The American college in the nineteenth century / edited by Roger Geiger.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Vanderbilt issues in higher education.
Other Authors: Geiger, Roger L., 1943-
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, 2000.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Vanderbilt issues in higher education.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > United States > History > 19th century.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 19th century.
Physical Description:ix, 363 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : new themes in the history of nineteenth-century colleges / Roger L. Geiger
  • Curriculum and enrollment : assessing the popularity of antebellum colleges / David B. Potts
  • The rights of man and the rites of youth : fraternity and riot at eighteenth-century Harvard / 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" : South Caroline College, the defense of slavery, and the development of secessionist politics / Michael Sugrue
  • Agency, denominations, and the western colleges, 1830-1860 : some connections between evangelicalism and American higher education / James Findlay
  • The era of multipurpose colleges in American higher education, 1850-1890
  • Roger L. Geiger
  • The rise and fall of useful knowledge : higher education for science, agriculture, and the mechanic arts, 1850-1875 / Roger L. Geiger
  • "A salutary rivalry" : the growth of higher education for women in Oxford, Ohio, 1855-1867 / Margaret A. Nash
  • The "superior instruction of women," 1836-1890 / Roger L. Geiger
  • Noah Porter writ large? : reflections on the modernization of American higher education and its critics, 1866-1916 / Peter Dobkin Hall
  • The German model and the graduate school : the University of Michigan and the origin myth of the American university / 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 : the colleges in the 1890s
  • Roger L. Geiger.