A rugged beacon among the cacti, the campus emerged from a forty-acre donation from two gamblers and a saloonkeeper. The Lamp in the Desert is Douglas D. Martin’s history of the first seventy-five years of the University of Arizona. From early football wins by Coach McKale to the work of celebrated scholars, this is a story of the places and the people whose names are still visible reminders of the early innovators that helped to build a world-class institution.

The Lamp

The Lamp
Title The Lamp PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 462
Release 1903
Genre American literature
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The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert
Title The Lamp in the Desert PDF eBook
Author Douglas De Veny Martin
Publisher
Pages 304
Release 1960
Genre
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Research and Relevant Knowledge

Research and Relevant Knowledge
Title Research and Relevant Knowledge PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Transaction Publishers
Pages 436
Release
Genre Education
ISBN 1412833132

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The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the federal government first relied on university scientists during the war, and how the resulting relationship set the pattern for the postwar mushrooming of academic research. The first half of the book analyzes the development of the postwar system of academic research, exploring the contributions of foundations, defense agencies, and universities. The second half depicts the rise of the "golden age" of academic research in the years after Sputnik (1957) and its eventual dissolution at the end of the 1960s graduate education. When the federal patron soon reduced its largesse, university students took the lead in challenging the putative hegemony of academic research. The loss of consensus quickly brought the malaise of the 1970s--stagnation, frustration, and equivocation about the research role. The final chapter appraises the renaissance of the 1980s, based largely on a rapprochement with the private sector, and ends by evaluating the embattled status of research universities at the beginning of the 1990s. Research and Relevant Knowledge provides the first authoritative analytical account of American research universities during their most fateful half-century. It will be of critical importance to all those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States. Roger L. Geiger is Distinguished Professor of Higher Education at the Pennsylvania State University. He has edited the History of Higher Education Annual since 1993, was a section editor for the Encyclopedia of Higher Education, and is the author of The American College in the Nineteenth Century, Private Sectors in Higher Education, and To Advance Knowledge, available from Transaction.

The Bookman

The Bookman
Title The Bookman PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 838
Release 1920
Genre Book collecting
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The Lamp in the Desert

The Lamp in the Desert
Title The Lamp in the Desert PDF eBook
Author Ethel May Dell
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 410
Release 1919
Genre India
ISBN 1442926775

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