Download or read book Dignity, Discourse, and Destiny written by Darwin H. Stapleton and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Childhood -- Harvard, Oxford, and marriage -- In the Navy -- Return to education : Princeton -- The Woodrow Wilson Program years -- Swarthmore College at mid-century -- Swarthmore looks for Courtney -- Inauguration -- The case for the liberal arts college -- Faculty -- "There is strength-- in having a variety of sources of support" : funding the liberal arts tradition -- Networks of support and service : behind the presidency -- "Nature shaped to advantage" : preserving campus viability -- Student activism : "to care about social justice"--Two decades of student life at Swarthmore -- "Personal things"--Administration of a college -- The final year -- Conclusion