Gentlemen and Scholars: College and Community in the "Age of the University"Transaction Publishers - 284 páginas 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 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. |
Índice
11 | |
Rural Piety and Urban Wealth | 31 |
When Professors Had Servants | 55 |
What Knowledge Is of Most Worth? | 79 |
Students as Gentlemen | 95 |
Piety versus Prosperity in the Protestant College | 117 |
Presidential Power and Academic Autonomy | 147 |
Knowledge Fit for Protestant Gentlemen | 177 |
The Side Shows Have Swallowed Up the Circus | 189 |
The Age of the College | 213 |
The College in the Social Order | 237 |
Conclusion | 251 |
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