The American College in the Nineteenth CenturyRoger L. Geiger Vanderbilt University Press, 2000 - 363 من الصفحات At the end of the eighteenth century, just eighteen colleges existed in the United States, with an average enrollment of fewer than seventy. One hundred years later, over 450 American colleges and universities boasted enrollments up more than one hundredfold. The role of educational institutions in the life of the nation had been utterly transformed. As the bridge between the two eras, the nineteenth-century college has been among the most controversial subjects in the history of American higher education. While earlier historians portrayed the "old-time" college as an impediment to modernization, later scholars affirmed the broad role of the colleges in the education of the American people. The American College in the Nineteenth Century combines the best recent scholarship with an interpretive introduction to provide a fresh view of the development of American colleges. The contributors consider these institutions within four new contexts: first, the dramatic transformation in the college students' experience from oppressive discipline to relative freedom; second, the regional variations among the developing American colleges (for example, a South dominated by state colleges, a Midwest by denominational schools); third, the revolution in the century's third quarter as colleges became multipurpose institutions; and fourth, universities that became dominant by the end of the century, incorporating rather than displacing the colleges. Innovative in its examination of the nature and function of these uniquely American institutions, The American College in the Nineteenth Century is a vital addition to the scholarship of the period. Contributors: David B. Potts, Leon Jackson, Julie Ann Bubolz, Michael Sugrue, James Findlay, Margaret A. Nash, Peter Dobkin Hall, James Turner, Paul Bernard, and Willard J. Pugh. |
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... political ideals and elite status . The college was the Noah's ark of anachronistic political philosophy . Drayton , DeSaussure , and the other gentlemen who helped found the college gathered together conservative eighteenth - century ...
... political parties , dueling and the associated rituals of violence were more important than in other states in identifying those men who were legitimate bearers of political power . " Honor " was the bridge between the politics and the ...
... political theory as in political practice . The defense of slavery was taken up by the alumni , trustees , faculty , and students since early in the history of the college . Henry Laurens Pinckney ( '13 ) , editor of the Charleston ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Assessing the Popularity of Antebellum Colleges | 37 |
The Rights of Man and the Rites of Youth | 46 |
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