WITS: The ’Open’ Years (EPUB) von Bruce Murray

This second volume by Bruce Murray looks at Wits University’s role in South Africa’s war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals, the rise of research and postgraduate study and the University’s defence to preserve its ‘open’ status.

Foreword by Yunus Ballim
Foreword by R.W. Charlton, Vice-Chancellor and Principal
Preface and Acknowledgements
Part I: World War II and the Ex-Volunteers
Chapter 1 Wits at War
Chapter 2 Raikes and the ‘Open University’ 1939–48
Chapter 3 Wits and the Ex-Volunteers
Chapter 4 World War II, the Ex-Volunteers and Student Politics
Part II: Wits in the Post-War Era 1945–1959
Chapter 5 Raikes, Student Politics and the Coming of Apartheid
Chapter 6 Profile of Wits
Chapter 7 Professional Faculties
Chapter 8 Arts and Science
Chapter 9 Defending the ‘Open University’
Chapter 10 End of an Era
Part III: Student Life
Chapter 11 Student Life in the 1950s – A.W. Stadler
Chapter 12 Wits Sport 1939–1959 – Jonty Winch
Notes
Index