R.B. Stewart and Purdue University by Ruth W. Freehafer - 1983-01

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1983. Hardcover. 0931682142 . In VG+ DJ (in protector) ; Beige cloth hardcover. B&W photos, bibliography, index. Bio of Perdue University's chief financial and business officer from 1925 - 1961 ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; XIV + 221 pages .

Purdue Univ Pr, 1983. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Firm binding; no loose pages; no writing or marks inside. Jacket with minor wear and encased in clear protective cover. From the dust jacket: "In the opinion of some, Robert Bruce Stewart, as Purdue University's chief financial and business officer from 1928 to 1961, had a greater single impact on the institution's destiny than any other individual in university history. . . . Quite simply, R.B. Stewart, Purdue's first vice-president and treasurer, was a most remarkable man whose imprint on the university - indeed, on contemporary U.S. higher education - is indelible. Purdue has for decades enjoyed the highest reputation for excellent financial management and unquestioned integrity in the handling of its resources."

West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University , 1983 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. 1983. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by R.B. Stewart on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a 1983 gift inscription 1st blank page. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Near Fine; Price Clipped; rubbing to panels; light bumps at head and tail. White cloth boards and spine with black lettering on the spine. 221 pp 8vo. R.B. Steward was Purdue's chief financial and business officer from 1925 to 1961 and had a great single impact on the institution's destiny than any other individual in university history. The author too the complex scenario of university financial and business activities an put them into a understandable format that becomes not only Stewart's biography but also a substantial history of the university's management. A clean very presentable copy.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.