The American College and University: A HistoryUniversity of Georgia Press, 1 lug 2011 - 616 pagine First published in 1962, Frederick Rudolph's groundbreaking study, The American College and University, remains one of the most useful and significant works on the history of higher education in America. Bridging the chasm between educational and social history, this book was one of the first to examine developments in higher education in the context of the social, economic, and political forces that were shaping the nation at large. Surveying higher education from the colonial era through the mid-twentieth century, Rudolph explores a multitude of issues from the financing of institutions and the development of curriculum to the education of women and blacks, the rise of college athletics, and the complexities of student life. In his foreword to this new edition, John Thelin assesses the impact that Rudolph's work has had on higher education studies. The new edition also includes a bibliographic essay by Thelin covering significant works in the field that have appeared since the publication of the first edition. At a time when our educational system as a whole is under intense scrutiny, Rudolph's seminal work offers an important historical perspective on the development of higher education in the United States. |
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Pagina 8
... Yale and Princeton contributed a new purpose to the life of the colonial college - the carrying on of sectarian contro- versy , the pursuit of denominational survival in an environ- ment of religious diversity . The Collegiate School in ...
... Yale and Princeton contributed a new purpose to the life of the colonial college - the carrying on of sectarian contro- versy , the pursuit of denominational survival in an environ- ment of religious diversity . The Collegiate School in ...
Pagina 9
... Yale that things were indeed looking up . Having chosen to address themselves to Elihu Yale in the metaphor of pregnancy , the New Haven group pushed their thoughts where their metaphor perforce took them : The affair of our School hath ...
... Yale that things were indeed looking up . Having chosen to address themselves to Elihu Yale in the metaphor of pregnancy , the New Haven group pushed their thoughts where their metaphor perforce took them : The affair of our School hath ...
Pagina 10
... Yale ? Mather's flirtation with Yale was a reflection of declining Puritan orthodoxy at Harvard , where honest disagreement among good Puritans led to a spirit of toleration ; where , as the decades passed , economic prosperity ...
... Yale ? Mather's flirtation with Yale was a reflection of declining Puritan orthodoxy at Harvard , where honest disagreement among good Puritans led to a spirit of toleration ; where , as the decades passed , economic prosperity ...
Pagina 15
... Yale's success in recruiting presidents led to legis- lative appropriations to communities deprived of their minis- ters . In 1726 Newington and in 1739 Windham received from the legislature what in a later century and for another ...
... Yale's success in recruiting presidents led to legis- lative appropriations to communities deprived of their minis- ters . In 1726 Newington and in 1739 Windham received from the legislature what in a later century and for another ...
Pagina 17
... Yale . At a time when Harvard was spurning George Whitefield , Yale was being thrown into considerable turmoil by the contro- versies which he inspired in New Haven . For a time official Yale withstood the new revivalism , not with the ...
... Yale . At a time when Harvard was spurning George Whitefield , Yale was being thrown into considerable turmoil by the contro- versies which he inspired in New Haven . For a time official Yale withstood the new revivalism , not with the ...
Sommario
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The College Movement | 44 |
The Religious Life | 68 |
The Collegiate Way | 86 |
Reform and Reaction | 110 |
The Extracurriculum | 136 |
The Emerging University | 264 |
The Elective Principle | 287 |
The Education of Women | 307 |
Flowering of the University Movement | 329 |
Progressivism and the Universities | 355 |
The Rise of Football | 373 |
Academic Man | 394 |
The Organized Institution | 417 |
Academic Balance of Power | 156 |
Financing the Colleges | 177 |
Jacksonian Democracy and the Colleges | 201 |
Crisis of the 1850s | 221 |
Dawning of a New Era | 241 |
Counterrevolution | 440 |
An American Consensus | 462 |
Epilogue | 483 |
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Pagina 209 - This, Sir, is my case. It is the case not merely of that humble institution, it is the case of every college in the land. It is more. It is the case of every eleemosynary institution throughout our country, — of all those great charities founded by the piety of our ancestors, to alleviate human misery, and scatter blessings along the pathway of life. " It is more ! It is, in some sense, the case of every man...
Pagina 237 - Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month, — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute in the meanwhile, and had received a Rodgers penknife from his father?
Pagina 220 - We have produced an article for which the demand is diminishing. We sell it at less than cost, and the deficiency is made up by charity. We give it away, and still the demand diminishes.
Pagina 209 - Shall our State Legislatures be allowed to take that which is not their own, to turn it from its original use, and apply it to such ends or purposes as they, in their discretion, shall see fit!
Pagina 94 - But to resume our old theme of scholars and their whereabout," said the Baron, with an unusual glow, caught, no doubt, from the golden sunshine, imprisoned, like the student Anselmus, in the glass bottle ; " where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat ; or in the dark, gray town, where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?
Pagina 330 - I confess that I am unable to divine what is to be ultimately the position of colleges which cannot become universities and which will not be gymnasia. I cannot see what reason they will have to exist.
Pagina 12 - WHEREAS Institutions for liberal Education are highly beneficial to Society by forming the rising Generation to Virtue, „ , . Knowledge, and useful Literature; and thus preserving in the Community a Succession of Men duly qualified for discharging the Offices of Life with Usefulness and Reputation...
Pagina 210 - It is, sir, as I have said, a small College. And yet there are those who love it.
Pagina 237 - I mean that they should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?