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After the Emergence: Voluntary Support and the Building of American Research Universities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Roger Geiger
Roger Geiger*
Affiliation:
Program on Non-Profit Organizations, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University
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In 1908 and 1909 the science journalist Edwin E. Slosson visited and described fourteen of what he called “The Great American Universities.” The volume of that title which he published still deserves a place among the most interesting books of this century on higher education. The members of his select group—California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin among the state universities; Columbia, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale from the descendents of the colonial colleges; and Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, and Chicago from the “new” endowed universities—these schools for the most part led other institutions of higher education in numbers of students, the size of their budgets, and the scholarly achievements of their faculties.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Fall 1985 , pp. 369 - 381
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Copyright © 1985 by History of Education Society 

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