The American college in the nineteenth century
Counter Roger L. Geiger’s collection of essays and interpretive introduction shows the growth of colleges in America over the nineteenth century, from eighteen schools at the beginning of the century to 450 Universities by the end, which transformed the life of the nation
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville :
Vanderbilt University Press
2000
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Vanderbilt issues in higher education
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Curriculum and enrollment / David B. Potts
- The rights of man and the rites of youth / Leon Jackson
- College as it was in the mid nineteenth century / Roger L. Geiger with Julie Ann Bubolz
- "We desired our future rulers to be educated men" / Michael Sugrue
- Agency, denominations, and the western colleges, 1830-1860 / James Findlay
- The era of multipurpose colleges in American higher education, 1850-1890 / Roger L. Geiger
- The rise and fall of useful knowledge / Roger L. Geiger
- "A salutary rivalry" / Margaret A. Nash
- The "superior instruction of women," 1836-1890 / Roger L. Geiger
- Noah Porter writ large? / Peter Dobkin Hall
- The German model and the graduate school / James Turner and Paul Bernard
- A "curious working of cross purposes" in the founding of the University of Chicago / Willard J. Pugh
- The crisis of the old order / Roger L. Geiger
