Davis Thos (6 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. The centerpiece of the book is Phi Delta Theta, the first fraternity founded at Miami University in 1848, and this book explores the leading role its members played in the founding of southern colleges and the rise of southern universities. The book highlights the ways in which Phi Delta Theta was not simply an academic society but a community that assumed responsibility for the moral, intellectual, and spiritual growth of students in the antebellum south, a time of great social and political change. The author traces the ways in which Phi Delta Theta brothers transformed the American college fraternity system, developed university athletics, and promoted sportsmanship. The book also examines the chapter's contributions to college journalism, the American Civil War, and the growth of fraternal bonds. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No reference to printing, good + oversized (7 1/2 by 10 approx.) cloth hardcover decorated in black & gilt to cover and spine shows mild rubbing and shelfwear to covers, heavy staining to upper half portion of rear cover, bumping to corners, rubbing at edges with bit of rub though at spots opf bottom edges, soil to gilt page egdes, foxing and soil to endpapers and frontispiece, staining to upper corner of rear pastedown and last handful of pages,corner wrinkle to group of pages and occasional soil, etc to text block. 928 pages illustrated with numerous portraits, scenes, etc. Still a tight copy that will look great on the shelf of this collection of speeches, lectures, sermons, and letters designating the highlight of Irish eloquence that was sold by subscription only.