College and University Books

This book gives the reader a good idea of the basis of Seventh-Day Adventist health facility. It goes through the history of the acquisition and formulation of Loma Linda - one of the top medical and teaching facilities in the US.

Reviewed by David Olvera for Reader Views (5/07)

If ever there was a Bible of quotes on the subject of The University of Texas Longhorn's football, "Longhorn Madness" is it. You'll be hard pressed to acquire a more comprehensive group of quotations on UT football as Wilton Sharpe has managed to corral. Sharpe does a good job of avoiding a shotgun approach by arranging his cornucopia of quotes into relevant chapters and themes. Sharpe includes some ancient, old, and new school. From the 1890s (I'm not kidding...) to Darrell Royal on up to Vince Young, Sharpe leaves no stone unturned. He even reaches across the aisles to sworn enemies to get their take on the Burnt Orange phenomenon.

Sharpe could have left it at that and would have pieced together a decent sports book, but he takes it one step further. In between all the pigskin talk he includes short narratives of key historical and legendary events. So in case you're overwhelmed by the Longhorn quotes stampede you can rest your eyes on a quick story here and there. Sharpe also includes nifty rosters of all the UT Championship teams at the end of the book.

"Longhorn Madness" also includes some pictures along the way. Most of the portraits are pretty good for black and white paperback copy, but others leave something to be desired. All in all, the only downside of the book is couple of grainy pictures here and there. The cover is appropriately burnt orange with a great shot of Vince Young running through a pack of Mizzou Tigers.

Now I'd say that this book could be destined to any fan's Lavatory Readers Club, but it has more practical applications. "Longhorn Madness" presents the reader with a great tool for research. Any kid writing about the Longhorns for a school paper or a sports writer looking for some good copy can use the book to their advantage. Sharpe has done a lot of work and people can take advantage of his research. To sum it up, it's a great archive of all things Longhorns from the guys who walked the walked.

College boxing as a national experiment lasted only a few decades. Its most popular and most successful team was coach John Walsh's University of Wisconsin Badgers, and this book is their story. They demonstrated all of boxing's fascinating contradictions, and exemplified the reasons for the college sport's boisterous birth and sudden death. While boxers were the most lionized athletes on campus, Walsh discouraged his students from thinking in terms of pro careers. Despite the fact that boxers enjoyed great camaraderie,even with their opponents, nothing in sport really parallels the personal physical attack of a hard punch to the face. And while boxing, with a blow heard round the college world, brought death to Wisconsin's Charlie Mohr in the ring in 1960, it brought a richer and fuller life to almost every other one of its participants. For some, it turned pretty dismal prospects into an open highway to success and fulfillment, and to all it offered a family of brothers that survived the decisions to pull the plug on boxing after the Mohr tragedy in 1960, and exists to the present day. Doug Moe's dogged resarch has yielded up a tale that paints the sunrise and the sunset of this most intimate of athletic competitions at the college level and, along the way, lays to rest what the Smithsonian Magazine was recently calling the "controversial" dispute concerning whether Mohr's death was really caused by a blow in the ring. All of the men whose memories went into this book are old now, and while they are going down swinging, they are leaving us. Anyone who has ever been captivated by the dizzying mysteries of the sweet science owes Doug Moe a debt for realizing that this story had to be told now if it were going to be told at all, and for telling so well that readers can shut their eyes and feel the excitement of 15,000 fans packing the old Fieldhouse as the house lights go down and two spotlit figures enter the ring.

Carl Bridenbaugh examines three major cultures of the eighteenth-century colonial South. Bridenbaugh examines the individual characters of the Chesapeake, the South Carolina Lowcountry and the Southern Backcountry. A thorough and colorful portrait of life in each culture is offered.

There were multiple cultures in the South. Bridenbaugh examines three Southern societies, and the contrasts between them are illuminating. The book concentrates on developments after the formative seventeenth century, and before the tumult of the Revolution.

Great book and a must have for any fan of Louisville Athletics and fans of NCAA football. Gives great insight in the difficulties the program has gone through and the amazing strides it makes yearly.

In an era when novels usually deliver sex, cruelty, and violence in blunt and brutal prose, it's a pleasure to read this fluent, allusive, witty, and thoroughly enjoyable prose about sex, cruelty, and violence. George Stade blends a realistically low estimate of human aspirations with an energizing enthusiasm for enjoying them, and it's impossible not to enjoy them along with him.

Lower Moments in Higher Education tells selected stories of the author's experiences throughout his higher education career. The true stories provide a framework which tactfully leads to the question of ethics related to the story. I liked the way each story had a message. This book is a must read for the novice and seasoned alike. The book would also be a great required reading for higher education students as well as sitting executives

This novel surpasses all Lentricchia's other efforts thus far. Playful, but obsessively serious, this book teaches us more than anything else. For this the professor comes through, as well as my understanding.

Major in Success can be misleading if you buy by impulse. It WONT teach you how to study or how to have great grades. However, it will do more than that - it WILL teach you to be successful and get your dream career.

What if you don't know what your dream career is? Well, you are not alone! Before reading this book I didn't know either, but the first part of the book will guide you in learning all your interests and then mix them to discover the perfect job for you.

And if that wasn't enough, you will then learn how to actually get it: break your fears, enrich your life, and have fun in college, while building the curriculum and getting the connections that will get you there.

This book changed my life and totally inspired me. It also has some wonderful cartoons and inspiring stories about real people. And toward the end has a wonderful manual, The Rules of Being Human, that our soul certainly read before dropping on earth but which, according to the last term of the contract, it forgot.

A refreshing attitude toward college, wonderfully written and inspiring, Major in Success is more than a book about success in college; it is a book about success in LIFE - all aspects of it.

PS: In case you didn't get the message: *buy it*; it will change your life!

I came across this book at a library whiledoing a paper for class about the struggle for integration at Ole Miss. This is one library book I wanted to steal.An invaluabe resource to those wanting to read on the history of Mississippi higher education. Along with Nadine Cohodas' The Band Played Dixie, history doesn't get any better or easier to read than this.