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The University-Builders Observe the Colleges

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Hugh Hawkins
Hugh Hawkins*
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Amherst College
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American Colleges during the half century after the Civil War — usually small, under strong religious influence, and located away from cities — have been largely neglected by historians of higher education, although used as foils to set off the merits of new universities. This survey of how early university presidents viewed the colleges cannot right the historiographical balance, but it may reveal certain slogans of our academic Whig history in their original setting and thereby provide critical distance.

Type
The Liberal Arts College in the Age of the University
Information
History of Education Quarterly , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , Winter 1971 , pp. 353 - 362
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Copyright © 1971 History of Education Quarterly 

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