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The rise of the research university : a sourcebook /

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Group Author: Menand, Louis (Editor); Reitter, Paul (Editor); Wellmon, Chad, 1976- (Editor)
Published: The University of Chicago Press,
Publisher Address: Chicago :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Subjects:
Universities and colleges > History > 19th century > Sources.
Universities and colleges > United States > History > 19th century > Sources.
Universities and colleges > Germany > History > 19th century > Sources.
Education, Higher > Germany > Philosophy.
Education, Higher > United States > Philosophy.
Education, Higher > United States > German influences.
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Item Description: Some texts translated from German originals.
Carrier Form: ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [383]-387) and index.
ISBN: 9780226414683 (cloth : alkaline paper) :
022641468X (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226414713 (paperback : alkaline paper)
022641471X (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780226414850 (e-book)
022641485X (e-book)
Index Number: LA181
CLC: G649.1-09
Call Number: G649.1-09/R595
Contents: Report to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Germany /
On the importance of Protestant universities in Germany /
What is universal history and why study it? An inaugural academic lecture /
A plan, deduced from first principles, for an institution of higher learning to be established in Berlin, connected to and subordinate to an academy of sciences /
Lectures on the method of academic study /
On Germany's educational system /
Letters to Thomas Jefferson and Edward Everett /
American colleges and German universities /
On German universities /
German universities: a narrative of personal experience /
The Morrill Act --
The utility of universities /
Opening exercises /
The relations of the national and state governments to advanced education /
The university and democracy /
The new education /
Inaugural address /
Liberty in education /
The new departure in college education, being a reply to president Eliot's defence of it /
On the future of our educational institutions /
Diversity and inclusion: introduction --
Higher schools for girls and their mission: companion essay /
Women at the German universities: letters to the editor of the nation /
Decree on the admission of women to universities --
General education: introduction --
Editorial: a focus for freshmen /
The new freshman course in Columbia College /
General education /
The higher learning in a democracy /

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