ART CULTURE: ITS RELATION TO NATIONAL REFINEMENT AND NATIONAL MORALITY: An Oration Pronounced before the Alabama Alpha of the Society of the Phi Beta Kappa, at its Anniversary, July 11th, 1854
Tuscaloosa, AL: M. D. J. Slade, 1854. Original Wrappers. Very Good binding. Item #7071
Octavo. 25, [1] pp. First edition. As issued, stitched in salmon-colored printed wrappers; interestingly, all the "N"s in the subtitle are reversed on both the wrapper and the title page. There is a bleached area to the top margin of the front wrapper and to a much lesser degree, the rear wrapper; faint tideline to the top margin of the first few leaves; vertical crease through the entire pamphlet with some creasing to the top third of most leaves; early number stamp on the top of the front wrapper; very little wear.
A fairly presentable copy of this uncommon speech by Barnard. A New England-born academic, Barnard spent two decades in the south, most of it on the faculty of the University of Alabama. He returned north at the outbreak of the Civil War and before the war's conclusion would become the 10th president of Columbia University and was instrumental in shaping it into one of the leading universities. While he was not successful in his tenure, he laid the groundwork to forward women's education, lobbying for their admission into Columbia. The year of his death, Barnard College opened its doors across the street from Columbia, an arrangement Barnard did not support, preferring and pushing for Columbia to be coeducational. Barnard's legacy as a reformer, educator, and university administrator is difficult to overstate. Oxford American National Biography. Eberstadt 132-006; Ellison 898; Sabin 3457.
Price: $175.00