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Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the Univeristy of Connecticut, 1881–2006
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RED BRICK IN THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS: CREATING THE UNIVERISTY OF CONNECTICUT, 1881–2006. By Bruce M Stave, with Laura Burmeister, Michael Neagle, Leslie Horner Papandrea, and Sondra Astor Stave. Hanover, Germany: University Press of New England, 2006. 355 pp. Softcover, $29.95.
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At first blush, the opportunity to read the history of a university from which you did not graduate, for which you do not work, or near which you do not live, may not sound all that appealing. However, to dismiss Bruce M. Stave's Red Brick in the Land of Steady Habits: Creating the University of Connecticut, 1881–2006 would be a mistake of considerable proportions, for not only is the volume enlightening with regard to higher education in the United States over the course of the twentieth century, it is also the proverbial "good read."
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