Author: Bucknell UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Alumni catalog, 1851-1926
Author: Bucknell UniversityCentennial History of Bucknell University
Author: Lewis Edwin TheissGentlemen and Scholars
Author: W. Bruce LesliePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351310623
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Historians have dubbed the period from the Civil War to World War I "the age of the university," suggesting that colleges, in contrast to universities, were static institutions out of touch with American society. Bruce Leslie challenges this view by offering compelling evidence for the continued vitality of colleges, using case studies of four representative colleges from the Middle Atlantic region u Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Princeton, and Swarthmore. A new introduction to this classic reflects on his work in light of recent scholarship, especially that on southern universities, the American college in the international context, the experience of women, and liberal Protestantism's impact on the research university. According to Leslie, nineteenth-century colleges were designed by their founders and supporters to be instruments of ethnic, denominational, and local identity. The four colleges Leslie examines in detail here were representative of these types, each serving a particular religious denomination or lifestyle. Over the course of this period, however, these colleges, like many others, were forced to look beyond traditional sources of financial support, toward wealthy alumni and urban benefactors. This development led to the gradual reorientation of these schools toward an emerging national urban Protestant culture. Colleges that responded to and exploited the new currents prospered. Those that continued to serve cultural distinctiveness and localism risked financial sacrifice. Leslie develops his argument from a close study of faculties, curricula, financial constituencies, student bodies, and campus life. The book will be valuable to those interested in American history, higher education, as well as the particular institutions studied. "This book continues the story started by Veysey's Emergence of the American University. Its innovative approach should encourage scholars to study colleges and universities as parts of local communities rather than as freestanding entities. Leslie's findings will substantially revise currently accepted accounts of the history of education in the late nineteenth century."--Louise L. Stevenson, Franklin and Marshall College
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Beginnings of Bucknell University
Author: James Orin OliphantAmerican Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949
Author: R.R. Bowker Company. Department of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Catalogue of Officers and Graduates of Columbia University from the Foundation of King's College in 1754
Author: Columbia UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 1160
Book Description
Biographical Directory of the State of New York, 1900
Author: Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College Together with Lists of the Members of the College Faculty and the Trustees, Officers and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1749-1893
Author: University of Pennsylvania. Society of the AlumniPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
History of Higher Education in Pennsylvania
Author: Saul SackPublisher:
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Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Scientific and technical education. Special aspects of higher education.