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The American college in the nineteenth century

At the end of the 18th century, just 18 colleges existed in the USA. One hundred years later, there were over 450 American colleges and universities. The role of educational institutions had been utterly transformed. This title provides a fresh view of the development of American colleges.
Print Book, English, 2000
Vanderbilt University Press, Nashville, 2000
History
ix, 363 pages ; 24 cm
9780826513366, 9780826513649, 0826513360, 0826513646
43245491
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
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