The rise of the research university : a sourcebook
Contributor(s): Menand, Louis [editor.]
| Reitter, Paul [editor.] | Wellmon, Chad [editor.].
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BookPublisher: Chicago, USA : The University of Chicago Press , 2017Description: ix, 395 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780226414683 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780226414713 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Universities and colleges -- History -- 19th century -- Sources | -- United States | -- Germany | Education, Higher -- Philosophy | -- German influences | -- Aims and objectivesDDC classification: 378.009 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Some texts translated from German originals.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
German research universities. Report to King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Germany / Friedrich Gedike -- On the importance of Protestant universities in Germany / Johann David Michaelis -- What is universal history and why study it? An inaugural academic lecture / Friedrich Schiller -- Occasional thoughts on German universities in the German sense / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- 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 / J. G. Fichte -- Lectures on the method of academic study / F. W. J. Schelling -- On Germany's educational system / Wilhelm von Humboldt -- Americans abroad and returning. Letters to Thomas Jefferson and Edward Everett / George Ticknor and George Bancroft -- American colleges and German universities / Richard Theodore Ely -- On German universities / Henry Tappan -- German universities: a narrative of personal experience / James M. Hart -- American adaptations. The Morrill Act -- The utility of universities / Daniel Coit Gilman -- Opening exercises / G. Stanley Hall -- The relations of the national and state governments to advanced education / Andrew D. White -- The university and democracy / William Rainey Harper -- Undergraduate education in the university. The new education / Charles William Eliot -- Inaugural address / Noah Porter -- Liberty in education / Charles William Eliot -- The new departure in college education, being a reply to president Eliot's defence of it / James McCosh -- On the future of our educational institutions / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Diversity and inclusion: female university students. Diversity and inclusion: introduction -- Higher schools for girls and their mission: companion essay / Helene Lange -- Women at the German universities: letters to the editor of the nation / J.B.S. and M.F.K -- Decree on the admission of women to universities -- General education. General education: introduction -- Editorial: a focus for freshmen / Charles Sears Baldwin -- The new freshman course in Columbia College / John J. Coss -- General education / Robert Maynard Hutchins -- The higher learning in a democracy / Harry D. Gideonse.
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