FIVE DECADES OF PROGRESS. EASTERN KENTUCKY STATE COLLEGE, RICHMOND, KENTUCKY 1906-1957.

1957, xxiii, 358pp, profusely illustrated. VG in G, lightly chipped and soiled dj. Inscribed and signed to the previous owner by the late Kentucky historian, J. Winston Coleman, Jr. on the front pastedown, and with Coleman's bookplate. Paraphrased from the introduction: This book is a sequel to THREE DECADES OF PROGRESS.published in 1936. The history is not complete in every detail. Nevertheless, it reveals in a large measure the most important phases of the life and growth of the College from its infancy to its present full grown condition - from 1906-7 when it was hardly a college, until it began conferring degrees in 1925 and arrived at its current standing. Written by forty members of the faculty.