Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the "Age of the University," 1865-1917Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992 - 284 páginas Historians have dubbed the period from the Civil War to World War I "the age of the university," suggesting that colleges had become static institutions that were out of touch with American society. Bruce Leslie challenges this view by offering compelling evidence for the continued vitality of colleges, drawn from case studies of four representative colleges from the Middle Atlantic region - Bucknell, Franklin and Marshall, Princeton, and Swarthmore. According to Leslie, nineteenth-century colleges were designed by their founders and supporters to be vehicles of ethnic, denominational, and local identity. The four colleges in this study were representative of the type, 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 therefore found it essential to become dynamic institutions that responded to new currents in American society and higher education. Those that continued to serve cultural distinctiveness and localism did so at the risk of financial sacrifice. Leslie develops his argument from a close study of faculties, curricula, financial constituencies, student bodies, and campus life. |
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