Schools of all title and description were started with help from the Freedman's Bureau, the American Missionary Association, northern churches, and Reconstruction governments. They sought to meet the overwhelming needs for literacy and ...
... on Rittenhouse Square were convinced that S. Weir Mitchell was the most versatile American since Franklin and probably a genius, too.69 Certainly his accomplishments were many: his Gunshot Wounds and Other Injuries to the Nerves, ...
Swain and Mary Mitchell , daughter of Elisha , even traveled to New York to see Donaldson in June 1846 to discuss the new halls and grounds . This ducal gardener's arrival must have been considered quite important , as Donaldson ...
Morley and Barry, with Kitty Foyle and The Philadelphia Story, have received far more popular acclaim than Burt, whose Along These Streets is a less stereotyped and far more sensitive portrait of Proper Philadelphia; they have exploited ...
... 1939–1945: A Documentary History” (Austin: Student Committee for Academic Freedom, University of Texas Students' Association, 1946); Texas Senate, Investigation of the University of Texas by the Senate Investigating Committee, ...
The men who built these departments—Robert Millikan at Caltech, Harrison Randall at Michigan, Raymond Birge at California, Percy Bridgman at Harvard, Karl Compton at Princeton, and his brother Arthur Holly Compton at Chicago—were all ...
Although the vicissitudes of federal-university relations are one crucial element of this history, the focus is on the universities themselves, their internal aspirations to conduct research, and their adaptations to external constraints ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, “Report of the President to the Board of Trustees, 1938–39” (unpub.), Special Collections, UCL. David Stevens to Harold Swift, January 25, 1928, President's Papers, 1925–45, 3:8, Special Collections, UCL.
At the University of Chicago, Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler publicized a more dogmatic version of great books, the approach subsequently employed by Buchanan and Barr. By 1940, Hutchins was dismissed by many as attempting ...
In 1960 Franklin D. Murphy, University of Kansas chancellor, assumed the post. Although he was chancellor for just eight years (1960-68), Franklin Murphy is held in the same esteem as a university-builder at UCLA as Sterling and Terman ...
-- Nooses, sheets, and blackface: white racial anxiety and black student presence at six midwest flagship universities, 1882-1937 / Richard M. Breaux. -- A nauseating sentiment, a magical device, or a real insight?
This volume of Perspectives opens with two contrasting perspectives on the purpose of higher education at the dawning of the university age--perspectives that continue to define the debate today.
The first investigation into Dean Spies' performance occurred on July 9, 1941. During this investigation, the Regents and Rainey examined Spies' “tact, diplomacy, and administrative ability in dealing with the Faculty in his charge.
Hence, the responsibility of the multiversity was not only to engage in the challenging task of creating knowledge but also to assist it being “put into use better and faster.”64 Clark Kerr had both the intellectual and ...
Information drawn from Edward B. Fiske, The New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges, 1982-83 (New York: Times Books ... The research share of SU declined from 0.27 percent in 1980 to 0.22 percent in 1990 and 0.13 percent in 2000 (see ...
The volume also contains brief descriptions of twenty recent doctoral dissertations in the history of higher education. This serial publication will be of interest to historians, sociologists, and of course, educational policymakers.
This work provides a critical reexamination of the origin and development of America's land-grant colleges and universities, created by the most important piece of legislation in higher education.
Middlebury College Press / University Press of New England , 1996 ) ; David E. Cronin and John W. Jenkins , The University of Wisconsin : Politics , Depression , and War , 1925–1945 ( Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1994 ) and ...
Private Sectors in Higher Education examines how the tasks of higher education have been divided between public and private institutions, and with what consequences. In doing so, the author analyzes...
This latest volume in Roger Geiger's distinguished series on the history of higher education begins with a rare glimpse into the minds of mid-nineteenth century collegians.