The Emergence of the American University
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The American university of today is the product of a sudden, mainly unplanned period of development at the close of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. At that time the university, and with it a recognizably modern style of academic life, emerged to eclipse the older, religiously oriented college. Precedents, formal and informal, were then set which have affected the soul of professor, student, and academic administrator ever since. What did the men living in this formative period want the American university to become? How did they differ in defining the ideal university? And why did the institution acquire a form that only partially corresponded with these definitions? These are the questions Mr. Veysey seeks to answer.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226854566
ISBN13:9780226854564
Release Date:March 1970
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:520 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"
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The invention of the modern university
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
By around 1910,according to Veywey, the Old Time College had been reinvented and the modern graduate school tacked onto it. The three functions of the new hybrid were to be teaching, research, and public service. This book is as scholarly and as delightful to read as Samuel Eliot Morison's histories of Harvard.
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