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An Experiment That Has Proved Itself
Rollins College
15 years after President Holt enacted the Conference Plan at Rollins College, this booklet demonstrates how the elements of the plan were enacted in student life with text descriptions and pictures.
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Report of the Curriculum Conference Held at Rollins College, January 19-24, 1931
John Dewey
In January 1931, Rollins hosted a Curriculum Conference, with the distinguished educator John Dewey as chairman. Leading educators gathered to discuss a number of matters, including core curricula, general education and purpose of a bachelor’s degree as a whole. The resulting recommendations–which emphasized "Individualization in Education"–were implemented by Rollins in the fall of 1931. So provocative were these innovations that Sinclair Lewis, in his Stockholm address accepting the Nobel Prize in literature, listed Rollins as one of only four colleges in the United States doing the most to encourage creative work in contemporary literature.
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Rollins After Dark: The Hamilton Holt School's Nontraditional Journeys
Randy Noles
Rollins After Dark is a fascinating history of the eclectic program (and larger-than-life characters) that provided the underpinning of what would become today's Hamilton Holt School - the Rollins College evening program. Although 2019 is the Holt School's 60th anniversary, so-called "adult education" has been offered by the College for more than 80 years. In Rollins After Dark, Randy Noles presents an engaging and entertaining account of the development of the Hamilton Holt School at Rollins College. From a series of popular public spectacles focusing on diverse topics, to a serious academic program for degree-seeking, nontraditional students, the evolution of adult education at Rollins includes some of the most innovative thinkers of the 20th century. This roller-coaster narrative demonstrates that, over the decades, many of the most interesting things that have happened at the picture-postcard college have happened at night.
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Rollins Architecture: A Profile of Current and Historical Buildings
Wenxian Zhang, Eneido Bano, and Charles Stevens
The Rollins College campus has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful in America. Bordered by a picturesque lake and punctuated by majestic oaks and pines, it would be difficult to think of a more idyllic spot to engage in the pursuit of higher learning. Just as Rollins’ founders sought to bring to the Florida frontier the high-quality education of the New England colleges and universities of the late 18th century, they constructed the school’s first buildings in the same New England style. It was not until Rollins’ visionary eighth president, Hamilton Holt, that the College established its identity—in the manner of its education and the design of its architecture. Today, Holt’s groundbreaking, student-centered approach to teaching, with classes modeled on the editorial conferences Holt conducted for his magazine, is replicated in institutions across the country. The Spanish Mediterranean style Holt favored for the College’s buildings, however, has remained distinctively Rollins’, becoming the College’s visual signature. We celebrate Rollins’ architectural history and salute our predecessors for their taste and judgment. Our work educating Rollins students to fulfill their responsibilities as global citizens and responsible leaders is enhanced by the ideals of beauty and balance represented in the structures in which we live and learn.
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Rollins Pictorial: Being Random Views of Rollins College and the City of Winter Park
Edwin Osgood Grover and Rollins College
This "Rollins Pictorial" is an attempt to show you Rollins College as it is, and give you a glimpse of the beautiful town of Winter Park which the College calls "home". Corra Harris in her delightful essay "A Town That Became a University," calls Winter Park "a wide, winding, lovely little old town, defined by a necklace of opal lakes. It is shaded by live oaks, pines and camphor trees, and spreads out like a tropical garden in the sun-a rare old narcissus of a town always regarding its green shadows and flame-flower spires in the mirrors of its many lakes."
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The First Fox Days, 1956-1969
Hugh F. McKean and Evelyn Draper
The First Fox Days, 1956-1969 is a small book outlining the origins of Rollins College's Fox Day, a day for the whole college family to spend time together. It includes a short history of Fox Days, a chronology of how it has changed over the years up to 1969, and copies of Rollins College President Hugh F. McKean's proclamations to the student body for Fox Day.
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The Letterbook of Frederick Wolcott Lyman
Frederick Wolcott Lyman
The Lyman Letterbook chronicles the administrative, financial and academic concerns during the early years of Rollins College as well as the hardships encountered by the College and the Winter Park community in the late 1880's. As President of the Rollins College Corporation, Lyman oversaw much of the workings the College even though he was only in Winter Park for the Winter season. The letters document the close involvement Lyman had with the construction and furnishing of the early campus buildings and with the finances of the College.
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The Letterbook of Reverend Edward P. Hooker
Edward P. Hooker
Reverend Edward P. Hooker (1834-1904), the Founding Minister of the First Congregational Church of Winter Park, became the first President of Rollins College in 1885. The letters collected here date from the last year of his administration (1891-1892) and illustrate some of the challenges facing a new institution in what was then a frontier state, including financial constraints and legal difficulties. Equally evident, however, is President Hooker’s steadfast belief in the College and its mission. As he wrote in 1885, “the outlook is grand and glorious . . . We rejoice in the privilege of laying the foundations for the future.”
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The William Sloane Kennedy Memorial Collection of Whitmaniana
Kathleen J. Reich
This catalog describes the inventory of archival materials in the William Sloane Kennedy Papers and The Walt Whitman collection in the Rollins College archives and special collections department.
"In biographies of Walt Whitman, William Sloane Kennedy usually gets little more than a brief mention as one of Whitman's most fervid supporters late in the poet's life. He deserves far more attention, however, and the appearance of this catalogue of the William Sloane Kennedy Memorial Collection of Whitmaniana at Rollins College will facilitate the kind of careful study that his life and work clearly merit." From the Preface by Ed Folsom.
Publications documenting the history of Rollins College, including its architecture, traditions, student life, and curriculum.
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