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Query: Scholarly work

The item is hardbound. The author attended the Cheney Normal School for three years, then transferred to the University of Washington where he earned his BA degree. He returned to serve in the administration of the Normal School as an assistant to President Noah Showalter. Oliphant collaborated with Ceylon Kingston, vice president of the school, in building the Pacific Northwest Collection. He left the school shortly after completing work on this history to attend Harvard University where he earned his Ph.D. He went on to a distinguished career as a historian at Bucknell University. This work is documented very thoroughly and traces the development of the school within the political and economic development of the first twenty-five years of the new state of Washington. As institutional histories go, this book is a solid piece of scholary work.