Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the Age of the University

ISBN-13: 9781138524255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 318 str.

W. Bruce Leslie

Opis

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

Spis treści

Introduction 1 Four Colleges and Their Communities Part One Colleges and Communities, 1865-1890 2 Rural Piety and Urban Wealth 3 When Professors Had Servants 4 “What Knowledge Is of Most Worth?” 5 Students as Gentlemen Part Two Convergence and Cosmopolitanism, 1890-1917 6 Piety versus Prosperity in the Protestant College 7 Presidential Power and Academic Autonomy 8 Knowledge Fit for Protestant Gentlemen 9 “The Side Shows Have Swallowed Up the Circus” Part Three Emergence of the Modern American College 10 The Age of the College 11 The College in the Social Order

O autorze

Bruce W. Leslie