TY - BOOK ID - 80876437 TI - Halfway up Parnassus : a personal account of the University of Toronto 1932-1971 PY - 1974 SN - 9781442632059 1442632054 9781442633735 1442633735 0802021727 9780802021724 1442651970 PB - Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - EDUCATION / History. KW - Bissell, Claude Thomas, KW - Bissell, Claude, KW - University of Toronto KW - U of T KW - UniversiteĢ de Toronto KW - Universitet Toronto KW - UToronto KW - University of King's College (Toronto, Ont.) KW - University of Toronto. KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80876437 AB - Halfway up Parnassus is a personal account of the University of Toronto with particular emphasis on the period when Dr. Bissell was its president, from 1958 to 1971. The first half of that period was the flowering of the old, self-confident university, with its established patterns of government, and its untroubled constituents. The second half saw the slow, powerful emergence of a new university, uncertain of itself and its role, seeking to find a form for democratic aspirations-not, however, without some dramatic confrontations with left-wing students. Nowhere in Canada was the process more sharply defined than at the University of Toronto. This book records that process from the point of view of a major participant. It is also intended as a series of portraits of major academic figures and as an intimate recollection of a society that is passing away. It is not a philosophical book about education, but a human document-an attempt to render the tone of academic society, and in this account Dr. Bissell has combined, to great effect, autobiography, descriptive narration, and historical analysis. The book will be of interest to Canadians concerned about our intellectual and cultural life, and to academic societies everywhere. ER -