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This biography explores how Mason Welch Gross helped reshape Rutgers University from a sleepy college into a world-renowned public research university, while steering it through the tumult of the Red Scare, civil rights era, and the Vietnam War by taking principled stands in favor of both racial equality and academic freedom.
Founded in 1872, the Glee Club is Rutgers University’s oldest continuously active student organization, as well as one of the first glee clubs in the United States. For the past 150 years, it has represented the university and presented an image of the Rutgers man on a national and international stage. This volume offers a comprehensive history of the Rutgers Glee Club, from its origins adopting traditions from the German Männerchor and British singing clubs to its current manifestation as a world-recognized ensemble. Along the way, we meet the colorful and charismatic men who have directed the group over the years, from the popular composer and minstrel performer Loren Bragdon to the cla...
Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Robert Blackburn (d.ca. 1794), an immigrant (possibly from Scotland), was in Catawba Valley, Tryon County, North Carolina during or before 1769. Descendants and relatives lived in North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, California and elsewhere.
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