LEADER 04135nam 2200481 450 001 9910824172203321 005 20230629222522.0 010 $a1-9788-0834-8 010 $a1-9788-0836-4 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978808362 035 $a(CKB)4100000012037277 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6735670 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6735670 035 $a(OCoLC)1272996291 035 $a(DE-B1597)612834 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978808362 035 $a(OCoLC)1294426924 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012037277 100 $a20220626d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFree spirit $ea biography of Mason Welch Gross /$fThomas W. Gross 210 1$aNew Brunswick, NJ :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (343 pages) 311 $a1-9788-0833-X 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAuthor?s Note -- $t1 Prologue: The Inauguration, 1959 -- $t2 Postmark: Willcox, Arizona, 1928 -- $t3 Postmark: Cambridge, England, 1930 -- $t4 The Blind Date, 1939 -- $t5 Postmark: Somewhere in Italy, 1944 -- $t6 The Homecoming, 1945 -- $t7 Goodbye to New York, 1946 -- $t8 In the Second Chair, 1949 -- $t9 Rutgers v. the Red Scare, 1954 -- $t10 Philosophy of Education v. the ?Big Lie? -- $t11 The Inauguration, 1959 -- $t12 Into the Fishbowl, 1959 -- $t13 The Cultural Wasteland, 1959 -- $t14 Nothing at Rutgers Was Ever Easy -- $t15 Crisis, 1961 -- $t16 Faith and Reason -- $t17 Score Once More, 1965 -- $t18 The Inflection Point, 1965 -- $t19 The Silent Steinway, 1965 -- $t20 The Jewel in the Crown -- $t21 The Year Everything Went Wrong, 1968 -- $t22 Law and Order, 1968 -- $t23 Faith and Reason v. Law and Order -- $t24 June 1970 -- $t25 Complicated, 1971 -- $t26 Guggenheim, 1972 -- $t27 The Door Opens, Then Closes Tight, 1975?1977 -- $t28 The Last Post, 1977 -- $t29 The Hope That Lies within You, 2020 -- $tAppendix: Personal Histories, Correspondence, Reminiscences, and Interviews -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Mason Gross School of the Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey, stands as a memorial to one of Rutgers University?s most influential leaders. Gross started teaching at Rutgers as an assistant professor of philosophy in 1946, but quickly rose through the ranks to become the university?s provost in 1949 and finally its president from 1959 to 1971. He led the university through an era when it experienced both some of its greatest growth and most intense controversies. Free Spirit explores how Gross helped reshape Rutgers from a sleepy college into a world-renowned public research university. It also reveals how he steered the university through the tumult of the Red Scare, civil rights era, and the Vietnam War by taking principled stands in favor of both racial equality and academic freedom. This biography tells the story of how, from an early age, Gross came to believe in the importance of doing what was right, even when the backlash took a toll on his own health. Written by his youngest son Thomas, this book offers a uniquely well-rounded portrait of Gross as both a public figure and a private person. Covering everything from his service in World War II to his stints as a game-show personality, Free Spirit introduces the reader to a remarkable academic leader. 606 $aPresidents$vBiography 610 $aMason Welch Gross, Biography, New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers, Rutgers University, professor, teacher, philosophy, university, history, Education, memoir, public university, Red Scare, civil rights movement, civil rights era, Vietnam War, public figure, faculty, Mason Gross School of the Arts, scarlet knights, academia, higher education, college, research university. 615 0$aPresidents 676 $a973.099 700 $aGross$b Thomas W.$01668938 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910824172203321 996 $aFree spirit$94029896 997 $aUNINA